Vocabulary Workshop Enriched Edition level H unit 9 sentences

Once I created an inexact ________ for the new dancing video game, O became inexplicably motivated to exercise.

Avatar

In the dreamy _______ of their first love, nothing I might have said would have had the slightest effect on them.

Beatitude

I consider the vogue use of "hopefully" illogical, inept, and pretentious; it has become my linguistic _______.

Bete Noire

The atmosphere of mistrust and hostility did not ________ well for the outcome of the peace talks.

Bode

In David Copperfield, Dickens described with heartbreaking realism the period of his own childhood that he spent toiling in a(n) _______ cellar.

Dank

The speaker emphasized that in the modern world the barriers between different groups are rapidly being broken down and that we must try to think in truly _______ terms.

Ecumenical

I think it was terribly naive of us to expect to get a fair hearing from such ______ partisans of the opposing party.

Fervid

Was it our imagination, or was the room still ______ with the smell of stale cigar smoke?

Fetid

Falstaff is a behemoth personality, whose _______ appetite, especially for sack and sleep, never seem to be satiated.

Gargantuan

The lame-duck president looked back with nostalgia on the power he had wielded during the _______ of his administration.

Heyday

THe memory of my ghastly blunder and of the harm it had done to innocent people weighed on my spirit like a(n) _______.

Incubus

It was a subject of heated debate in the early 19th century whether the federal government should play any part at all in building the ____________ to support the fledgling American economy.

Infrastructure

Like most people, I enjoy flattery, but I can't be _______ into doing something that in my heart I know is wrong.

Inveigle

May I say, in all modesty that i don't deserve such _______ just because i was all-state in football and led my class academically.

Kudos

I was happy enough when she agreed to go to prom with me, but her suggestion that we use her car was and unexpected ______.

Lagniappe

After I read one of your _________ and repetitive reports, I always have the feeling that you have never heard of the expression "less is more"

Prolix

As the _______ of one of the great violinists of our times, she has had an unrivaled opportunity to develop her musical talents.

Protege

Far better to receive sincere criticism, no matter how severe, than to endure the groveling adulation of a(n) _______.

Sycophant

To maintain that, because human beings are aggressive animals, they will always be involved in conflicts seems to me a mere _______.

Tautology

At the risk of losing the election, I refused to ________ to the fleeting passions and prejudices of a small part of the electorate.

Truckle