Vocabulary Building Unit4

The young mother showed a lot of ______ with her child.

• patience

• patiences

• patient

• patiently

The audience was ______ when the band was late coming to the stage. (The audience's still there.)

• patient

• patiently

• impatient

• impatiently

The speaker gave an ______ talk on how to help others in need.

• inspiration

• inspirations

• inspired

• inspiring

My brother was ______ by his teacher to study astronomy.

• inspiration

• inspires

• inspired

• inspiring

My mother doesn't like to be ______when she is doing her yoga exercises.

• disturbance

• disturbs

• disturbed

• disturbing

There was a ______ in the class when a bird flew in through the open window.

• disturbance

• disturb

• disturbed

• disturbing

They ______rain, but the sun came out instead.

• expect

• expects

• expected

• expecting

In spite of their high ______, the team lost the championship.

• expectations

• expectation

• expected

• expecting

Years of training gave the athlete ______ to try for the Olympics.

• confidences

• confidence

• confident

• confidently

She was ______ that she would pass her driver's test.

• confidences

• confidence

• confident

• confidently