World Lit Vocabulary 1

Don't ____________ at me like that; is it really so surprising that I told him the truth?

• gape

• augment

• deploy

• adulterate

She ___________ approached the spider, her heart beating quickly and her guard up.

• warily

• bereft

• verbatim

• insidious

We didn't win the "Cleanest Cabin Award," because ours was a/n _____________ mess of junk and leftover candy wrappers.

• bereft

• unkempt

• ambidextrous

• tentative

Ignoring the cruel ____________ of the opposing team, Jerome found his center and shot the winning basket.

• verbatim

• guise

• gibes

• fortitude

The ______________ receptionist didn't even look at us as she checked us in; I wondered if she were having a bad day.

• dour

• insidious

• tentative

• pliable

Through the crisis, my father remained __________, not yielding to tears or panic as the rest of us seemed to do.

• guise

• augment

• deployed

• stolid

In class systems where one group lives a/n ______________ lifestyle and another lives in poverty, revolutionary ideas are never far.

• opulent

• tentative

• adulterate

• gape

The cult used ___________ practices to trick people into joining it.

• insidious

• stolid

• tentative

• verbatim

Though he'd hope to stay home for at least a year, my father was _________ to Turkey after only four months with us.

• augmented

• fortitude

• deployed

• insidious

____________ of friends after he'd spread that terrible rumor, Javier decided to make amends.

• guise

• bereft

• warily

• adulterate