English 10 vocab 22

Doesn’t the ____ sound of the bell on the city’s recycling truck remind you of your own recycling responsibilities?

• livid

• impartial

• patent

• clangorous

Answer explanation

Context clue: sound of the bell

inference

It is in everyone’s best interests to be aware of people who break air and water pollution laws and to help ___ polluters.

• gloat

• patent

• indict

• quibble

Answer explanation

Context clue: break air and water pollution laws

inference

Much unmistakable, or ____, evidence exists to prove that environmental quality affects the quality of life.

• clangorous

• patent

• livid

• oblivious

Answer explanation

Context clue: unmistakable

synonym

Naturalist Aldo Leopold, the ___ of the modern environmental family, says we have obligations to the natural world.

• clangor

• patriarch

• legacy

• patent

Answer explanation

Context clue: modern environmental family

inference

I am ___ that all countries are not protecting endangered species and also angry that some people must be ___, or restrained, by law before they will stop polluting.

• patent, indicted

• livid, wheedled

• patent, gloated

• livid, enjoined

Answer explanation

Context clues:

and also angry

or restrained

Synonyms

You may call me a _____, but I really would like to talk you into reading Leopold’s essays.

• wheedler

• patriarch

• clangor

• patent

Answer explanation

Context clue: like to talk you into

definition

Aren’t you ____, or ashamed, that you haven’t joined our movement, especially since two of your friends received ___ for environment-saving inventions?

• gloated, clangors

• enjoined, patriarchs

• indicted, legacies

• mortified, patents

Answer explanation

Context clue:

or ashamed,

inventions

synonym, inference

I’ve gathered legal evidence to ____ one polluting company, but I don’t ____ over my success to take mean pleasure in them.

• wheedle, patent

• indict, gloat

• patent, enjoin

• gloat, indict

Answer explanation

Context clue:

legal evidence

take mean pleasure in them

synonyms

Sometimes I become ____ at companies that harm the environment. My anger motivates me to vote for elected officials who will pass laws ____ companies from harming the environment.

• patent, gloating

• clangorous, indicting

• livid, enjoining

• patent, wheedling

Answer explanation

Context clue:

My anger

from harming the environment.

synonym

inference

It is very important to me that we leave our children the ___ of a healthy, clean, beautiful planet.

• legacy

• clangor

• patriarch

• patent

Answer explanation

Context clue: leave our children

inference