Sadlier Oxford Level E Unit 7

At lunchtime, the room rang with the sound of _____________ debates between the fans of rival teams.

• commodious

• vociferous

• voluminous

• reprehensible

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

The Tech team was offside on the play, but since we had thrown them for an eighty-yard loss, we ______________ the five-yard penalty.

• abhorred

• buffeted

• waived

• amended

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

In our frantic search for the missing papers, we overturned everything in the room, leaving it in complete _______________.

• squalor

• chaos

• martinet

• buffet

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Shakespeare tells us that "the evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft ________________ with their bones."

• interred

• buffeted

• abhorred

• waived

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Even in his old age, Thomas Jefferson kept up a ____________________ correspondence with important people in America and abroad.

• commodious

• turbulent

• voluminous

• extant

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

A person who has been ________________ about by many dreadful misfortunes will either become stronger or suffer a complete breakdown.

• abhorred

• amended

• interred

• buffeted

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

The Founding Fathers set up a method of _________________ the Constitution that is neither too easy nor too difficult to use.

• amending

• buffeting

• interring

• waiving

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

If you examine the evidence carefully, you will soon _______________ the contradictions in the witness's story.

• obviate

• discern

• abhor

• amend

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

I don't know which was more __________________ - making improper use of the money or lying about it later.

• somber

• vociferous

• corrosive

• reprehensible

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

In 1940, Winston Churchill conveyed to the British people the _________________ truth that they were fighting for their national existence.

• squalid

• corrosive

• somber

• extant

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4