Level F - Unit 5 - Completing the Sentence

Her approach to the problem seems to have been guided by the time-honored _____ that "Force is the remedy for nothing."

• precept

• caveat

• vapid

• axiomatic

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Since the close of World War II, almost 100 former colonies have gained full _____ and joined the family of nations.

• autonomy

• filch

• soporific

• extricate

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

She has made so many contradictory promises to so many people that I don't see how she can _____ herself from the situation.

• extricate

• amnesty

• filch

• precept

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

Shivers went up and down our spines as, in a _____ voice, the teacher spoke to us of ghosts, vampires, and the "living dead."

• sepulchral

• scourge

• blazon

• flout

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

Our science teacher gets angry when students try to argue basic and ______ principles of science.

• axiomatic

• scathing

• equitable

• soporific

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Both sides agreed to try to find a(n) ________ compromise that would please everyone.

• equitable

• transient

• unwieldy

• fractious

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.3

CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.4A

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

The new government, seeking to restore normal conditions, declared an _____ for all political prisoners.

• amnesty

• caveat

• precept

• autonomy

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

It was Lincoln who said: "Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty _____ of war may speedily pass away."

• scourge

• sepulchral

• blazon

• precept

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

The standards of behavior generally accepted in Victorian times would probably be rejected today as excessively _____.

• straitlaced

• transient

• flout

• amnesty

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

The _______ of the contract includes a penalty fee if the loan is not repaid on time.

• caveat

• amnesty

• soporific

• vapid

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E