Unit 1 Sentences - Kate

Although I try not to _____________ about my daughter's clothing choices, I still keep my eye on what goes into her closet.

• intercede

• simulate

• expostulate

• umbrage

Sometimes, when you have reviewed a lot of films, you feel a little __________.

• decadence

• meritorious

• provincial

• jaded

She tried hard to _________ interest in what he was saying.

• simulate

• transcend

• hiatus

• elicit

The report was based on rumors, speculation, and ___________.

• coalition

• innuendo

• provincial

• umbrage

It is a human impulse to ___________ our physical limitations.

• assuage

• hackneyed

• intercede

• transcend

The organization is a broad __________ of environmental groups.

• provincial

• hiatus

• coalition

• innuendo

He acted like a ________ child who had been refused what he wanted.

• petulant

• meritorious

• provincial

• jaded

The teacher was unable to _______ a positive response from her students.

• simulate

• expostulate

• elicit

• transcend

The opera met with high ____________.

• innuendo

• prerogative

• decadence

• approbation

Their books use __________ plot lines, stock characters, and omission of convenient facts.

• lurid

• hackneyed

• jaded

• unctuous