Lesson 6 Vocab Review

There was a[n] __________ at the garage. A customer arrived and demanded to see his car, after having been told that the repairs were nearly finished, but found that the work had not even begun.

• Imbroglio

• Peregrination

• Quotidian

• Hubris

• Sanctimonious

"Two weeks ago, you said that the job would take three or four days, but that _____ was wrong," the customer sarcastically said to Jane, the receptionist. "Give me the keys; I'll take my car to a different garage."

• Quotidian

• Hubris

• Sanctimonious

• Prognostication

• Scullion

Jane complied, still smiling as usual; she never worried about losing an occasional customer, though she did feel bad about mistakenly telling the customer that his car was finished. Angry customers were a[n] __________ occurrence in the auto repair business; most people have a tendency to become emotional when they receive bills for hundreds or even thousands of dollars, especially for repairs to cars that are still relatively new. Jane knew that every garage in town was overloaded.

• Imbroglio

• Peregrination

• Quotidian

• Hubris

• Sanctimonious

Upon hearing the customer's story, the other garage would offer some ________ criticism of Jane's garage, accept the job, and then do exactly what Jane's garage did, since the car required a tedious repair that yielded little profit.

• Peregrination

• Quotidian

• Hubris

• Santcimonious

• Prognosticate

The whole frustrating process simply causes many drivers to abandon their cars and resort to __________ as their primary form of transportation.

• Peregrination

• Quotidian

• Hubris

• Scullion

• Prognosticate

After receiving the pamphlets for the private school, Veronica's parents thought that the school might be too _________ because of its religious affiliation...

• Platitude

• Sectarian

• Quotidian

• Scullion

• Stringent

..., but they favored the ________ educational requirements to which the students were held.

• Haughty

• Quotidian

• Contrive

• Scullion

• Stringent

Veronica assumed that the private school would be full of ________, rich children....

• Platitude

• Sectarian

• Haughty

• Quotidian

• Contrive

....rich children who probably treated middle-class people like ________.

• Haughty

• Quotidian

• Contrive

• Scullions

• Stringent

She was about to ______ a way to get out of going to the school, but at the last minute, she decided to give it a try.

• Haughty

• Quotidian

• Contrive

• Scullion

• Stringent