The Leap_by Louise Erdrich_Vocabulary

tentative means:

• unconfirmed

• unpopular

• unavoidable

• unbiased

In which of the following examples does someone comply?

• A student forgets to study for a spelling test.

• An aspiring chef takes a cooking class.

• A teenager saves his money in order to buy a new phone.

• A child cleans her room when her parents tell her to.

encroach means to:

• smother or suppress

• impinge or infringe upon

• cause to become stonelike or stiff

• make a spot or mark onto

hemorrhage means to:

• degenerate

• react

• speculate

• bleed

embarrassed means:

• disappointed

• altered

• indefinite

• ashamed

Which of the following is most likely to try to extricate itself?

• a strand of DNA

• a penitent monk

• a fly caught in a spider web

• a triceratops

If you were hurrying out to the pasture to visit your favorite cow, you might vault over the gate in your excitement.

• jump across or leap over, as an obstacle

• declare or judge unfit for use or habitation

• secure an exclusive right to publish and sell a written work

• dispose of something useless or old

If a friend describes your dot matrix printer as superannuated, then you should probably plan a shopping trip for electronics.

• invariable

• outmoded

• indifferent

• outrageous

Which example best describes someone who is vigorous?

• an airline pilot getting sleep before a flight

• a tennis player training for a tournament

• an art director designing an advertisement

• a patient worrying before he has surgery

If your new turtleneck sweater constricts your neck, the sweater is probably too small.

• distribute

• transfer

• squeeze

• groom