Vocabulary List Preliminary Papers 2015

I hope that everyone has had a good break! My P6 students have started on their Preliminary Papers and I have prepared the Vocabulary list below. The words are taken from the Vocabulary MCQ section of the papers.

Vocabulary List Preliminary Papers 2015 – Catholic High One

1. provoke – stimulate or incite (someone) to do or feel something, especially by arousing anger in them.
2. evoke – bring or recall (a feeling, memory, or image) to the conscious mind.
3. invoke – to mention (someone or something) in an attempt to make people feel a certain way or have a certain idea in their mind
4. invoke – to make use of (a law, a right, etc.)
5. appease – to make (someone) pleased or less angry by giving or saying something desired
6. rouse – to wake (someone) from sleep
7. wane – to become smaller or less : to decrease in size, amount, length, or quality

Vocabulary List Preliminary Papers 2015 – RGPS

1. ruckus – a noisy argument, fight, etc.
2. thwarted – to prevent (someone) from doing something or to stop (something) from happening
3. exacerbated – to make (a bad situation, a problem, etc.) worse
4. impeded – to slow the movement, progress, or action of (someone or something)
5. infallible – not capable of being wrong or making mistakes
6. indispensable – extremely important and necessary

Vocabulary List Preliminary Papers 2015 – SCGS

1. annihilate – to destroy (something or someone) completely
2. congregate – to come together in a group or crowd
3. marred – to ruin the beauty or perfection of (something) : to hurt or damage the good condition of (something)
4. blighted – spoil, harm or destroy
5. festooned – a long chain or strip of something (such as flowers or cloth) that is hung as a decoration
6. rotund – fat and round
7. corpulent – having a large bulky body
8. emaciated – to cause to lose flesh so as to become very thin
9. contemptuously – feeling or showing deep hatred or disapproval : feeling or showing contempt

Vocabulary List Preliminary Papers 2015 – Henry Park

1. overzealous – excessively enthusiastic
2. contender – a person who tries to win something in a contest; especially : a person who has a good chance of winning
3. forfeited – something that is lost or given up as punishment or because of a rule or law
4. accredited – to say that something is good enough to be given official approval

Vocabulary List Preliminary Papers 2015 – Rosyth

1. pledged – a serious promise or agreement/ a promise to give money
2. depleted – to use up the supply
3. substantial – large in amount, size, or number
4. weighty – very important and serious
5. infinite – having no limits

Vocabulary List Preliminary Papers 2015 – CHIJ

1. prevailed – to get control or influence
2. oversight – a mistake made because someone forgets or fails to notice something
3. negligence – failure to take the care that a responsible person usually takes : lack of normal care or attention

Vocabulary List Preliminary Papers 2015 – Maha Bodhi

1. intense – very great in degree : very strong
2. agonising – extremely painful
3. inventive – having or showing an ability to think of new ideas and methods : creative or imaginative
4. innovative – having new ideas about how something can be done
5. loomed – a frame or machine for interlacing at right angles two or more sets of threads or yarns to form a cloth

Vocabulary List Preliminary Papers 2015 – NYPS

1. lures – an appealing or attractive quality
2. fabricate – to make or build (something)
3. negligible – very small or unimportant
4. ambling – to walk slowly in a free and relaxed way

Vocabulary List Preliminary Papers 2015 – MGS

1. revoked – to officially cancel the power or effect of (something, such as a law, license, agreement, etc.) : to make (something) not valid
2. revamped – to make (something) better or like new again
3. afflicting – to cause pain or suffering to (someone or something)
4. inflicting – to cause someone to experience or be affected by (something unpleasant or harmful)
5. hoax – to trick or deceive (someone)
6. gimmick – something that is not serious or of real value to attract people’s attention (especially to buy something)
7. indifferent – not interested in or concerned about something

Vocabulary List Preliminary Papers 2015 – Nan Hua

1. versatile – able to do many different things
2. vigilant – carefully noticing problems or signs of danger
3. exert – to use (strength, ability, etc.)
4. enforce – to make (a law, rule, etc.) active or effective : to make sure that people do what is required by (a law, rule, etc.)

Vocabulary List Preliminary Papers 2015 – ACS

1. tyranny – to make (a law, rule, etc.) active or effective : to make sure that people do what is required by (a law, rule, etc.)
2. benevolence – disposition to do good
3. eliciting – to get (a response, information, etc.) from someone
4. integrating – to combine (two or more things) to form or create something
5. conscientious – very careful about doing what you are supposed to do : concerned with doing something correctly