Study Set #2 Vocab Test

After being cooped up in an office all day, Pete finds great __________ in spending time outdoors.

• withdraws

• solace

• disgrace

• flourish

When his wife passed away, the man became an almost complete ____________ because she was the one who always invited guests over.

• recluse

• repose

• disgrace

• invalidated

The politician had to __________ from the election because it was revealed he was involved in a major scandal.

• solitude

• flourish

• withdraw

• repose

Napoleon left France in utter ___________ when his war campaign failed miserably.

• invalidated

• solitude

• recluse

• disgrace

The author chose to rent a remote cabin in order to work on her novel in ______________.

• solitude

• recluse

• stanza

• disgrace

After the archeologist's startling discovery of the ancient ruins, several scientists sought to _____________ how authentic they really were.

• devour

• repose

• invalidate

• flourish

Because she wanted to be the best golf player in her division, she __________ every instructional golf magazine she could.

• repose

• devoured

• disgrace

• withdraw

Waving his sword with a __________, the knight galloped into the castle on his trusty steed to rescue the princess.

• disgrace

• flourish

• repose

• stanza

The student found the simile in the third __________ of the poem.

• solitude

• recluse

• repose

• stanza

When the storm destroyed part of their nest, the birds quickly rebuilt it so that the fledglings could ________ peacefully once again.

• withdraw

• repose

• recluse

• solitude