SAT Vocabulary Lesson 14

The worship of ancestors has again and again gathered around it powerful and ethical influences, emphasizing the parental and ...... relations, and strengthening the mutual obligations of communal life.

• proficient

• filial

• remission

• blithe

Though he is famous for ... dismissal of his elders, he was actually remarkably attentive to local history.

• bithe

• blithe

• intrinsic

• cede

It is clear, however, that commanders on the ground are reluctant to ..... power to a foreign force.

• cede

• chagrin

• debonair

• interposed

The genetic integrity of organisms is constantly challenged by extrinsic and .... factors.

• interposed

• remission

• debonair

• intrinsic

After leaving West Point in 1915, Eisenhower quickly established himself as a .... trainer of young recruits.

• proficient

• cede

• remission

• blithe

Gentle and ...... in manners, he knows how to be a submissive husband and cater to the needs of his sweetheart.

• debonair

• chagrin

• blithe

• interposed

Who am I to ... in the delicately poised quadrille of consumers and the fulfillers of dreams?

• interpose

• intrinsic

• blithe

And earlier this year she went into .... and put her recovery down to radiotherapy and a herbal remedy.

• filial

• cede

• chagrin

• remission

To my ... , I notice that the two sets of documents are cross-referenced.

• blithe

• precipitate

• chagrin

• proficient

\shə-ˈgrin\

• Chagrin

• Shagrin

• Chahgrin

• Shagrine