Vocabulary Quiz

• extort

• empirical

• equivocal

• extraneous

• elicited

• extraneous

• fortuitous

• equivocal

• fortuitous

• equivocal

• flagrant

• empirical

• extraneous

• elicited

• extort

• elicit

Her feelings about her son's choice of a wife were __________.

• elicited

• equivocal

• expedites

• emulate

She wished her son would __________ his hard-working father rather than these rock stars.

• extraneous

• emulate

• embezzling

• elicited

We had hoped that her answer would help us make our decision, but her reply was __________.

• extort

• extraneous

• elicit

• equivocal

Scientists use the __________ method so that their results can be verified.

• elicited

• empirical

• extorted

• fortuitous

Evidence for the effectiveness of this herb was __________.

• equivocal

• elicit

• emulate

• elicited

It is a __________ that simply being cold can cause one to catch a cold; there is always an infectious agent involved.

• flagrant

• equivocal

• embezzling

• fallacy