Vocabulary Workshop Level D Unit 11

Garble means

• Shortness

• To tell, reveal

• To distort in a way as to make unitelligible

• To spring back

Quaver means

• To shake, tremble

• free from ignorance

• expressing much in a few words

• to lower in quality

Demure means

• To prevent

• One who supports a cause

• A small stream

• Serious in manner, modest

Concise means

• One who puts forth a purpose

• Free from ignorance and false Ideas

• To lower in quality

• Expressing much in a few words

Relentless means

• A law

• Harsh, without pity

• To make up

• To spend foolishly

The speech was notable more for its _____________than for its clarity.

• Quaver

• Proponents

• Recoil

• Brevity

A rivulet is NOT a

• Trickle of water

• Bubbling creek

• Slow-moving stream

• Rushing river

A(n) _____________public opinion, said Jefferson, is essential to a democratic society.

• Enlightened

• Relentless

• Forestall

• Divulge

The accountant calculated the _________________of the computer over a period of five years.

• Comport

• Deteriorate

• Forestall

• Depreciation

I wish there was a ___________________that would prevent people from revealing the ending of a detective story.

• Reek

• Statute

• Staccato

• Recoup