Unit 10 Vocabulary

If you were on doctor-prescribed bed rest, you would be required to be __ for extended periods of time.

• sedentary
• invective
• munificent
• gist

Even if you don't understand every single detail, I needed to make sure you understood the __ of Miller's play, The Crucible.

• equanimity
• annotation
• motley
• gist

It is pivotal that you maintain your __ in the state of emergency so that it doesn't lead to paranoia.

• recondite
• debonair
• equanimity
• reprobate

The wicked witch proved that she was __ when she stole the orphan's only toy.

• munificent
• fortuitous
• efficacious
• reprobate

The __ rockstar was always showing up to the red carpet with fashionable tuxedos and flowers for the paparazzi.

• debonair
• imperious
• covert
• invective

The politician launched into an aggressive __ against his opponent in the debate.

• dun
• recondite
• gist
• invective

Rhetorical strategies are ways to be __ and persuade an audience by playing upon emotion, authority, or logic.

• provocative
• recondite
• bedlam
• sedentary

I hope that you __ some knowledge throughout the course of English III.

• munificent
• accrue
• motley
• covert

If you want to get an A on your persuasive essay, you will need to use __ rhetoric to convince me (the reader).

• invective
• sedentary
• covert
• efficacious

Although the teenager was trying to be __ as she snuck into her house after curfew, she stepped on a creaky step and her dog blew her cover as it howled.

• covert
• procrastinate
• bedlam
• fortuitous