Sravar week one assessment

Since they lived in different states, the young couple had spent a lot of time apart; when they finally saw each other they realized that they had _______________ the other and were disappointed with what was in front of them.

• amicabled

• aboded

• aggrandized

• agitated

Having lost his wife to the bubonic plague, the young man fell into ______________ sadness that did not lift until life provided him with a companion 25 years later.

Finding my missing phone is ______________ to trying to find a needle in a haystack--it was pretty hopeless.

• anomaly

• analogous

• beget

• apparition

The youth quaked as they heard a strange sound; they never should have broken into the haunted house which was filled with ________________

• apparitions

• begets

• censures

• affluents

The seating chart had previously been ____________, but the teacher had to be more deliberate in assigning seats during second quarter to prevent cheating.

• anomaly

• abject

• arbitrary

• analogous

When hard times hit the community, many people turned to the ______ man who lived just outside of town. it was well known that he would help everyone he could.

• anomaly

• benevolent

• analogous

• censure

While he loved his wife very much, he felt nothing but __________ toward his in-laws, which put a strain on their marriage.

• abject

• antipathy

• bestow

• abode

The young representative received a _________ after his foolish and dangerous acts were published by a respectable newspaper.

• abject

• affluent

• amicable

• censure

The scientist assured the worried townspeople that the strange lights at night were merely a meteorological _____________ and not the arrival of aliens.

• apparition

• anomaly

• agitate

• amicable

Planting seeds in the spring is the only way to ________ a harvest in the fall.

• abject

• affluent

• beget

• abode