Vocab units 15&16

If you have ever learned a foreign language, you know that____ speech is very different from formal speech.

• colloquial

• locution

• dictate

• malediction

The hockey league let the temperature of the ice ____ the game schedule.

• colloquial

• dictate

• evocative

• locution

The radio host"s remarks always struck me as overly energetic and _____.

• locution

• exclamatory

• dictates

• clamorous

I am a(n) ____of child saftey, but I also think children should be given some freedom.

• benediction

• dictate

• malediction

• advocate

Tommy's ____ reveals that he is a trained Shakespearean actor.

• exclamatory

• locution

• clamorous

• colloquial

Martin ___upon the subject of tax hikes until he was blue in the face.

• advocated

• declaimed

• equivocated

• dicated

The novel feature an ____ description of a lakeside town in Michigan.

• evocative

• exclamatory

• eloquent

• colloquial

A local rabbi started the ceremony by giving a ______ to the audience.

• malediction

• locution

• clamorous

• benediction

The pianist entered the auditorium to _____ applause.

• evocative

• eloquent

• clamorous

• exclamatory

Having uttered a powerful ____ against his evil uncle, the prince departed the kingdom.

• malediction

• benediction

• exclamatory

• locution