Name ________________________________________ Date _______________________ Period _________
Lesson 13
ROOT: FLU Latin “to flow”
1.
AFFLUENT Wealthy and privileged; well-to-do
syn: prosperous
ant: impoverished
2.
SUPERFLUOUS Additional to what is necessary; extra
syn: nonessential, excessive ant: crucial
3.
MELLIFLUOUS Sweetly flowing or sounding
syn: harmonious
ROOT: LEV Latin “light”
4.
LEAVEN To make less heavy or less serious
syn: lighten
5.
LEVITY Lack of seriousness; jolly or joking manner syn: jolly
ant: gloominess
6.
ALLEVIATE To make less painful or dangerous
ant: aggravate
syn: ease
ant: dampen
ROOT: LAPS Latin “slip, slide”
7.
ELAPSE To slip away; go by
8.
COLLAPSE Complete failure and ruin
9.
RELAPSE Return of an old illness or bad habit
syn: setback
ROOT: CED Latin “to move along, to go”
10.
RECEDE To move back or away from
syn: retreat
ant: advance
11.
CONCESSION Something given up or yielded
syn: admission
ant: refusal
12.
CEDE To surrender
syn: yield
ant: withhold
Lesson 13: Name ______________________________________ Period ________
_______________ 1. Alice has developed a home remedy which will ___ the symptoms of a bad cold.
_______________ 2. No matter how Angela tried to ___ the mood, everyone seemed determined to be miserable.
_______________ 3. The two nations fought over the land for many years before one finally ___(d) it to the other.
_______________ 4. One paragraph in my article was ___, since the other paragraphs already covered the material.
_______________ 5. Many years had ___(d), and the farmer was eager to see his homeland again.
_______________ 6. The speaker’s ___ seemed out of place at the funeral.
_______________ 7. In the more ___ neighborhoods of the city, it is not unusual for people to have three or four
luxury cars.
_______________ 8. Since I decided to give up chocolate, I have not had a single ___.
_______________ 9. His parents have already made many ___(s), so now they are refusing to give him anything else.
_______________10. Some people fear the tax increase will bring about the ___ of the economy.
_______________11. As the ocean waves ___(d), the people on the shore saw a strange object lying on the sand.
_______________12. The ___ notes of Meg’s song reminded Jack of a gently running brook.
_______________13. To ___ his sister’s burden, Will helped her with the yard work.
_______________14. In ___ tones, Melvin recited the poems he had written for English class.
_______________15. The file cabinet was stuffed with ___ papers that hadn’t been needed in years.
_____ 16. During the uprising, the ___ upper class was forced to ___ both rights and property to the much larger
group of poor and middle-class citizens.
A. mellifluous; alleviate
C. superfluous; leaven
B. affluent; recede
D. affluent; cede
_____ 17. Although some of his jokes were off-topic or ___, overall, Josh did a good job of ___ the mood.
A. mellifluous; elapsing
C. affluent; alleviating
B. superfluous; leavening
D. superfluous; ceding
_____ 18. After a short time had ___, the soldier on guard saw the enemy troops ___ into the forest and disappear.
A. relapsed; collapse
C. superfluous; cede
B. relapsed; recede
D. elapsed; recede
_____ 19. Because Reggie would make no ___ about his diet, he had a ___ and became ill again.
A. superfluous; concession
C. collapse; concession
B. concession; relapse
D. levity; collapse
_____ 20. Although the club owner did not take the singer seriously at first, the ___ in his voice disappeared as he
heard her ___ song.
A. levity; mellifluous
C. levity; affluent
B. concession; affluent
D. concession; superfluous