PAX SCIENCE NLN COMPREHENSIVE ANSWERS AND
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔imperiled - ✔✔endangered
✔✔enfranchised - ✔✔to set free
✔✔exploited - ✔✔to take advantage of
✔✔enlightened - ✔✔free from ignorance and false ideas
✔✔Acronyms - ✔✔Words formed from the first letter of a series of words
Ex: NASA = National Aeronautics (and) Space Administration.
DIY = Do It Yourself.
✔✔Synonyms - ✔✔words that have similar meanings
✔✔Homonyms - ✔✔Two words that are spelled alike but have different meanings.
✔✔Antonyms - ✔✔A word that means the opposite of another word.
For example, "hot" is the antonym of "cold."
✔✔assailable - ✔✔vulnerable
✔✔morbid - ✔✔gruesome; awful
✔✔hollow - ✔✔empty
✔✔rescindable - ✔✔being revoked , taken back
✔✔An opening that permits light to enter is called: - ✔✔an aperture
, ✔✔Ratified - ✔✔approved; confirmed; legalized
✔✔betrothed - ✔✔engaged
✔✔emancipated - ✔✔to set free
✔✔reimbursed - ✔✔to pay back
✔✔diligently - ✔✔earnestly, carefully,
✔✔cooperatively - ✔✔in a way that involves mutual assistance in working towards a
common goal
✔✔reluctantly - ✔✔unwillingly
✔✔One of the benefits of a college education is learning how to: - ✔✔cogitate
✔✔cogitate - ✔✔think deeply about something; meditate or reflect
✔✔emanate - ✔✔to come forth; to send forth
✔✔prevaricate - ✔✔to lie or deviate from the truth
✔✔capitulate - ✔✔to end resistance, give up, surrender, throw in the towel
✔✔scintillating - ✔✔sparkling
✔✔caustic - ✔✔burning
✔✔discerning - ✔✔mentally quick and observant; having insight
✔✔tepid - ✔✔lukewarm
✔✔stale - ✔✔not fresh
✔✔The investors of a lumber market, which included some governmental officials, met
in private to make strategic plans to overturn the current governing legislation. Such a
group is called a: - ✔✔cabal
✔✔aberration - ✔✔-something that differs from the norm
-deviation from the course
✔✔abjured - ✔✔renounced
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔imperiled - ✔✔endangered
✔✔enfranchised - ✔✔to set free
✔✔exploited - ✔✔to take advantage of
✔✔enlightened - ✔✔free from ignorance and false ideas
✔✔Acronyms - ✔✔Words formed from the first letter of a series of words
Ex: NASA = National Aeronautics (and) Space Administration.
DIY = Do It Yourself.
✔✔Synonyms - ✔✔words that have similar meanings
✔✔Homonyms - ✔✔Two words that are spelled alike but have different meanings.
✔✔Antonyms - ✔✔A word that means the opposite of another word.
For example, "hot" is the antonym of "cold."
✔✔assailable - ✔✔vulnerable
✔✔morbid - ✔✔gruesome; awful
✔✔hollow - ✔✔empty
✔✔rescindable - ✔✔being revoked , taken back
✔✔An opening that permits light to enter is called: - ✔✔an aperture
, ✔✔Ratified - ✔✔approved; confirmed; legalized
✔✔betrothed - ✔✔engaged
✔✔emancipated - ✔✔to set free
✔✔reimbursed - ✔✔to pay back
✔✔diligently - ✔✔earnestly, carefully,
✔✔cooperatively - ✔✔in a way that involves mutual assistance in working towards a
common goal
✔✔reluctantly - ✔✔unwillingly
✔✔One of the benefits of a college education is learning how to: - ✔✔cogitate
✔✔cogitate - ✔✔think deeply about something; meditate or reflect
✔✔emanate - ✔✔to come forth; to send forth
✔✔prevaricate - ✔✔to lie or deviate from the truth
✔✔capitulate - ✔✔to end resistance, give up, surrender, throw in the towel
✔✔scintillating - ✔✔sparkling
✔✔caustic - ✔✔burning
✔✔discerning - ✔✔mentally quick and observant; having insight
✔✔tepid - ✔✔lukewarm
✔✔stale - ✔✔not fresh
✔✔The investors of a lumber market, which included some governmental officials, met
in private to make strategic plans to overturn the current governing legislation. Such a
group is called a: - ✔✔cabal
✔✔aberration - ✔✔-something that differs from the norm
-deviation from the course
✔✔abjured - ✔✔renounced
