Vocab Review Sadlier F Unit 1

The exhibition did nothing to assuage the public's fears about the conflict. Instead, the gruesome, even lurid, views of battlefield corpses elicited terror and sadness.

In this paragraph, what does assuage mean?

• To make easier; to relieve

• To make harder, to complicate

• To make peevish or annoyed

• To complicate or hinder

A few officers should be singled out for their meritorious efforts.

How is meritorious used in the sentence above?

• Expression of approval or a favorable opinion

• Worthy of recognition and praise

• Lacking in merit

Someone who is peevish, annoyed with trifles, and easily upset is _________________.

• Meritorious

• Interceding

• Petulant

• Takes umbrage

Choose the synonym for hackneyed.

• new

• entertaining

• trite

• bubbly

How is provincial used in the following paragraph?

The sophisticated, big city girl fell hard for the provincial boy from the town fifty miles away.

• Suburban and uneventful

• Rural and backwoods

• Sophisticated and classy

• Lovely and ostentatious

A hint or suggestion

• Innuendo

• Jaded

• Approbation

• Unctuous

To attempt to dissuade someone from some course or reason.

• Transcend

• Approbation

• Simulate

• Expostulate

The professor left school to take a(n) ____________ to write her next novel.

• Prerogative

• Transcend

• Hackneyed

• Hiatus

The students read The Crucible with such dedicated and fervor, they were deserving of the ____________ of their teacher.

• Intercede

• Approbation

• Criticism

• Interference

The writer took ____________ at the unfair remarks of the critic.

• Approbation

• Unctuous

• Umbrage

• Lurid