English III Week 4

The unusually ___ climate this year has made a lot of crops die out.

• arid
• futile
• malicious
• impoverished

Sometimes, staying in school may seem ____, but stay with it because a diploma will help you in life.

• futile
• inciting
• contrition
• malicious

If you think Henderson is ____, you should see the parts of rural Africa where they don't even have running water.

• impoverished
• futile
• poignantly
• placidly

It should be easy to understand your constructed responses, so above all, aim for ____ in your writing.

• clarity
• contrition
• devious
• arid

The sleeping dog lay ____ on the couch while I screamed curse words into the phone.

• placidly
• poignantly
• malicious
• impoverished

"I think we need to break up," he said ____ and ran out of the room, crying.

• poignantly
• placidly
• clarity
• inciting

The judges of Salem are worried about ____ a riot if they hang all the prisoners without getting a confession.

• inciting
• malicious
• devious
• futile

Often people are shy or nice on person, but they can be downright ____ online, saying the cruelest things.

• malicious
• devious
• contrition
• arid

If you show genuine ___, you might get a lesser punishment, but if you just say you're sorry, you'll get the full sentence.

• contrition
• poignantly
• placidly
• clarity

Abigail Williams is one of the most ____ characters in all of literature, capable of making anyone believe her outrageous lies.

• devious
• futile
• poignantly
• inciting