Unit 4 Vocabulary in Sentences

Choose the correct word.

“Good. Now, there are several items you will need to _____ for our moonlight jaunts.”

Artemis Fowl

• goad

• void

• procure

• animate

Choose the correct word.

He envisioned an _____ of all the peoples west to the Mississippi, north into the Great Lakes region, and south to the Gulf of Mexico.

An Indigenous People’s History of the United States

• buffoon

• wince

• procure

• alliance

Choose the correct word.

A man who said anything new, or advanced an opinion that was not strictly _____, was regarded with suspicion.

Hocking, Silas K. (Silas Kitto)

• orthodox

• fruitless

• spirited

• sodden

Choose the correct word.

He moved from one topic to the next, making no concession to their _____ expressions.

Hidden Figures

• controversial

• fruitless

• spirited

• bewildered

Choose the correct word.

After a minute of _____ searching, she was simultaneously relieved and disappointed.

The Martian

• controversial

• fruitless

• spirited

• bewildered

Choose the correct word.

Lyddie hesitated, but her _____ clothes and blistered feet reminded her how unsuited she was to continue the journey.

Lyddie

• controversial

• wayward

• sodden

• inflammable

Choose the correct word.

She smoothed some of my _____ hairs back in place and tucked them into my coiled braid.

The Joy Luck Club

• controversial

• wayward

• sodden

• inflammable

Choose the correct word.

“He was a _____, one of the great comic characters. He was always getting himself into extraordinary situations.”

The Once and Future King

• buffoon

• void

• drone

• hazard

Choose the correct word.

I warned them against the dangers of being _____ and insisted we were doing quite well.

Long Walk to Freedom

• spirited

• disheartened

• void

• hostile

Choose the correct word.

Her _____ eyes glared at him and her lips raised snarling from her little teeth.

East of Eden

• spirited

• disheartened

• void

• hostile