Writing your memoir Vocab List 1

On the drive, I tried to calm myself with memories of _______________ park activities: the rainbow potato-sack slide or the Viking ship.

• benign
• dubious

• innate

• psuedo

The train threaded into the station. We climbed out, laughing dizzily, and I felt something ​ (a)   to love: I had survived the monster, and all I wanted was to go back and be tossed around again.​

• commensurate
• endeared
• ubiquitous
• innate

And every summer I was spared the horror of the world’s longest wooden roller coaster by being too short to clear Scooby-Doo’s outstretched paw in the park’s ______________ measuring system of emotional and physical maturity.

• dubious

• psuedo

• innate

• benign

I remember the snacks Mom told me she ate when she was a kid and how I tried to imagine her at my age. I wanted to like all the things she did, to ​ (a)   her completely.

• embody
• commensurate
• endear
• dislike

In South Africa back then, it wasn't common to find a white person or a colored person who spoke African languages; during apartheid white people were always taught that those languages were beneath them. So the fact that I did speak African languages immediately _____________ me to the black kids.

• endear

• endeared

• endearing

• endears

Last, there’s my personal favorite: Korean-Chinese ​ (a)   , which serves tangsuyuk — a glossy, sweet-and-sour orange pork — seafood noodle soup, fried rice, and jajangmyeon.

• fusion
• separation
• ubiquitous
• division

Even before I saw the roller coaster, its _________was scored in my mind by way of the Beast’s ubiquitous logo: two manacled claws straddling a railroad track that disappeared into a fiery hellhole.

• infamy

• ubiquitousness

• dubiousness

• endearment

But by the summer of 1984, my body had failed my ​ (a)   survival instincts by growing beyond the 48-inch ride requirement.

• innate
• dubious
• psuedo
• ubiquitous

There will usually be a _________-French bakery with weak coffee, bubble tea, and an array of glowing pastries that always look much better than they taste.

• pseudo

• infamous

• fusion

• ubiquitous

Even before I saw the roller coaster, its infamy was scored in my mind by way of the Beast’s ______________ logo: two manacled claws straddling a railroad track that disappeared into a fiery hellhole.

• ubiquitous

• psuedo

• endearing

• benign