Vocabulary Workshop Level G Unit 2 - Completing the Sentence - Flashcards | StudyHippo.com (2024)

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accost

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As an employee of the local polling service last summer, it was my job to _____________ people on the street and ask their opinions.

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animadversions

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Saying that "people who live in glass houses shouldn't trow stones" is not an effective response to their ________________ on your conduct.

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avid

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My brother is such an _________ collector of toy soldiers that I sometimes think our house has been invaded by a pint-sized army.

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brackish

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To our dismay, we discovered that the water we had worked so hard to bring to the surface was too ____________ for human consumption.

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celerity

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The ______________ with which he accepted our invitation to dinner suggested that he was badly in need of a good meal.

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devious

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On the return path, we cut straight across the meadows rather than take the most _____________ path along the river.

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gambit

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Any book on chess strategy usually discusses the standard opening moves, such as the "knight's ___________."

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halcyon

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We looked back on the ______________ years before war broke out as a kind of "golden age" in our history.

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histrionic

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To be really convincing on stage, an opera singer must possess both vocal and ________________ abilities.

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incendiary

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The tons of ________________ material ignited and turned the waste disposal plant into a roaming inferno.

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maelstrom

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Many a rich southern planter saw all his or her financial resources swallowed up in the _______________ of the civil war.

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myopic

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His face pale, hunched shoulders, and _______________ stare showed that he had spent his life poring over old books and documents.

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overt

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The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was an ____________ act of war.

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pejorative

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The suffix -ling has a ______________ connotation, as in the word princeling, derived from prince.

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propriety

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In Grandmother's Day, standards of ______________ required that a young lady wear a hat and gloves when she went out in public.

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sacrilege

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In the eyes of most Americans, people who burn or spit on our flag are guilty of intolerable ________________.

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summarily

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After the prison had been found guilty of treason, he was led before a firing squad and _________________ executed.

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suppliant

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I stand before you an object _______________, hoping against hope for a sign of your forgiveness.

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talismans

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Down in the main square, a wrinkled old peasant was selling charms and ______________ to ward off the evil eye.

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undulate

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During the rainy season, the highway sank at so many points that its surface began to _______________ like the tracks for a roller coaster.