Noughts and Crosses One. Sephy

If you've ever become so frustrated with someone or something that you feel like you're at the end of your rope, you have experienced __________. You are fed up!

If you think public officials are nothing but a bunch of greedy buffoons, you have a __________ attitude about politics.

__________ describes something that's done with longing or regret. You might smile _________ while sitting on a train that's pulling away from the station, leaving your hometown behind.

Something __________ is flashing briefly and sharply with light. __________ conversations are smart and captivating.

You know how you feel when you can't open a jar of pickles? That's called feeling _________, or lacking strength.

His remarks aimed to lift the nation's dour mood and show he is in touch with the daily struggles of millions of people as resentment runs high about lost jobs and the economy.

In this sentence, dour means:

• recklessly wasteful

• showing modest reserve

• unpleasantly loud and harsh

• showing a brooding ill humor

The White House must also placate investors nervous about deficit spending as it seeks to stimulate job growth.
In this sentence, placate means to:

• cause to be more favorably inclined

• make insensitive

• force to go away

• make unable to perform a certain action

To __________ is to stop or end. Your gym teacher may have trained the class so well that all chattering will _________ every time she blows her whistle.

The unemployment rate, however, is expected to remain as high as 10.5 percent through Election Day in November, as discouraged people who have left the job market decide to resume their search.

In this sentence, resume means to:

• write about

• cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious

• take up or begin anew

• secure and keep for possible future use or application

He put the question rather hurriedly; he seemed half to expect ________, or at least a disdainful rejection of the offer: not knowing all my thoughts and feelings, though guessing some, he could not tell in what light the lot would appear to me.

• an invisible

• a picturesque

• a compound

• an indignant