7th grade Unit 9 Vocabulary Practice

Complete the sentence with the best vocabulary word:

The hikers needed to ______________________ their pace once it became clear that it would soon rain.

• ratify

• accelerate

• stifle

• persist

Complete the sentence with the best vocabulary word:

The students volunteered to ________________ the neighborhood for our candidate.

• erode

• entice

• stifle

• canvass

Complete the sentence with the best vocabulary word:

It must have been the gloom of the house and the steady rain that made me feel so _________________________.

• melancholy

• gruesome

• puny

• regal

Complete the sentence with the best vocabulary word:

Even though the buyer and seller did have a _____________________, both parties soon came to an agreement.

• ratify

• flounder

• quibble

• ordeal

Complete the sentence with the best vocabulary word:

Unable to _________________ her anger, the sculptor lashed out at her harshest critic.

• stifle

• parch

• erode

• entice

Complete the sentence with the best vocabulary word:

Most of the immigrants at Ellis Island represented the _______________ masses yearning to be free.

• casual

• downtrodden

• regal

• melancholy

Complete the sentence with the best vocabulary word:

After suffering much damage in the storm, the small boat was left to ______________________ about helplessly.

• persist

• flounder

• erode

• stifle

Complete the sentence with the best vocabulary word:

The fields of Oklahoma were _______________ by drought in the 1930s.

• stifled

• ratified

• quibbled

• parched

Complete the sentence with the best vocabulary word:

Storms and mudslides _________________ the road so that eventually it became impassable.

• floundered

• enticed

• floundered

• eroded

Complete the sentence with the best vocabulary word:

A witness gave the reporter a _____________________ account of the destruction caused by the tornado.

• graphic

• melancholy

• puny

• regal