11th grade vocab week 8

Some flight attendants dread a _____________ airline passenger more than they do rough weather.

• resilient

• irrevocable

• querulous

• scurrilous

Perhaps she had less native ability than some of her classmates, but her powers of concentration and ________ study program enabled her to finish first in her class.

• reverberate

• remonstrate

• propensity

• sedulous

I’m not going to ___________ the ideas and standards by which I have guided my life just because they have become unpopular.

• reverberate

• repudiate

• sedulous

• remonstrate

From the construction site, the noise of bulldozers and dump trucks ______________ed across the valley

• reverberated

• remonstrated

• repudiated

• sleazy

1. The commitment you have made is ______________ without the consent of  the other party to the agreement.

• sedulous

• propensity

• irrevocable

• remonstrate

Since our efforts to _____________ with the factory managers about pollution of the lake have been ineffective, we are now considering legal action.

• remonstrate

• repudiate

• sleazy

• irrevocable

1. The old lady made her clothes at home in order to avoid the ________ goods sold in the general store.

• propensity

• sleazy

• querulous

• resilient

Days passed and unrest grew, and soon the rebels began a ________________ attack on their absent leader

• querulous

• sleazy

• scurrilous

• sedulous

1. Queen Elizabeth I showed a strong _________ for putting off decisions in the hopes that they would resolve themselves.

• 1. propensity

• sleazy

• querulous

• irrevocable

1. The development of lightweight __________ plastics revolutionized the design of many durable goods.

• irrevocable

• sedulous

• scurrilous

• 1. resilient