Vocabulary #1-2 Review English I

The truck in _____, the wheels kept spinning unable to become free, so we decided to wade through the swamp until we found dry land.

• mire

• bedlam

• pandemonium

• cataclysm

• visceral

When the world-class prankster turned back all of the clocks in the metroplex four hours earlier, the city was struck by _______, neighbors asking each other what happened.

• mire

• bedlam

• pandemonium

• cataclysm

• visceral

The day of the purge, when all crimes became lawful, ______ and horror filled the streets.

• mire

• bedlam

• pandemonium

• cataclysm

• visceral

Hurricane Katrina proved a deadly _____ for the city of New Orleans.

• mire

• bedlam

• pandemonium

• cataclysm

• visceral

I had a ____feeling someone was stalking me home.

• mire

• bedlam

• pandemonium

• cataclysm

• visceral

The _______zombie oozed a green pus that smelled of rotten eggs.

• visceral

• putrefying

• equanimity

• commiserate

The star basketball player showed ______when they hit the game winner during the playoffs.

• visceral

• putrefying

• equanimity

• commiserate

I could _____with the TV show heroine when she grieved for her dog because our family Chihuahua was stolen not two months ago.

• visceral

• putrefying

• equanimity

• commiserate

Her hair ___________in the wind after the horses burst into top speed in the bright sunlight.

• osteopathy

• unspooled

• unfettered

• maudlin

After receiving the stuck trapeze artist, a pretzel of limbs, the doctors decided to practice some ___________ to relieve stress and tension.

• marvel

• unspooled

• osteopathy

• unfettered