Hidden Figures Ch. 1 & 2 Vocab Practice

It was too dark to _______ anything more than their shadows.

• infantry

• efficient

• distinguish

• simulate

Rain _______ the arrival of spring.

• pioneers

• heralds

• deprives

• simulates

New parents are sleep ______ because of their newborn baby.

• heralded

• plastered

• deprived

• simulated

He joined the _______ after leaving school.

• discrimination

• charismatic

• mathematician

• infantry

The model will be used to ______ the effects of an earthquake.

• efficient

• levy

• pioneer

• simulate

John Whitney was a ______ of computer animation.

• pioneer

• infantry

• discrimination

• mathematician

The government _____ a tax on imports.

• levied

• distinguished

• heralded

• deprived

The manual lawn mower is not a very ______ tool for mowing a huge yard.

• refined

• efficient

• simulate

• distinguish

He was a skilled ________ and engineer, and in his long career he invented many of the basic practices of computer science.

• levy

• infantry

• mathematician

• heralded

She has become more ______ in her painting technique. (skills)

• refined

• charismatic

• plastered

• heralded