Vocabulary Unit 7 Fill in the Blanks

1. The top of Mount Everest is called the _______.

• apex
• adieu
• advent
• metropolis
• vagrant

2. Some people live in a small town or hamlet; other people live in a crowded ________.

• metropolis
• adieu
• advent
• vagrant
• apex

3. People from Hawaii say, "aloha" which means both "hello," and also ______.

• adieu
• advent
• metropolis
• vagrant
• apex

4. The invention of the printing press led to the __________ of mass-produced books and newspapers.

• advent
• adieu
• metropolis
• vagrant
• apex

5. Using no capital letters, please write in the word that means "wanderer" or "homeless traveler."

6. Using no capital letters, please write in the word that means "an in-between time" or the "meanwhile."

7. If someone important in your life directed one of these at you, you might cry.

8. The tough thing about listening one of Ted's stories is that he never gets to the point; he just sort of ___________ through a bunch of unrelated details.

• inundates

• maligns

• assimilates

• meanders

9. Over the weekend, teacher only gave one assignment because she didn't want to ______________ her students with too much homework.

• inundate
• malign
• assimilate
• meander

10. In the early 1900s, the immigrants who arrived in the United States lived mostly in their own ethnic communites, but gradually, these immigrants took on American habits and beliefs and began to ___________ to their new country.

• inundate
• malign
• assimilate
• meander