English 9 Lesson 14 Vocab

Easily managed or controlled.

• tractable

• zany

• inherent

• articulate

The sudden frost had _______ this year's orange harvest.

• amassed

• garbed

• nurtured

• decimated

Karen's aptitude for business enabled her to ______ a small fortune before she was thirty.

• decimate

• amass

• inherent

• articulate

Comical because of strangeness; clownish

• garb

• articulate

• parody

• zany

The surgeon was proud of his ______ hands.

• dexterous

• gregarious

• pugnacious

• obtrusive

The Secret Service must be vigilant without being too _______.

• obtrusive

• pugnacious

• tractable

• reprehensible

The ________ basketball player challenged the referee with insulting words.

• obtrusive

• dexterous

• tractable

• pugnacious

People who are _______ make friends easily.

• gregarious

• reprehensible

• tractable

• obtrusive

To express one's thoughts, feelings, or beliefs in words.

• dexterous

• gregarious

• articulate

• nuture

My ______ grandparents had two children, my mother and my uncle Bill.

• zany

• maternal

• inherent

• gregarious