Vocabulary Workshop Achieve Level F Unit 5 Custom Assessment

The primary opposition leader was among those freed when the new regime declared a(n) _____ for political prisoners.

• amnesty

• autonomy

• caveat

• precept

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

Mathematicians agree that it is _____ that the whole of any entity is greater than any one of its subsidiary parts.

• axiomatic

• vapid

• scathing

• soporific

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Congress approved the new legislation, but with the _____ that spending on the program should not exceed a 5% increase over last year’s budget.

• transient

• soporific

• amnesty

• caveat

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

The entire city held its collective breath as round-the-clock crews of rescue workers struggled valiantly to _____ the young girl from the deep well into which she had accidentally fallen.

• blazon

• filch

• scourged

• extricate

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

His tendency to _____ or ignore established social conventions constantly set the teeth of the more staid members of the community on edge.

• filch

• flout

• scourged

• extricate

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

One of the basic _____ of Buddhism is that desire lies at the root of much human unhappiness.

• precepts

• amnesties

• scourges

• transients

Tags

CCSS.L.1.5A

CCSS.L.1.5B

CCSS.L.K.5A

Many people have read Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels as a charming fantasy, but the book is also a(n) _____ satire of English political and social institutions.

• scathing

• unwieldy

• sepulchral

• axiomatic

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

The _____ effects of an ample hot meal by the warmth of a roaring fire left the guests unable to drive home without having a few cups of strong coffee.

• transient

• soporific

• straitlaced

• unwieldy

Although that writer’s first novel was a best-seller, his success was _____, and all his later books received poor reviews.

• salutary

• transient

• vapid

• scathing

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

After a delicious meal we were treated to a _____ speech by a boring windbag.

• vapid

• sepulchral

• fractious

• scathing

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6