Vocabulary Lesson 15+

Ben's habitual attire of T-shirt and jeans expressed his casual attitude about his ___ appearance.

• satire

• svelte

• sartorial

• foist

Cranberries are ___ and require sweetening to make them palatable.

• acerbic

• insipid

• paean

• misconstrue

She strode onto the stage with a(n) ___ attitude that elicited only polite rather than enthusiastic applause.

• sartorial

• overweening

• repartee

• acerbic

I'm afraid I ___ her silence as agreement and went ahead with the project.

• narcissism

• repine

• debonair

• misconstrued

The ___ between the rock star and her accompanist had the fans at the concert laughing repeatedly.

• repine

• deign

• repartee

• canard

The writer's ___ was blatant in his repeated use of the word "I" in his memoirs.

• narcissism

• dotage

• paean

• overweening

King Lear was in his ___ when he foolishly decided to divide his kingdom among his daughters.

• dotage

• foist

• repartee

• foist

The newspaper story that claimed the athlete was distracted by problems at home was actually a ___ concocted by her competitors.

• insipid

• misconstrue

• svelte

• canard

___ ballerinas played the part of the swans.

• sartorial

• svelte

• deign

• debonair

In his drama Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw creates "of class" who ___ to interact with one beneath his social status.

• repines

• foists

• deigns

• dotage