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English 8Period:_____
Vocabulary – Unit 9 – Level C
Worksheet 1
Circle the boldface word that more satisfactorily completes each of the following sentences.
- His plain clothing and quiet (prodigy, mien) were not what we expected in a famous Hollywood director.
- Some great composers, such as Mozart and Mendelssohn, have shown an amazing (pertinence, aptitude) for music at a very early age.
- The lecturer is a man who served ten years in prison and is now devoting his life to bringing about reforms in our (penal, predominant) system.
- When the featured singer failed to appear, the (disgruntled, apt) fans demanded their money back.
- Yes, we are still friends, but not as close as we used to be; something has gone (awry, dire) in our relationship.
- The injured quarterback (chafed, defiled) at sitting on the bench while his team was being badly beaten on the field.
- A team as determined to win as ours is will never (capitulate, endow), no matter how many points behind it is in the final moments of a game.
- Alvin York performed such (impunities, prodigies) on the battlefields of France that he was awarded this nation's highest honors.
- During the winter the wind usually blows from the north in that area, but during the summer southerly currents are (predominant, awry).
- What bad taste it is for her to approach people she scarcely knows and (bludgeon, capitulate) her way into private conversations!
- The message of a great work of literature may be as (pertinent, disgruntled) today as it was when it was first written.
- Do you understand how someone can live as a (mien, recluse) even in the midst of a great city?
- My problem was to (fend, bludgeon) off their unwelcome attentions without being openly insulting.
- The college my sister attends is a small one, but it has gained a great deal of (recluse, renown) for the quality of its faculty.
- As we use up the earth's fossil-fuel supplies, we are faced with an increasingly (disarming, dire) need to develop new energy sources.
- The rights guaranteed us by the U.S. Constitution do not permit us to (fend, encroach) on the rights of others.
- The Declaration of Independence mentions a number of "unalienable rights" with which all people "are (endowed, chafed) by their Creator."
- Nature is kind to us in many ways, but we must learn that we cannot violate nature's laws with (impunity, renown).
- I was so (disarmed, chafed) by the way in which he asked for a loan that almost to my surprise I found myself giving him the money.
- He claims to be a patriot, but his appeals to racism are (encroaching, defiling) the great ideals on which this nation was built.