Vocabulary for Distance Learning #8

to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy; to make purposely unclear

• obfuscate

• incorribible

• boycott

• ambiguous

The answer the witness gave on the stand was designed to _________________ the jury and cause a mistrial.

• obfuscate

• elapse

• evoke

• ambiguous

impervious to constraints or punishment; willful; unruly; uncontrollable

• incorrigible

• imperative

• ungrateful

• evoke

In stories, often the strict governess was brought in for the rich child who was _____________________; and the child miraculously becomes well behaved and thanks the strict governess.

• incorrigible

• obfuscate

• precedent

• perceptive

aggressively hostile; belligerent

• truculent

• prevalent

• prudent

• rebuke

When a teenager is being punished, they are often _______________.

• truculent

• prudent

• predictable

• concise

widespread; of wide extent or occurrence; in general use or acceptance.

• prevalent

• precedent

• generation

• commence

The amount of reliable research on the internet is as ________________ as the amount of junk science; as long as you know how to differentiate between the two finding information is easy.

• prevalent

• simultaneous

• concise

• encompass

wise or judicious in practical affairs; sagacious; discreet or circumspect; sober

• prudent

• rebuke

• belligerent

• ambiguous

Spending above your budget for months in a row is not a ___________________ use of your money.

• prudent

• gruesome

• impel

• obsolete