Sadlier Oxford Level D Unit 12

Seldom has he had to share an ________ amount of space on an album with a fellow artist.

• appreciable

• brawny

• lithe

• laborious

He went to Roumania where his ________ uncle drilled him in politics and duty.

• concerted

• autocratic

• contend

• irreverent

In that horrifying moment Hook did not _____, even at the gills, but Smee and Starkey clung to each other in terror.

• intolerable

• illustrious

• blanch

• concerted

Asked why she indulged in such ______, she simply replied that in her home there were more banknotes than tissue paper.

• lithe

• blanch

• blasphemy

• contend

Do the kilt and sporran bring in _____ youngsters of five-foot nine, and thirty-nine inch round the chest?

• brawny

• lithe

• irreverent

• humane

The combined arms battle called for _____ actions by infantry and artillery later joined by tanks and aviation.

• brawny

• blasphemy

• concerted

• laborious

Nevertheless, the prosecution can _____ that the doctrine of transferred malice applies.

• humane

• illustrious

• irreverent

• contend

Despite his odd profession, and his generally _______ views, he is as tough and as passionate as Caesar, and a redoubtable adversary to him.

• illustrious

• lithe

• autocratic

• humane

He joins the ______ ranks of blind virtuosos, alongside renowned organists and other musicians who have triumphed against physical handicap.

• intolerable

• illustrious

• blasphemy

• laborious

It will become an ______ load which will, in some fashion, break them all.

• blasphemy

• laborious

• intolerable

• venomous