English III Vocab Quiz 10/11

I can't believe Mr. Mirocke is making us do __________________ again for Raisin In The Sun.

• gauche

• efficacious

• annotations

• discursive

characterized by or calling for continued sitting; remaining in one place

• sedentary

• dowdy

• debonair

• perceptive

The _________________-looking traveling salesman had no charm or people skills. His ________________ mannerisms were not going to help him sell his premium rubber chickens.

• dowdy; gauche

• gauche; dowdy

• debonair; efficacious

• efficacious; debonair

There are definitely some ______________ operations going on at Area 51.

• covert

• salient

• heresy

• palpable

The church brought up charges of ________________ against the HERETICS.

• discursive

• heresy

• gist

• fortuitous

An _____________________ person does not rely on ___________________ situations to bring them success. (Although they do say that fortune favors the bold.) Their consistency is the result of their own hard work and not someone else's __________________ help.

• efficacious, gratuitous, fortuitous

• gratuitous, fortuitous, efficacious

• efficacious, fortuitous, gratuitous

• fortuitous, efficacious, gratuitous

the essential part, main point, or essence

• gist

• corroborate

• palpable

• provocative

to scatter or spread widely

• salient

• contingent

• debonair

• disseminate

Although the ________________ Waldo stands out from the crowd with his red-and-white striped sweater, it takes a __________________ eye to actually find where he is.

• perceptive; salient

• salient; perceptive

• debonair; perceptive

• provocative; palpable

This is what most of you probably do on your assignments.

(Pick the correct spelling

• procrastinate

• procrastanate