English III Midterm Vocab Review - Sentences (2017-2020)

In an effort to ___________ the complaining students, the teacher promised to let them play Kahoot after they went over the grammar presentation.

• elicit

• assuage

• simulate

• transcend

A group of students decided to form a ___________ to convince the principal to let them dress down for the rest of the semester.

• coalition

• hiatus

• decadence

• prerogative

Although there has been an increase in late assignments recently, this increase is not necessarily a sign of __________ of the work ethic of the students.

• megalomania

• proclivity

• umbrage

• decadence

The teacher's provocative questions usually ________ some very interesting answers from the typically reserved students.

• elicit

• ferment

• simulate

• flout

The teacher _________ about her students' procrastination because she feared they would not do well on their exam if they didn't start working on their grammar practice.

• exhorted

• assuaged

• expostulated

• blazoned

Cliches such as "smart as a whip" and "cool as a cucumber" are _________, stale expressions, and you should try to avoid them in your writing.

• brusque

• hackneyed

• adventitious

• straitlaced

Zoe took a two-hour ________ from studying so she could watch her favorite Christmas movie before returning to her notes.

• aspersion

• contraband

• fetter

• hiatus

The teacher had to __________ in the dispute between the students during the review game when ________ language took the place of their friendly and harmless taunts.

• scourge; erudite

• intercede; vitriolic

• extricate; affable

• inveigh; anomalous

Once considered too ________ and revolting for refined readers, Edgar Allen Poe's shocking tales of madness and horror remain as vibrant today as they were more than a century ago.

• surreptitious

• lurid

• soporific

• vitriolic

The teachers have the ________ to decide what will be assessed on the exam.

• prerogative

• autonomy

• proclivity

• megalomania