English III Week #8

We spent a pleasant afternoon with our _____ neighbors.

• affable

• gossamer

• insular

• sleazy

• adventitious

Sherlock Holmes was an ____ of a clever detective who always solves the case.

• archetype

• scurrilous

• contraband

• expiate

• proclivity

Three jeweled combs from the seventeenth century were among the _____ seized by the police.

• contraband

• gossamer

• reverberate

• affable

• sangfroid

Ghosts are often depicted in literature as wearing _____ clothing that makes them seem more ethereal.

• gossamer

• insular

• scurrilous

• sleazy

• enjoined

You seem too sophisticated to hold such _____ opinions.

• insular

• repudiate

• inadvertent

• noncommittal

• irrevocable

We tend to think of court verdicts as _____, but they are often overturned by higher courts.

• irrevocable

• sleazy

• archetype

• contraband

• commiserated

He was forced to _____ a statement he made before he'd had all the information.

• repudiate

• reverberate

• abominate

• enjoin

• tenuous

From the construction site, the noise of bulldozers and dump trucks ______ across the valley.

• reverberated

• repudiated

• enjoined

• scurrilous

• expiated

Days passed and unrest grew, and soon the rebels began a ____ attack on their absent leader.

• scurrilous

• tenuous

• affable

• insular

• noncommittal

My grandmother made her clothes at home in order to avoid the ____ goods sold in the general store.

• sleazy

• scurrilous

• affable

• irrevocable

• adventitious