chapter 5 vocab quiz

In the days of the Wild West, charlatans sold “snake oil” as a remedy for everything from baldness to insanity. Choose the best response for "charlatan."

• an investor

• an expert

• a con artist

You claim you were at a soccer game when the crime was committed. Can anyone corroborate your story? Choose the best response for "corroborate."

• to question

• to support

• to understand

What would be the best way to disseminate information about the next school board meeting? It’s important for all parents to attend. Choose the best response for "disseminate."

• to spread

• to conceal

• to improve

In a well-known poem, Robert Frost uses a branching path as a symbol of life’s decisions: “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by.” Choose the best response for "diverge."

• to separate

• to unite

• to disappear

Many insects lay eggs that remain dormant all winter and do not hatch until spring, in the warmer weather. Choose the best response for "dormant."

• not active

• irreversible

• growing

Let’s go over to the construction site and watch the crane hoist the beams into place for the new skyscraper. Choose the best response for "hoist."

• to follow

• to display

• to raise

Years of illicit activities resulted in Gene's being sentenced to serve a life term in prison. Ted's business is illicit: he drives an unlicensed passenger van along a route that's supposed to be used only by city buses.

• fake

• unlawful

• unprofitable

Layla would like to break off her engagement to Ahmed, but she feels that her promise to marry him is irrevocable. Giving a child up for adoption has become a subject of debate. Should the mother be allowed to change her mind, or should her decision be irrevocable?

• not reversible

• mistaken

• not certain

Mark's search for a larger house was precipitated by his marriage to a woman with four children. The discovery that Elliot had been setting off fires precipitated his parents' decision to send him to a child psychologist.

• to bring on

• to prevent

• to permit

Hanna's doctors hope that chemotherapy will halt the proliferation of cancer cells in her body. The proliferation of dandelions in my yard is too much for me to handle. They are growing faster than I can destroy them.

• damage

• a shortage

• a rapid increase