Word Smart 1 Review A-B

He accepted her job offer with ______________.

• aesthetic

• alacrity

• alloy

• allusion

The police _______ that the man was murdered but they have given no proof.

• allege

• alleviate

• arcane

• appease

You grew up in an ________ household and have never been able to bring yourself to believe in God.

• agnostic

• adverse

• apotheosis

• apocryphal

The overall __________ of the room is cozy.

• archetype

• bastion

• ambience

• arduous

Don't _______ her piano playing just because you're jealous.

• blithe

• belittle

• beleaguer

• austere

Connie was rather _________ by all the attention she was getting.

• benevolent

• belittled

• benigned

• bequest

The _______ of the concert disappointed the audience.

• bovine

• brevity

• beset

• blasphemy

The ________ of western civilization has been to divorce our thought from our emotions.

• bereaved

• beset

• blasphemy

• blight

take possession of by force

• ardent

• archetype

• arduous

• appropriate

Patriotism is a ________ veneration of real estate above principles.

• arbitrary

• archaic

• arbiter

• apocryphal