Grade 8 Lesson 14

Troy's score on the __________ test section was higher than that on the mathematics section.

• verbal

• intramural

• autonomous

• apathetic

The veterinarian gave the lamb an ____________ injection of vitamins.

• intervention

• intermediate

• intravenous

• intramural

The advertisement was addressed to "___________," so I just tossed it in the wastebasket.

• Adherent

• Abundant

• Humanoid

• Occupant

Mozart's opera ________________from the Seraglio is about an attempted kidnapping that takes place in a Turkish sultan's palace.

• Abduction

• Intervention

• Transmission

• Plight

Greg lost the chess game because he had a short _______ of concentration and made a single bad move.

• plight

• lapse

• mandate

• certitude

The mountain sunset was so beautiful that it had the power to _________ everyone in our hiking group.

• transfix

• enclos

• perforate

• abdicate

A knowledge of _____________ can be a great help when you try to learn a foreign language.

• hydrophobia

• transmission

• certitude

• phonetics

I wish people wouldn't _________ on the corner of our block.

• abdicated

• loiter

• summon

• enclose

The ____________ of the trapped miners captured the sympathy of the entire country.

• mandate

• phobia

• lapse

• plight

Terrence's sprained ankle was so severe that the quick _______ of a doctor was required.

• transmission

• pathos

• intervention

• gratitude