Vocab 6 practice sentences

Since my sister has chosen to ________ from eating red meat, I will not be serving any beef dishes at my party.

• abstain

• haughtiness

• repudiate

• plethora

The coach blames the negative attitudes that several members of the team have been displaying on the field for the ______ on their winning record.

• enshroud

• blight

• credulous

• tedium

___________ people can often be easy targets for scams.

• plethora

• enshroud

• Credulous

• abstain

A dense fog _______ the bridge spanning the harbor.

• haughtiness

• credulous

• obfuscate

• enshrouded

Because she was not nice, the _________ girl had few friends.

• haughty

• lachrymose

• blighted

• credulous

When I watch television shows about people dying from cancer, I become very _________.

• enshroud

• lachrymose

• tedium

• abstain

Because I am a sympathetic teacher, I avoid using language which will ___________ my students.

• haughtiness

• enshroud

• obfuscate

• tedium

I don't see why my mother wants more shoes when she already has a __________of them.

• abstain

• enshroud

• lachrymose

• plethora

The company will _________ any claims of negligence.

• repudiate

• obfuscate

• plethora

• tedium

The yawning student walked out of class when he could no longer bear the __________ of the professor’s lecture

• enshroud

• tedium

• credulous

• obfuscate