ELA8 week19 Quiz review

We were prepared to make an angry complaint to the salesclerk, but her ____________ manner soon put us in a friendlier mood.

• disarming

• disgruntled

• awry

The parents promised that they would not meddle with or ___________ the privacy of their married children.

• encroach

• capitulate

• chafe

Shoes that will not _________ your feet are the most important piece of equipment you will need for a hike.

• chafe

• encroach

• defile

There's an old saying that tells us that if you walk like a duck and talk like a duck, people are ____ to take you for a duck.

• apt

• dire

• disarming

The brave soldiers defending the fort _________ only when they realized that further resistance was useless.

• capitulated

• defiled

• disgruntled

The Scottish poet Robert burns reminds us that no matter how carefully we plan, things may still go _________.

• awry

• apt

• disarming

In my opinion, the country side is ______________ by billboards that block our view of the beauties of nature.

• defiled

• disgruntled

• encroached

Even though you are _______________ because the candidate you favored did not win the nomination, you should still vote in the election.

• disgruntled

• defile

• awry

Some people have the unpleasant habit of verbally ____________ their opponents in an argument by loudly repeating a single phrase.

• bludgeoning

• defiling

• disarming

Let us hope that scientists are wrong in their ____________  predictions that there will be a major earthquake in our region.

• dire

• awry

• disgruntled