Vocabulary Workshop Level E Unit 10 - Completing Sentences

It isn't likely that the school administration will ____ to your recommendation to do away with all examinations and grades.

acquiesce

Retailers who seek to _____ unwary consumers with false claims should feel the full penalties of the law.

allure

"The blinds are hanging ______ because the pull cord is all knotted and tangled," I said.

askew

The _____ personality that had made her so charming and popular was unaffected by the passage of the years.

blithe

You certainly have a right to your opinions, but you have become so ____ that you immediately challenge opinions expressed by anyone else.

contentious

I confess I suffered a twinge of envy when I learned that my rival had won the prize I had _____ so dearly.

coveted

After all my high hopes, i was utterly _____ when the notice arrived that i had failed my driver's test.

crestfallen

In spite of her rain-soaked clothing and ______ appearance, it seemed to me that she had never looked lovelier.

disheveled

A staunch believer in the equality of the sexes, Susan B. Anthony was one of the most effective ______ of women's rights.

exponent

Excessively _____ people usually don't have the imagination to realize that their endless chatter is boring everyone else.

garrulous

The pioneers succeeded in settling the West because they refused to admit that any obstacle, however formidable, was _____.

insuperable

We can all agree that the crime situation in this community is truly ________, but what are we going to do about it?

lamentable

After I heard my new parrot's harsh call, I decided that "Melody," the name I had planned for it, was something of a(n) _____.

misnomer

I do not _____ to be heroic, but I hope I have the nerve to stand up for unpopular ideas that I believe are right.

profess

Now that the football season has ended, don't you think our school's athletes deserve a brief _____ before beginning basketball practice?

respite

For the innumerable crimes and cruelties he had committed, the tyrant had good reason to fear ____.

retribution

Driving a car along those ____ mountain roads at a height of ten thousand feet calls for stronger nerves than I have.

sinuous

The body of the slain hero was accompanied to its final resting place by the _____ strains of a funeral march.

sonorous

With the publication of her famous book "Silent Springs," Rachel Carson moved into the _____ of those seeking to protect our natural environment.

vanguard

He says the he is spending the family fortune "to promote the art of good living," but I consider him no more than a(n) ______.

wastrel