Unit 9 Sentences

Just when you think you have everything under control, things start going _______. 

• disarmingly
• awry
• aptly
• pertinently

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1A

The golfer used a six iron to ______ the ball out of the sand with one forceful swipe. 

• bludgeon
• chafe
• fend
• encroach

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

Even though the election results started to go against them, the mayor's challengers refused to ______________. 

• chafe
• capitulate
• bludgeon
• endow

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

The friction of returned feeling to their fingers as they ________ their hands together rapidly. 

• defiled
• encroached
• chafed
• capitulated

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Religious wars are often provoked by an enemy who __________ a sacred place like a temple or gravestone.

• chafes

• fends off

• defiles

• encroaches

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

The first reports contained such __________ predictions that the island was evacuated well before the storm. 

• disarming
• penal
• disgrunted
• dire

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1F

CCSS.L.2.1E

His _________ manner masked a wily, competitive nature. 

• disarming
• dire
• apt
• pertinent

The cleaning lady was clearly _______ when we asked her clean the windows, because she had specifically told us she hates polishing glass. 

• disgruntled 
• predominant
• penal
• apt

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1F

CCSS.L.2.1E

The swimming pool our neighbor plans to build ______ on the common right-of-way we share along our south border. 

• defiles
• encroaches
• bludgeons
• endows

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

The philanthropist _______ his alma mater with $100 million to build a new school for social research. 

• capitulated
• endowed
• defiled
• fended off

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4