Examples Vocabulary (A)

Turtles ______ their eggs after they lay them and never see their young.

v. abandon

Rationing is a system for ______ scarce resourses

v. alloting

Jewelers are sometimes asked to _______ jewelry for insurance purposes.

v. appraise

A person suffering from claustrophobia has an _______to confined spaces

n. aversion

Anthrax is generally an ________ of sheep and cattle, but it can also be transmitted to humans.

n. aversion

I was told that the librarians here were not very helpful, but I found them quite _____.

adj. accommodating

Burning rubber produces an ________ smoke.

adj. acrid

Penicillin can have an _______ effect on a person who is allergic to it.

adj. adverse

Scholarships allow some students from less ________ families to attend college

adj. affluent

Acrobats must be extremely ________

adj. agile

Readers in the eighteenth century found Thomas Paine´s pamphlet Common Sense extremely persuasive, in part because it contained many _____ quotations.

adj. apt

Mountain climbing is an ______ sport

adj. ardous

Southern Arizona has an_________climate

adj. arid

Some lakes are natural, but others are _____ formed by damming rivers or streams.

adj. artificial

Perhaps the most ________ evolutionary development in penguins is a gland that can remove salt from seawater

adj. astonishing

Lawrence Gilman is admired for his _____scholarly musical criticism.

adj. astute