English III (Vocabulary)

The band tried to ________________ the angry crowd by playing their most popular hit song. 

• apparition
• appease
• advance
• ashen

My sister swears she has seen the same __________________ haunting my grandmother's home in Troy for three Halloweens in a row. 

• appease
• apparition
• advance
• heretic

Mom _____________________(ed) the cake with a lid to make sure that the flies did not eat it at the picnic before we had a chance to devour it. 

• heretic
• diplomacy
• veil
• impose

The football team _________________(ed) down the field and easily scored a touchdown against West Montgomery.

• advance
• emphatic
• ashen
• insightful

Please do not try to _________________ your rules in my classroom; my name is on the door and I make the rules.

• impose
• diplomacy
• heretic
• insightful

Ana's response to the reading was so _________________ that the entire class wondered if she was really that smart or if she cheated.

• insightful
• impose
• heretic
• diplomacy

Kerry's use of ___________________ is a useful trait that allows him to work well with others in difficult situations. 

• diplomacy
• heretic
• emphatic
• veil

Anna was _________________ that she had not stolen my sweater and worn it to school one day.

• emphatic
• insightful
• appease
• ashen

Generally, ________________(s) remain on the outskirts of society and do not have many friends because they are so different.

• heretic
• diplomacy
• impose
• veil

Lucy's _______________ color made everyone believe that she had a terrible disease and was extremely sick.

• ashen
• emphatic
• apparition
• appease