Unit 1 Vocabulary

"There's a _____, and increasingly angry mood on the issue. No one talks about it, but everybody is full of resentment.

• barren

• trivial

• sullen

• alight

When the ___ ends at noon tomorrow, it will only be a matter of time before gunfire is heard again.

• vicious

• hurtle

• truce

• dynasty

It's a great miniature motorbike that you can actually ride and will ____ you about the place at speeds of up to 30mph.

• germinate

• alight

• hurtle

• trickle

The pressure to conform to all these ____ values in nowaday's society is absolutely enormous.

• adjacent

• interminable

• vicious

• trivial

This was not a ____ creature standing before him, but a breathtakingly beautiful, gigantic wolf.

• interminable

• trivial

• vicious

• sullen

His poetry expresses discontent with orderly lives and ______ routine, praising spontaneity and emotion.

• vicious

• sullen

• barren

• humdrum

The country was mostly poor and ____, sandy hillocks, with scanty growth of spinifex.

• barren

• alight

• adjacent

• sullen

Recent legislation has reduced immigration to a ___.

• disrupt

• truce

• trickle

• humdrum

Water is still _____ -ing out of the gutter after last night's heavy rain.

• disrupt

• renovate

• trickle

• hurtle

The rain was just a _____ of the approaching hurricane.

• truce

• foretaste

• germinate

• trickle