Vocabulary Workshop Quiz W10 G10

In the play Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare's characters rely on the ___________potion that appears to render a person dead, but the ruse backfires. What word best completes the sentence?

• sojourn

• demise

• fallow

• artifice

Conscription, or the draft, is one way the government has of___________ coercing its citizens into uniform during an unpopular war. What word best completes the sentence?

• coercing

• fallowing

• craven

• negligible

You could call Benedict Arnold treacherous, but not_______; traitor that he was, he was brave to the end. What word best completes the sentence?

• inclement

• alienating

• craven

• negligible

She dreamed of a career as a chef and saw herself whipping up _________ delights that would make her world-renowned for her expertise in the kitchen.

What word best completes the sentence?

• inclement

• culinary

• negligible

• sojourn

Social critics are always bemoaning the_______ of good manners in the current generation of youth, forgetting that when they were young, their elders were also dismayed at the passing of manners in children. What word best completes the sentence?

• demise

• fallow

• precedent

• craven

She was so __________when she read the letter announcing that her poem was chosen for an anthology that she expressed her excitement by hugging the mail carrier.

What word best completes the sentence?

• harassed

• exhilarated

• mused

• fallowed

In years in which there is no national election, coverage of political events often enters a _________ phase and reporting is subdued.

What word best completes the sentence?

• fallow

• inclement

• urbane

• craven

The family members felt harassed by trades-people calling at dinnertime, annoyed much by the interruption as they were by the callers' sales pitches. What word best completes the sentence?

• harassed

• fallowed

• mused

• punitive