Vocabulary exercises

1. List 16
potential
respond
vanish
variety
wholesome
Potential—noun; ability, possibility, probability, likeliness, hiddenness
(po/ten/tial)
Po/ten/tial - adjective
 Many people have the potential to be President, but they don’t want to be.
 I believe you all have the potential to complete your goals in a year.
 What do you have the potential to become in your lifetime?
Antonym – unlikeliness, actuality, impossibility, existence, lack
Respond—verb; to reply, to answer, to acknowledge, to counter, to return
(re/spond)
Re/spon/dent—noun (person)
Re/sponse--noun
 When the phone answers, I respond by saying “hello.”
 A good way to respond when someone yells at you is to talk softer.
 How do you respond when someone hurts your feelings?
Antonym – ask, question, request
Vanish—verb; to go out of sight, go away, dematerialize, dissolve, evaporate,
melt
(van/ish)
 Sometimes I wish my problems would just vanish.
 How many times have our pencils vanished from this room?
 What would you like to have vanish to make your life easier?
Antonym – appear, arrive, come, solidify
Variety—noun; mixture, combination, assortment, change, collection, range
(va/ri/e/ty)
Va/ry—verb
 I like a variety of music types.
 A job without variety is boring.
 What variety of music/food/activity do you like?
Antonym – similarity, uniformity, agreement, sameness

2. Wholesome—adj; healthy, good, healthful, pure, beneficial, clean, helpful
(whole/some)
Whole/some/ness—noun
 A wholesome way to get fruit and vegetables is to grow them yourself.
 When people first drank coffee, they thought it was wholesome and would
cure illnesses and diseases.
 What would be a wholesome diet?
Antonym – unhealthy, bad, contaminated, dirty, impure, unwholesome
List 16
potential
respond
vanish
variety
wholesome
Definitions
1. _________________ a number of different kinds
2. _________________tending to improve the character, the mind, or the
body
3. _________________to answer
4. _________________ to disappear from sight
5. _________________ a natural ability that may or may not develop
Fill in the Blank
6. An acorn has the _________________ to be an oak tree.
7. I looked everywhere for my car keys, but they seem to have
_________________ed.
8. Roger has worked in a _________________ of positions, including truck
driver, carpenter, and farmer.
9. Starting a day with exercise is more _________________ that starting the
day with a cigarette.

3. 10.When someone asks us a question, we usually _________________,
even if it’s only to say, “I don’t know.”
Find the Word
11.After watching Pablo play basketball with his friends, the coach told him
he could be a great player.
a. variety
b. awkward
c. potential
12.Jennifer taught her dog to obey whenever he hears her say, “Sit!”
a. respond
b. various
c. vanish
13.The famous pilot Amelia Earhart took off on an around-the-world flight in
1937 and was never seen again.
a. appealed
b. vanished
c. established
14.Andrea went to a teenage dance that was alcohol and tobacco free.
a. wholesome
b. awkward
c. variety
15.For the art project I used crayons, markers, oil paints, and watercolors.
a. wholesome
b. awkward
c. variety
Antonym or Synonym
16. wholesome unnatural Ant Syn
17. variety sameness Ant Syn
18. vanished appeared Ant Syn
19. respond answer Ant Syn
20. potential inability Ant Syn

4. What/Why/How Questions:
21.What would be a wholesome activity for small children?
22.What kind of a variety of types of people in a class would make it more
interesting?
23.Why would a person vanish?
24.Is it OK to respond to a phone call by saying, “What?” How should you
respond?
25.How can a person work toward his or her potential?