Building Vocabulary Skills Chapter 20

notable

• to rise up or come forth

• thrifty; avoiding unnecessary expenses

• tending to act on sudden urges; ot in the habit of planning ahead

• famous; widely known

In my student days, when I was very poor, I sometimes daydreamed about being rich and having an amazingly affluent lifestyle. I imagined being such a(n) ______ member of society that my name would turn up in the newspaper columns every time I attended a party.

Frugal

• giving in to someone's desires, often too much so; lenient

• thrifty; avoiding unnecessary expenses

• having no real interest; unconcerned

• average; ordinary; neither very bad nor very good

Foreign; from a different part of the world; strange or different in an appealing way.

• indifferent

• notable

• exotic

• impulsive

Every time Sylvia shops, she manages to _____ from the store with only items that are on sale.

Giving in to someone's desires, often too much so; lenient

• indulgent

• impulsive

• liberal

• indifferent

emerge

• tending to act on sudden urges; not in the habit of planning ahead

• to rise up or come forth

• famous; widely known

• done with great attention to details; complicated

The _____ meal, full of strange but delicious foods, involved _____ preparation that took up most of the afternoon. But all the work was worth it; we savored every bite.

average; ordinary; neither very bad nor very good

• elaborate

• indifferent

• mediocre

• notable

Norma left the waiter a _____ tip because he had been especially friendly and helpful.

• elaborate

• impulsive

• frugal

• liberal