ACT Vocabulary Week 4

The _________ for me came during the rugged knockout game between Colombia and England.

• nascent

• nadir

• querulous

• pallid

It was almost 80 years ago that the Wright brothers from Ohio ventured to Kitty Hawk for the uplift its steady winds offered their ______________ passion, airplanes.

• nascent

• quagmire

• pallid

• palliate

The grumpy old man was ____________ in his refusal to let the neighborhood kids retrieve their stray ball from his backyard.

• obfuscate

• nascent

• obdurate

• querulous

The company allegedly didn’t openly communicate results, and at times purposely ________ them, to both consumers and the Food and Drug Administration.

• nadir

• querulous

• obfuscated

• palliated

Don't try to _______________ your constant lying by claiming that everybody lies.

• quagmire

• obdurate

• nascent

• palliate

Fast forward to the March launch of Arizona, a fragrance contained in a hefty crystal bottle the color of a _____________-pink sunset.

• pallid

• querulous

• quagmire

• obfuscate

That was six months ago, when the Defense secretary laughingly dismissed the idea that Iraq was, or could turn into, a _________________.

• querulous

• quagmire

• palliate

• obdurate

There’s a boisterous, _______________ argument in the back room of a bar between the recording artist and his agent.

• obfuscate

• obdurate

• nascent

• querulous