EngII_H_Vocab4

Even as a child, Bob Ross showed a natural ___________ for painting happy trees.

• expiation

• sangfroid

• acculturation

• proclivity

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

The presidential debates were defined by _____________ comments by which all parties discredited the other.

• tenuous

• vitriolic

• inadvertent

• seditious

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

People often ____________ the stereotype of hipster to me because I have a beard...and I'm named Beard.

• expiate

• enjoin

• peculate

• ascribe

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

We have to ____________ buying gifts; Christmas is almost here.

• expedite

• expiate

• peculate

• wheedle

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

My children wheedle me incessantly to take them to Dolly Wood.

• peculate

• expiate

• wheedle

• commiserate

After school the students got together to ___________ due to their low test scores.

• enjoin

• expiate

• commiserate

• peculate

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

He feared he would slip and fall on the ____________ sheet of ice covering the parking lot.

• tenuous

• nominal

• circuitous

• adventitious

For some reason, my GPS always seems to send me on the most indirect and ___________ route possible.

• noncommittal

• nominal

• adventitious

• circuitous

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

The candidate's response to the question of foreign wars was unclear, safe, and _____________.

• adventitious

• seditious

• inadvertent

• noncommittal

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

There are so many reasons Mr. Beard _____________ cats-too many to list here.

• ascribes

• abominates

• expiates

• peculates

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4