Week 11-Core 1

sync means to:

• mesh

• respond

• widen

• press

Thousands of warriors had assembled to ward off the invading army: "Their squadrons were so ________ that they covered the whole plain and they rushed on us like mad dogs," wrote Bernal Díaz del Castillo, a young conquistador and eyewitness to the day's events.

Source: Slate

• contrasting

• numerous

• obligated

• majestic

immense means :

• innocent

• cheerful

• reiligious

• gigantic

beaming means :

• active

• broad

• loud

• cheerful

Wells’s nickname harks to when he looked ________ enough to snap like a string bean.

Source: New York Times

• majestic

• bruised

• frail

• beaming

The silvery mohonono, which in the tropics is in form like the cedar of Lebanon, stands in pleasing ________ with the dark color of the motsouri, whose cypress-form is dotted over at present with its pleasant scarlet fruit.

Source: Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa

• sheepish

• weary

• contrast

• immensely

What would you most likely weary of?

• eating out at a favorite restaurant

• hearing someone's constant complaints

• earning high grades on tests and quizzes

• taking a shower in the morning

horizon means :

• vision

• predator

• skyline

• hilltop

Once in milder days there must have been a fair thicket in the ravine, but now, after some fifty yards, the trees came to an end, though old broken stumps straggled on almost to the cliff’s brink.

Source: The Two Towers

In this sentence, straggled means:

• showed differences or provided contrast

• spread in a rambling or irregular way

• came together so as to form a single product

• decayed with an offensive smell

She ________ looked away, embarrassed by their reaction.

Source: New York Times

• beaming

• immensely

• sheepishly

• wearily