Unit 1 -- Level E

Hospitals take strict precautions to assure that nothing _________ the blood supply.

• Intimation

• Adulterate

• Stolid

• Unkempt

Occasionally a teacher will come across a child who displays ___________ abilities when taught to write.

• Augment

• Dour

• Deploy

• Ambidextrous

Many couples have to ________ their income in order to pay the mortgage on a new home.

• Augment

• Insidious

• Warily

• Pliable

Individuals who live to be very old may eventually find themselves completely _______ of friends and family.

• Ambidexrious

• Bereft

• Gape

• Dour

A bugle call is a signal to ________ troops for inspection, parade, or battle.

• Deploy

• Augment

• Opulent

• Stolid

Because the coach was disappointed in his team’s behavior, he wore a ________ expression when he gave his post-game speech

• Verbatim

• Pliable

• Gape

• Dour

The residents of the Mississippi delta showed remarkable ___________ during and after the flood that destroyed their homes and businesses.

• Pliable

• Warily

• Unkempt

• Fortitude

First time visitors to Niagara Falls can be expected to _____________ at the spectacular sights nature has to provide for them.

• Augment

• Gape

• Opulent

• Tentative

The recruits rushed into battle so that no one could ________ at them for cowardice.

• Deploy

• Gibe

• Stolid

• Warily

The thieves gained entry to the home by presenting themselves in the _________ of police officers.

• Opulent

• Tentative

• Adulterate

• Guise