WW 13 Context Clues

The roadside stand was an ______ to the orchard's pick-your-own apples business.

• adjunct

• foment

• pretext

• dilemma

His temperate tone ___________ inflammatory content of his speech.

• diverse

• belied

• insurrection

• mandatory

An entire generation recoiled in horror from the _______ of World War I.

• dilemma

• mitigate

• flout

• carnage

His _____ was whether to go to his daughter's play or his son's recital, both of which were on the same night.

• belie

• diverse

• dilemma

• pretext

The fair had a ________ selection of food; everything from Italian and French to Ethiopian and Indian cuisine was available.

• belie

• diverse

• foment

• mandatory

The goal of the literacy project is to ________ illiteracy.

• eradicate

• foment

• stalwart

• somnolent

Miranda _______ convention by wearing jeans to graduation.

• belied

• carnaged

• fomented

• flouted

In the 1960's, anti-war activists _____ student demonstrations and strikes that shook the Johnson and Nixon administrations.

• mitigated

• eradicated

• carnaged

• fomented

According to Lincoln, the Confederacy's withdrawal from the Union was an ___________.

• insurrection

• dilemma

• pretext

• carnage

Courses in English, math, science are _______ for all first-year students.

• foment

• mandatory

• belied

• pretext