Unit 8B Voc Review

The moon is sometimes faintly ___ in the morning sky.

• perceptible

• plummeted

• proxy

• proclaimed

For her ____ devotion to every good cause in our community, we honor this wonderful woman.

• unflagging

• rankled

• nullified

• stinted

Before going to college, my brother did a _____ as an apprentice radio operator on an oceangoing tanker.

• stint

• proxy

• stoical

• perceptible

I understand that pigeons are ____ by nature, but I still don't like them pecking around our picnic table, looking for crumbs.

• scavengers

• plummets

• stints

• proclaims

President Kennedy bore his pain in such a _____ manner that few people realized how much he suffered from his World War II back injury.

• stoical

• perceptible

• unflagging

• rankled

When the temperature suddenly _____ to below freezing, the hikers made the wise decision to descend the mountain.

• plummeted

• nullified

• proclaimed

• stinted

It is a sad fact of experience that postwar political blunders can often ____ or even reverse the results of battlefield triumphs.

• nullify

• proclaim

• stint

• proxy

Large numbers of stockholders allowed ___ to vote in their place.

• proxies

• scavengers

• perceptibles

• stints

I pretended that being ignored by the "best people in town" meant nothing to me, but actually those snubs _____ deeply.

• rankled

• proclaimed

• nullified

• stinted

In the unforgettable words of the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson ____ to the world that a new nation had been born.

• proclaimed

• rankled

• stinted

• proxied