vocabulary exercises

1. List 57
capability
content
duplicate
immense
industrious
Capability – noun; ability to do something, ability, potential, competence, talent
(ca/pa/bi/li/ty)
Ca/pa/ble – adj
Ca/pa/bly – adv
 Teachers should have the capability to help people understand new things.
 Michael Jackson had a great capability to sing and dance.
 What do you have great capability for?
Antonym – inability, incapability, incompetence, lack
Content – adj; happy, pleased, satisfied, fulfilled
(con/tent)
 People are usually content when they are on vacation.
 Having a good attitude can help you be content.
 What makes you content?
Antonym – unhappy, dissatisfied, discontented, upset
Duplicate – verb; to copy, photocopy, to make alike, to make the same
(du/pli/cate)
Du/pli/ca/tion – noun
 We have copy machines to duplicate our important documents.
 You should always have a duplicate of your passport in a secure place at home
when you are traveling.
 What is something you want to duplicate?
Antonym – make different, mismatch, be unequal, be unlike
Immense – adj; huge, extremely large, unusually large, colossal, monstrous,
monumental
(im/mense)
Im/mense/ly – adv
 You will have an immense advantage with a degree over people who do not
finish high school.
 What is an immense accomplishment you have achieved so far in your life?
 Have you ever been immensely homesick?
Antonym – small, tiny, little, mini, puny
Industrious – hard-working, conscientious, productive, energetic, diligent
(in/dus/tri/ous)
In/dus/tri/ous/ly – adv

2.  The industrious students are here on time with their notebooks open and pencils
out.
 If you watch ants, you can see how industrious they are.
 What is an industrious behavior you have to show you are doing well on your
job?
Antonym – lazy, passive, asleep, slow, inactive
capability
content
duplicate
immense
industrious
Definitions
1. _____________ to make or perform an exact copy of; to repeat
2. ______________ extremely large
3. ______________ a talent or ability
4. _______________ satisfied; happy with what you have
5. ______________ hard-working; busy accomplishing something
Fill in the Blank
6. Every day you have the ______________ to make someone else happy.
7. This year, the team will try to _______________ its victory at last year’s Super
Bowl.
8. I offered Fatima the nicer chair, but she was ________________ where she was.
9. The principal told the students she was happy they were so ________________.
10.For Grandma’s ninetieth birthday, we ordered an ________________ cake.
Select the Word

3. 11.Juan sat into his favorite chair and smiled happily.
a. immense
b. realistic
c. content
12.After school, the kids raked leaves, took out the garbage, and did the dishes.
a. realistic
b. industrious
c. capability
13.Although he has never had a music lesson, John plays the piano very well.
a. duplicate
b. capability
c. presentable
14.The rat looked more like a cat than a rat.
a. presentable
b. immense
c. duplicated
15.The baseball player pitched a perfect game two days in a row.
a. presentable
b. immense
c. duplicated
Antonyms
16.duplicate 17. Capability
a. fool a. inability
b. grow b. power
c. new c. guilt
d. repeat d. pride
18.content
a. happy c. unhappy
b. cozy d. rude

4. 19. Immense 20. industrious
a. large a. simple
b. soothing b. lazy
c. sensible c. frightened
d. tiny d. hard-working
When/How/What/Why Questions:
21. When is it not okay to duplicate something?
22. How do you find out what your capabilities are?
23. When are you content?
24. What do you think is an immense debt? Do you think many people have
immense debts in the U.S.? Why?
25. Should an industrious worker be paid more than other workers? Why or why
not?