TEWWG Exam
 Short answer, short essay, matching
 Part 1: Reading Check. Plot-based questions.
 Part 2: People, Places
 Who’s who?
 Quote matching (Who said what…)
 Where events took place
 Part 3: Analysis (May use annotations)
 Excerpts/quotes/passages to analyze & explain.
 Symbols to analyze & explain.
 Relationships to analyze & explain
A Brief Introduction
Admonish
 (v.)- to caution or advise against something; to scold
mildly; to remind of a duty
 Synonyms: warn, call on the
carpet
 Antonyms: praise, pat on the
back
 Mrs. McMahon admonished the
student for picking his nose and
eating it.
Breach
 (n.) An opening, gap, rupture; rift; a violation or
infraction; (v.) to create an opening, break through
 Antonyms- close, seal
 The city of New Orleans flooded because of a breach
in the levees.
Brigand
 (n.) a bandit, robber, outlaw, highwayman
 The brigand stole all of Mrs. McMahon’s books.
Circumspect
 (adj.) careful, cautious
 Synonyms- wary, prudent, guarded
 Antonyms- incautious, rash, reckless, heedless
 After Mrs. McMahon admonished him, the student
was always circumspect and careful.
Commandeer
 (v.) to seize for military or official use
 Synonyms- take over, requisition, expropriate
 If we ever have a zombie apocalypse, public buildings
will probably be commandeered and made into “safe
zones.”
Cumbersome
 (adj.) clumsy, hard to handle; slow moving
 Synonyms- unwieldy, ponderous
 Antonyms- manageable, easy to handle
 Sometimes packages aren’t heavy, they are just
cumbersome.
Deadlock
 (n.) a standstill resulting from the opposition of two equal
forces or fractions; (v.) to bring to such a standstill
 Synonyms- standoff, stalemate
 Antonyms- Agreement, accord, breakthrough
 Mrs. McMahon and the student reached a deadlock
during their argument about grades.
Debris
 (n.) scattered fragments, wreckage
 Synonyms- rubble, detritus, flotsam and jetsam
 In TEWWG, the roads were flooded with water,
bodies, and debris.
Diffuse
 (v.) to spread or scatter freely or widely; (adj.) wordy,
long winded, or unfocused
 Synonyms- disperse, rambling, verbose, prolix
 Antonyms- concentrate, brief, concise, succinct
 The speech was so diffuse that no one knew what the
point was.
Dilemma
 (n.) a difficult or perplexing situation or problem
 Synonyms- predicament, quandary, pickle, bind
 Antonym- cinch
 Judy faced a dilemma every morning: to get up, or not
to get up?
Efface
 (v.) to wipe out; to keep oneself from being noticed
 Synonyms- blot out, erase, obliterate, expunge
 Shy people are self-effacing.
Muddle
 (v.) to make a mess of; muddle through: to get by (n.) a
hopeless mess
 Synonyms- jumble, mess up, confusion, disorder
 Antonyms- orderliness, tidiness, neatness
 Lots of students are overwhelmed in their first week,
and they just muddle through.
Opinionated
 (adj.) stubborn and often unreasonable in holding to one’s
own ideas, having a closed mind
 Synonyms- obstinate, pigheaded, inflexible
 Antonyms- open-minded, reasonable
 Donald Trump is quite opinionated.
Perennial
 (adj.) lasting for a long time, persistent; (n.) a plant
that lives for many years
 Synonyms- enduring, recurring
 Antonyms- brief, short-lived, fleeting, ephemeral
 Some people consider standardized testing a
perennial problem.
Predispose
 (v.) to incline to beforehand
 Synonyms- make susceptible to
 Antonyms- immunize against, shield from
 I am predisposed to vomiting anytime my stomach
hurts.
Relinquish
 (v.) to let go, give up
 Synonyms- surrender, abandon
 Antonyms- hold on to, keep, retain, cling to
 Mrs. McMahon likes to relinquish control and let
students lead discussions
Salvage
 (v.) to save from fire or shipwreck; (n.) property thus
saved
 Synonyms- rescue, recover, retrieve, reclaim
 Antonyms- abandon, scrap, junk
 I hope you can salvage your grade after bombing that
test!
Spasmodic
 (adj.) sudden and violent but brief, fitful, intermittent
 Synonyms-irregular, occasional
 Antonyms- steady, continuous, chronic
 The students didn’t know that by asking Mrs.
McMahon to dance they would witness scary,
spasmodic movements.
Spurious
 (adj.) not genuine, not true, not valid
 Synonyms- false
 There are countless stories about princes and
princesses with spurious origins.
Unbridled
 (adj.) uncontrolled, lacking in restraint
 Synonyms- unrestrained, unchecked
 Antonyms- restrained, held in check, muted
 At Penn State games this fall, I plan to show
unbridled enthusiasm.