Eng9 L1-4 Vocab Exam Review

Staring at the blank sheet of paper on which I was supposed to write a poem, I found myself ________ of ideas.

• extol

• plumb

• destitute

• flamboyant

To ________ is to take away, especially from the value, beauty, or importance of

• bewail

• detract

• emancipate

• extol

Which of the following words is NOT an antonym for EMANCIPATE?

• to enslave

• to imprison

• to oppress

• to liberate

Which of the following words means "excessively showy or unrestrained?"

• insuperable

• vagabond

• flamboyant

• obligatory

Theodore Roosevelt ________ physical fitness and vigorous activity.

• plumbed

• wheedled

• bewailed

• extolled

Rain showers were ________ throughout the day, even though the forecast had promised sunshine.

• intermittent

• obligatory

• insuperable

• flamboyant

He spent a few years as a _______ before settling in a city and getting a job in a factory.

• visage

• vagabond

• impetus

• maxim

Ice floes - large sheets of floating ice - ________ the ships of early explorers in Antarctica.

• encumbered

• arrayed

• fraught

• haphazarded

We abandoned the idea of traveling up the Amazon River when we learned that such a trip would be ________ with danger.

• traversed

• deduced

• arrayed

• fraught

The disappearance of many ships and planes within the Atlantic Ocean's Bermuda Triangle is ________ to me.

• ubiquitous

• inexplicable

• torrid

• ingenious