Vocabulary Workshop Level D Unit 2

If a business's reputation has been tarnished or ruined, it has been:

• improved

• advertised

• sullied

• misrepresented

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Someone who decides to move ahead without fear or hesitation is:

• uninformed

• unflinching

• insensitive

• unready

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Which of the follwoing is the OPPOSITE of distinguished, or above average?

• confused

• mediocre

• outstanding

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If you are visiting a desert for the first time, the landscape might seem:

• alien

• familliar

• lush, or full of life

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The OPPOSITE of homely, or unattractive is:

• scruffy

• comely

• dreadful

• uncomfortable

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Another word for recompense, or repay is:

• compare

• compensate

• falsify

• conserve

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When my group first chose the American justice system as the topic of our presentation, all of us had a serious attitude. As we began brainstorming, however, it became increasingly clear that television courtroom dramas were acting as fodder for just about every situation that we proposed.

Fodder is used to refer to:

• the name of a television show

• a source of ideas

• a set of rules

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Kelly suggested we act out a trial focused on a lucrative lawsuit with millions of dollars at stake.

Lucrative means:

• unimportant

• serious

• profitable

• complex

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Noah was inspired to describe an entire set of untrustworthy and dissolute witnesses whose greedy motives could be exposed during an intense cross-examination.

Dissolute is used to:

• convey a sense of corruption

• suggest that the witnesses are completely honest

• suggest that the witnesses are uncooperative

• clarify a legal term

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By the time the jury, made up of a group of our classmates, adjourned to reach a decision, they would certainly have seen plenty of colorful characetrs and heard many questionable statements.

Adjourned means:

• replaced some of its members

• moved to another room

• asked for clarification

• agreed loudly

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