Quarter 2 Vocab

My English teacher is well-known for going off on _________ during her lectures.

• tangents

• non sequiturs

• nuance

• debacle

My _________ neighbors are the most popular couple on the block.

• gregarious

• covert

• tangent

• haughty

arrogantly superior 

• Haughty

• Tenacious

• Acquiesce

• Lampoon

not letting go or giving up on something one holds dear 

• insidious

• lampoon

• tenacious

• covert

accept something

• renown

• lampoon

• nuance

• acquiesce

Bed bugs are ___________ little creatures; you don’t know they’re there until it’s too late.

• lampoon

• covert

• insidious

• nuance

With __________ determination, the hobbled runner crawled across the marathon’s finish line.

• debacle

• acquiesce

• temerity

• tenacious

publicly ridicule

• gregarious

• tenacious

• lampoon

• haughty

When the boy belched at the dinner table, a look of _________ disdain crossed the hostess’ face.

• haughty

• tenacious

• acquiesce

• lampoon

The exhausted mother __________ to her toddler’s demands for a new toy.

• covert

• acquiesce

• gregarious

• tenacious