Vocabulary workshop D unit 1 Sentences all

The records of our club were in such a(n) ______ that we couldn't even determine which members had paid their dues.

• debris

• muddle

• diffuse

• deadlock

The doctor become more and more fearful that her patient's weakened condition would ______ him into pneumonia.

• salvage

• deadlock

• efface

• predispose

The rug made such a(n) ________ bundle that it took four of us to carry it up the stairs.

• cumbersome

• opinionated

• spasmodic

• circumspect

He is so ________ that he won't even consider the ideas or suggestions offered by other people.

• cumbersome

• opinionated

• spasmodic

• circumspect

The idea of a(n) ________ like Robin Hood who helps the poor appeals strongly to the popular imagination.

• salvage

• deadlock

• diffuse

• brigand

In order to capture the fleeing criminals, the police _______ our car and raced after the vanishing truck.

• diffuse

• predispose

• commandeer

• efface

The water pouring through the ______ in the dam threatened to flood the entire valley.

• diffuse

• breach

• deadlock

• dilemma 

The nurse rushed into the hospital corridor to ____ the visitors who were creating a disturbance.

• admonish

• predispose

• efface

• deadlock

Though all modern scholars accept Macbeth as Shakespeare's work, one or two of the scenes may be _______.

• opinionated

• spurious

• cumbersome

• circumspect

Many a teenager's room is strewn with clothing, CDs, and all sorts of ______.

• debris

• dilemma

• deadlock

• breach