Vocabulary Workshop Level E Unit 1

How can you tell whether the chopped-meat patty you ate for lunch had been __________ with artificial coloring and other foreign substances?

• reiterated

• adulterated

• pliable

• intimation

Many ballplayers can bat from either side of the plate, but the cannot throw well with each band unless they are __________.

• pliable

• fortified

• verbatim

• ambidextrous

The company commander called his troops together and asked for more volunteers to __________ the strength of the raiding party.

• augment

• opulent

• unkempt

• gaped

Perhaps I would be bored with the _________ lifestyle of a millionaire, but I'm willing to try it.

• opulent

• intimation

• gaped

• guise

Why would someone who is usually so neat and well-dressed appear in public in such a(n) __________ state?

• ambidextrous

• unkempt

• verbatim

• reiterate

As the magician's assistant seemed to vanish into thin air, the entire audience __________ in amazement.

• tentative

• reiterated

• deployed

• gaped

Why should I be the object of all those __________ just because I'm wearing a three-piece suit on campus?

• wary

• gibes

• stolid

• dour

In Shakespeare's famous tragedy Othello, Iago comes to Othello in the __________ of a friend but proves to be a deadly enemy.

• unkempt

• guise

• reiterate

• adulterate

I recorded the speaker's presentation, but now I wish I had a software program that could help me transcribe the speech __________ so that I can find appropriate quotations to use in my report.

• verbatim

• dour

• bereft

• warily

America's earliest settlers faced the hardships of life on the frontier with faith and __________.

• fortitude

• opulence

• pliable

• courage