Academic Vocabulary WK 14 and 15

When the ______ young actor ran on stage, the women in audience for in awe of his good looks.

• infamous

• intrinsic

• virile

• handsome

The non-profit spend more money than they had taken in, so it now has a huge budget _____

• bankrupt

• deficit

• zero balance

• aspire

Hitler and Mussolini will go down in history as two of the world's ______ and sinister dictators of their time.

• infamous

• famous

• demise

• spectacular

The State Fair of Texas ended on Sunday, I can only _____ as to the amount of money the City of Dallas made for the month.

• cynic

• speculate

• wish

• guess

I was surprised to hear of the _______ of my neighbor's family members when heard the news.

• dying

• revulsion

• covert

• demise

An angry customer had to express her disgust and _______ at the rude store manager's behavior.

• covert

• revulsion

• intrinsic

• disbelieve

Working hard, striving for your degree take a great deal of ______ motivation.

• extrinsic

• alleviate

• intrinsic

• inside

Debbie never has anything nice to say about anything or anyone, she always look for the worst in every situation.

This could be an example of a _________

• cynic

• nasty person

• benefactor

• demise

The young writer had hopes ________ of winning the Pulitzer Prize at some point in time.

• lucratives

• visions

• aspirations

• dreams

I have a ______ meeting on Friday that I dread having to attend.

• demise

• compulsive

• diversion

• mandatory