Sadlier-Oxford Level H Unit 7

The administrators and staff reluctantly agreed to hold the matter in ___________.

• carte blanche

• abeyance

• inchoate

• eclat

The celebrated teacher strove to _______ her student with the desire to succeed.

• imbue

• beleaguer

• malleable

• refractory

The mayor was seen as a ________ by the members of the city's art community.

• gambol

• abeyance

• debauch

• philistine

She found the audience to be impressionable.

• abeyance

• inchoate

• malleable

• picaresque

Technology was in its rudimentary form at that time.

• abeyance

• inchoate

• malleable

• picaresque

The college student welcomed the deferment.

• abeyance

• inchoate

• malleable

• picaresque

Don Quixote is known as a roguish novel of epic adventures.

• abeyance

• inchoate

• malleable

• picaresque

He will never realize his full athletic potential as long as he remains (beleaguered, nemesis) by doubts by his own ability.

• beleaguered

• nemesis

Since they had always been reasonably well-behaved, I was utterly taken aback by their (ambivalent, refractory) behavior.

• ambivalent

• refractory

Perhaps you hope to divert our attention from your own misconduct by maliciously (lampooning, gamboling) a sincere and able public official.

• lampooning

• gamboling