Vocabulary 6: Unit 7 Review

Before you _____ yourself in the bath, be sure to test the temperature of the water.

• authorize

• expend

• illicit

• immerse

Many people were injured in the explosion, but luckily there was not a single _______.

• culprit

• fatality

• inflammatory

• illicit

No matter how talented you may be, you will never be successful unless you learn to ______ in what you undertake.

• persevere

• dawdle

• expend

• dissect

She was so deeply ______ in the book she was reading that she did not even hear us enter the room.

• authorized

• expended

• immersed

• gullible

It was plain from the way that he _____ over breakfast that he was in no hurry to visit the dentist.

• dawdled

• expended

• immersed

• persevered

We learned in our social studies class that the Constitution ______ the president to arrange treaties with foreign countries.

• dissects

• expends

• authorizes

• dawdles

Cracking down on ______ drug traffic is one of the biggest problems facing law-enforcement agencies in the United States.

• authorized

• illicit

• inflammatory

• gullible

Is it wise to ______ so much of your hard-earned money on things that you don't really want or need?

• expend

• dissect

• authorize

• immerse

What part of speech is "dawdle"?

• noun

• verb

• adjective

• adverb

What part of speech is "illicit"?

• noun

• verb

• adjective

• adverb