Unit 4 Vocabulary

Although Marie joked about her broken leg, it was an __ that kept her from work for a month.

• deterrent

• infirmity

• infringe

• inequity

When a restaurant's tables have ashtrays, the ___ is that smoking is permitted.

• subjective

• revitalize

• innovation

• implication

Our democratic rights do not include the freedom to ___ on other people's rights.

• infringe

• deterrent

• revitalize

• infirmity

"Now" is a ___ way of saying, "At this point in time."

• succinct

• subjective

• sparse

• revitalize

Our grass is ___ along a path at the corner of the lot, where kids take a shortcut through our yard.

• sparse

• subjective

• deterrent

• infringe

An interesting ___ in food packaging is a bottle from which salad dressing is squirted, rather than poured.

• inequity

• infringe

• innovation

• implication

The seminar for company employees ___(e)d my aunt's interest in her job by giving her new skills and suggesting new goals.

• infirmity

• revitalize

• subjective

• innovation

The Diary of Anne Frank is a ___ view of events during World War II, from the point of view of a young girl in hiding.

• subjective

• innovation

• inequity

• infringe

The company accused of creating a(n) ___ by paying women less than men for doing the same work.

• infringe

• infirmity

• deterrent

• inequity

The fact that Beethoven was totally deaf by age 50 was not a(n) ___ to his composing at the age of 53 one of his most ambitious and beloved works the Ninth Symphony.

• sparse

• inequity

• implication

• deterrent