ELA 9- Unit 1 Vocabulary

When rescuers arrived, the storm had ______ almost all signs of the town.

• debris

• perennial

• salvaged

• effaced

When questioned by authorities, the brigands claimed that their mission was to _____ valuable car parts from the wreck.

• deadlock

• salvage

• efface

• debris

William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is a _______ classic.

• perennial

• opinionated

• spasmodic

• circumspect

A stalemate in peace talks

• debris

• circumspect

• breach

• deadlock

careful, cautious

• admonish

• circumspect

• efface

• spasmodic

The tourists left the steps of the monument covered in _______.

• diffuse

• salvage

• predispose

• debris

too inflexible about one's ideas

• admonished

• opinionated

• relinquished

• deadlocked

Edgar Allen Poe is known to have had ______ displays of madness.

• opinionated

• cumbersome

• predisposed

• spasmodic

to give up; let go

• breach

• efface

• relinquish

• circumspect

Which of the following is another word for break

through?

• unbridled

• breach

• efface

• spasmodic