Vocabulary chapters 3

Valerie received an unexpected inheritance of $1,000. She frittered it away by

• Giving it to her parents to pay household bills.

• Making a down payment on a car.

• Spending it on clothing and lottery tickets.

• Putting it into her college savings fund.

Gene embellished his car by

• Adding fancy hubcaps and a two-tone paint job.

• Changing the oil at least every three thousand miles.

• Not getting rid of soda cans and fast-food wrappers.

• Never having it serviced and letting the engine burn up.

Some people who reach the ___ of their careers find that “it’s lonely at the top.”

• Zealot

• Dissident

• Zenith

• Discretion

To provide contrast, the photographer ___ the men in their dark suits and the woo men in their pale dresses.

• Regressed

• Juxtaposed

• Relinquished

• Subsidized

After a big picnic meal in the warm sun, a(n) ___ calme over me, so I took a nap under a maple tree.

• Zenith

• Maudlin

• Sensory

• Lethargy

Public TV stations hold fund drives to encourage their viewers to help ___ the costs of their programs.

• Fritter

• Regress

• Subsidize

• Relinquish

When my older sister asked whether she and her seven kids could visit us for a week, my mother’s response was so ___ that I’m not sure if she said yes or no.

• Ambiguous

• Inadvertent

• Sporadic

• Ubiquitous

Choose “C” if the italicized word is used correctly. Choose “I” if it is used incorrectly.

Meeting my brother in the cafeteria at lunchtime was inadvertent. We had arranged the night before to meet for lunch.

• C

• I

Choose “C” if the italicized word is used correctly. Choose “I” if it is used incorrectly.

During my childhood, we made sporadic visits to my grandparents’ house. In fact, we went to see them every Sunday afternoon.

• C

• I

Choose the word that is the antonym of the Boldfaced word.

Inane

• Inexpensive

• Sensible

• Silly