Vocab Intro List 9

Grant worked in his dad's repair shop to AMASS the funds needed to buy a new dirt bike.

What does AMASS most likely mean?

• to gather things together

• to refuse to accept items

• to sell a large amount of items

• to build something

Jennifer acted uninterested when she saw her boyfriend at the dance with another girl, but her BRAVADO masked the enormous pain she was feeling.

What does BRAVADO mean as used in the sentence above?

• extreme sadness

• passion

• a showy or false display of courage

• fierce anger

The teacher can commiserate with students who struggle with math because it was always her weakest subject in school.

• to dislike strongly

• to feel or express sorrow; to sympathize

• unable to comprehend

If you stop and count to ten when you are angry, it will deter you from doing something that you will regret.

• to prevent from doing or happening

• to speed up the process of something

• to encourage something to happen

Because some people think the title of garbage man is unappealing, a new title of sanitation worker was created as a euphemism.

• Foul language

• an antonym

• an inoffensive term substituted for an offensive term

Tim is a fledgling at Call of Duty, so he often asks better players for advice.

• an expert

• an inexperienced person

• a child

Every room in the five star hotel was filled with lavish furnishings like a chandelier and a huge jetted tub.

• meager and minimal

• dirty and broken

• extravagant and abundant

During the last day of the state fair, visitors could look at the menagerie of prize-winning horse and cattle.

• a collection of animals on display

• a group of people with similar interests

• The single best in a category

The girls at the sleepover decided to play with a Ouija board because they were interested in occult activities.

• dealing with history

• religious or spiritual subjects

• dealing with magic or the supernatural

The students did not realize that the teacher could see their off-task behavior from her peripheral vision, even when her back was turned .

• of, near, or related to the outer edge or boundary

• the center

• the back of a building