Academic Vocabulary Part 1

I had the ______ experience of sitting next to an over-talkative passenger on my flight home from Brussels.

• satisfactory

• commendable

• galling

• acceptable

• acute

Shakespeare, a(n) ______ writer, entertained audiences by writing many tragic and comic plays.

• numeric

• obstinate

• dutiful

• prolific

• generic

Levina unknowingly ______ the thief by holding open the elevator doors and ensuring his escape.

• coerced

• proclaimed

• abetted

• sanctioned

• solicited

Being able to afford this luxury car will ______ getting a better paying job.

• maximize

• recombinant

• reiterate

• necessitate

• reciprocate

The dress Ariel wore ______ with small, glassy beads, creating a shimmering effect.

• striated

• enthralled

• scintillated

• reiterated

• titillated

Candace would ______ her little sister into an argument by teasing her and calling her names.

• advocate

• provoke

• perforate

• lament

• expunge

Steven is always ______ about showing up for work because he feels that tardiness is a sign of irresponsibility.

• legible

• tolerable

• punctual

• literal

• belligerent

His neighbors found his ______ manner bossy and irritating, and they stopped inviting him to backyard barbeques.

• insentient

• magisterial

• reperaory

• restorative

• modest

The movie offended many of the parents of its younger viewers by including unnecessary ______ in the dialogue.

• vulgarity

• verbosity

• vocalizations

• garishness

• tonality

She hadn’t eaten all day, and by the time she got home she was______.

• blighted

• confutative

• ravenous

• ostentatious

• blissful