Born a Crime Voc 3 (#25-30) definition/connotation/fill-in-blank

I kept getting pelted with a ____ of snowballs from all the other kids at recess.

• barrage

• bureaucracy

• meticulous

• unconscionable

• berate

Whether you live in a democracy or a dictatorship or something in between, there will always be ____ because civil servants will need to run the day-to-day operations of the government.

• bureaucracy

• meticulous

• sporadic

• barrage

• unconscionable

He was a ____ planner; he thought of everything and made the most thorough plans, down to the tiniest detail.

• meticulous

• berate

• sporadic

• barrage

• unconscionable

Slavery is ____--there's no way to justify it, no matter how much we love the cheap products we can get from slave labor.

• unconscionable

• meticulous

• barrage

• bureaucracy

• sporadic

He knew his mother would ____ him for cussing out his teacher, so he delayed going home so he could put off getting yelled at.

• berate

• sporadic

• unconscionable

• meticulous

• barrage

I can't always finish my homework because my internet connection at home is ____--it comes and goes with no discernable pattern.

• sporadic

• meticulous

• unconscionable

• berate

• barrage

Which of the following has the most positive connotation?

• meticulous

• barrage

• berate

• unconscionable

Match the vocab word to its definition

• berate

• to scold or criticize someone angrily; to yell at someone who you perceive to have done something wrong

• sporadic

• administrative system with hierarchical division of labor in which non-elective civil servants run things according to the rules & procedures of their department

• bureaucracy

• a rapid, overwhelming outpouring of many things at once

• barrage

• recurring in unpredictable instances

Match the vocab word to its definition

• sporadic

• not morally right or reasonable; immoral, indefensible, unjustifiable

• barrage

• thorough/detailed, painstakingly precise, methodical

• unconscionable

• bombardment, blitz

• meticulous

• occasional, irregular, scattered

Match the vocab to its specific connotation

• barrage

• angry

• unconscionable

• admirable

• meticulous

• evil

• bureaucracy

• violent

• berate

• tedious