Academic Vocabulary - 2

Prince Phillip had to choose: marry the woman he loved and ______ his right to the throne, or marry Lady Fiona and inherit the crown.

• reprimand

• upbraid

• abdicate

• winnow

• extol

If you will not do your work of your own ______, I have no choice, but to penalize you if it is not done on time.

• predilection

• coercion

• excursion

• volition

• infusion

After sitting in the sink for several days, the dirty, food-encrusted became ______.

• malodorous

• prevalent

• imposing

• perforated

• emphatic

Giulia soon discovered the source of the ______ smell in the room: a week-old tuna sandwich that one of the children had hidden in the closet.

• quaint

• fastidious

• clandestine

• laconic

• fetid

After making ______ remarks to the President, the reporter was not invited to return to the White House pressroom.

• hospitable

• itinerant

• enterprising

• chivalrous

• irreverent

With her ______ eyesight, Krystyna spotted a trio of deer on the hillside and she reduced the speed of her car.

• inferior

• keen

• impressionable

• ductile

• conspiratorial

With a(n) ______ grin, the boy quickly slipped the candy into his pocket without his mother’s knowledge.

• jaundiced

• nefarious

• stereotypical

• sentimental

• impartial

Her ______ display of tears at work did not impress her new boss, who felt she should try to control her emotions.

• maudlin

• meritorious

• precarious

• plausible

• schematic

Johan argued, “If you know about a crime but don’t report it, you are ______ in that crime because you allowed it to happen.”

• acquitted

• steadfast

• tenuous

• complicit

• nullified

10. The authorities, fearing a ______ of their power, called for a military state in the hopes of restoring order.

• subversion

• premonition

• predilection

• infusion

• inversion