Context Clues 3.1

If you make __________when you have harmed someone, you show that you are sorry by doing something to please them.

• amends
• consent

If you ___________ the truth about something, you find out what it is, especially by making a deliberate effort to do so.

• vex
• defer
• ascertain
• conjecture

What is a synonym for conjecture ?

• deal
• postpone
• guess
• establish

If you give your ____________ to something, you give your permission to do it.

• establishment
• emphasis
• attention
• consent

If you ______________ an event or action, you arrange for it to happen at a later date, rather than immediately or at the previously planned time.

• establish
• ascertain
• defer
• repay

An _________________ response or statement is one made in a forceful way because the speaker feels very strongly about what they are saying.

• emphatic
• embarrassing
• universal
• postponed

If you __________ contact with someone, you start to have contact with them.

• defer
• amend
• emphasize
• establish

If you describe someone as ___________, you mean that they have some extremely good or special quality.

• suspicious
• extraordinary
• diffident
• ferocious

Someone who is ____________takes great care to do what is fair, honest, or morally right.

• sarcastic
• scrupulous
• universal
• deferential

__________ is the ability to avoid upsetting or offending people by being careful not to say or do things that would hurt their feelings.

• consent
• tact