Vocabulary Acquisition Weeks 7 and 8

I did what little I could to ___________ my guilt.

• Listless

• Dissonance

• Scrupulous

• Assuage

When the captain realized his efforts to steer his ship were _____________________, he commanded his officers to release the lifeboats.

• Pedestrian

• Avarice

• Futile

• Assuage

The rugby player enjoyed the ____________ of his fans.

• Adulation

• Cacaphous

• Dissonance

• Philistine

Mr. Krab's ____________ for money caused him to work his employees to the bone for little pay.

• Scrupulous

• Dissonance

• Philistine

• Avarice

I don't mean to come across as _________, but I am certain I am correct on this.

• Philistine

• Dogmatic

• Listless

• Pedestrian

Dean took a deep breath and crept a few ____________ steps into the darkness.

• Dissonance

• Tentative

• Avarice

• Assuage

The frequency of beats giving maximum _________________ rises as we rise higher in the musical scale, and falls as we descend.

• Dissonance

• Futile

• Assuage

• Philistine

The troops, meanwhile, stood growing ______________ and dispirited

• Assuage

• Pedestrian

• Listless

• Avarice

I was still excessively _________ about everything I wrote.

• Assuage

• Philistine

• Scrupulous

• Dissonance

The ______ said the program is wasted money.

• Philistine

• Listless

• Scrupulous

• Dissonance