Chapter 3 list words

Meaning: One of two or more posibilities.

Sentence: He developed an ________ design for the new engine.

• opposition

• alternative

• provoke

Meaning: with little care; cheerfully

Sentence: They ________carried on chatting, ignoring the customers who were waiting to be served.

• blithely

• indirect

• sulk

Meaning: To perform a task in a clumsy or an unskilled way.

Sentence: The police ________ the investigation.

• lead

• bungle

• amass

Meaning: To express disapproval of; to declare unsuitable for use.

Sentence: The school _________cheating, and any student caught cheating will be expelled.

• condemn

• provoke

• reconcile

Menaing: To compete in a contest or race.

Sentence: The team is expected to ________ for the championship this year.

• contend

• bear

• nebulous

Menaing: any means used to lead or tempt into danger; lure

sentence: He was booked on a flight leaving that day, but that was just a _______.

• hover

• sulk

• decoy

Meaning: To set up and keep going; to prove; to cause to be recognized and accepted.

sentence: She _____________a reputation as a hard worker

• ransack

• occurrence

• establish

Menaing: straying from a straight path; roundabout.

sentence: We took an ________ route.

• mediate

• indirect

• bungle

Menaing: Very angry

sentence: The owner was so ________ he almost threw me out of the place.

• irate

• lead

• provoke

meaning: a degree of freedom to alter or vary something.

Sentence: We have a tremendous amount of _______ to make up.

• leeway

• blithely

• sulk