Vocab Unit 1 (Jr)

Hospitals take strict precautions to assure that nothing ____________ the blood supply.

• ambidextrous

• augments

• adulterates

• gapes

Individuals who live to be very old may eventually find themselves completely ________ of friends and family.

• bereft

• fortitude

• stolid

• warily

A bugle call is a signal used to ________ troops for inspection, parade, or battle.

• dour

• deploy

• gibe

• warily

First-visitors to Niagara Falls can be expected to ______ at the spectacular sights nature has provided for them.

• gibe

• insidious

• gape

• ambidextrous

Occasionally, a teacher will come across a child who displays _______ abilities when taught to write.

• ambidextrous

• dour

• pliable

• guise

Many couples have to _________ their income in order to pay the mortgage on a new home.

• tetntive

• stolid

• opoulent

• augment

America's earliest settlers faced the hardships of life on the frontier with faith and ________________.

• fortitude

• reiterate

• intimation

• warily

Though all hope of victory had faded, the remaining troops continued to resist the enemy with a ____________ persistence.

• vebatim

• dour

• intimation

• unkempt

The recruits rushed into battle so that no one could ______ at them for cowardice.

• gibe

• guise

• pliable

• tentative

The investigators uncovered an _______ scheme to rob people of their life savings.

• insidious

• opulent

• stolid

• tentative