English 11: Practice 2

English 11: Practice 2

expostulate:

v.) to attempt to dissuade someone from some course or decision by earnest reasoning 

hackneyed:

adj.) used so often as to lack freshness or originality 

hiatus:

n.) a gap, opening, break (in the sense of having an element missing)

innuendo:

n.) a hint, indirect suggestion, or reference (often in a derogatory sense)

intercede:

v.) to plead on behalf of someone else: to serve as a third party or go-between in a disagreement

Multiple Choice

Shakespeare's Hamlet finds it useless to __________________ with his mother for siding with his stepfather.

• intercede

• expostulate

• hiatus

Multiple Choice

The Great Gatsby tells a universal story without being marred by _______________ prose.

• intercede

• hiatus

• hackneyed

Multiple Choice

She will ______________ in the dispute between the two children, and soon they will be playing happily again.

• innuendo

• intercede

• expostulate

Multiple Choice

Those lacking the facts or afraid of reprisals often tarnish an enemy's reputation by use of _______________.

• innuendo

• hiatus

• ed

Multiple Choice

I was awakened not by a sudden sound but by a ____________ in the din of traffic.

• hackneyed

• hiatus

• expostulate

Multiple Choice

synonyms: banal, trite, commonplace, corny

antonym: new, fresh, novel, original

• hiatus

• hackneyed

Multiple Choice

synonym: protest, remonstrate, complain

• expostulate

• intercede

Multiple Choice

synonym: intervene, mediate

• innuendo

• intercede

Multiple Choice

synonyms: insinuation, intimation

antonym: direct statement

• innuendo

• intercede

Multiple Choice

synonym: pause

antonym: continuity, continuation

• hiatus

• innuendo