The Renaissance Period {1485-1660​}

               Unit 7

 

• The synonym and antonym section will look very familar!

• These words will be what you will use in your own sentence. Jettison, Embellish Bestial, Coterie, Convivial, Allay, Misanthrope, Picayune, Raiment, Demur.

 

Sample questions 

1. In beating their prisoner, the guards were guilty of a truly _____ act.

A. Felicitous B. Bestial C. Convivial D. Demur

2. The Girl was caught taking a _______ glance at the test paper of the student sitting next to her.

A.Garish B. Furtive C. Effrontery D. Indigent

3. When Charles V retired to a Spanish Monastery, he exchanged the _____ of a king for the simple habit of a monk.

Convivial B. Raiment C. Furtive D. Allay

4. Since we all agreed that the proposal seemed to offer the best solution to our problem, it was accepted without ________.

Bestial. B. Illusory C. Demur D. Allay

5. Recent developments In that part of the world have intensified rather than _______ our fears of a renewed act.

Allayed B. Garish C. Counterparts D. Embellish

6. Jonathan Swift so came to loathe human folly, vice and hypocrisy that he died a virtual _______.

Raiment B. Picayune C. Misanthrope D. Bestial