Right or Wrong?

1. Right or Wrong? By: Jose Badrena Skylar Esparza Bryanna Leal

2. Rules: • Simply read the sentence, and tell whether the vocabulary word used in the sentence is used correctly or not. • If it is not used correctly, say wrong and if it is used correctly, say right.

3. Ascertain • With a bit of research, the student ascertained that some plants can live for weeks without water. • Right

4. Faculty • Benjamin had a faculty for making friends easily. • Right

5. Abstruse • Everyone else in the class understood geometry easily, but John found the subject abstrusely. • Wrong • Correct form: abstruse

6. Ruminate • John decided to ruminate over which car he should purchase. • Right

7. Surmise • After speaking to only one of the students, the teacher was able to surmisedwhat had caused the fight. • Wrong • Correct form: surmise

8. Acumen • Because of his mathematical acuminity, Larry was able to figure out in minutes problems that took other students hours. • Wrong • Correct form: acumen

9. Cerebral • The cerebral cortex is arguably what makes us human. • Right

10. Obfuscate • All his talking about how good it was to be home again only served obfuscativelyhis real motive, which was to borrow money. • Wrong • Correct form: to obfuscate

11. Stymie • We made great time all morning, then were stymied by an accident on the Bay Bridge. • Right

12. Tenet • Equality is the main tenet of a democracy. • Right