Vocabulary for the College Bound

Most people know the story of Cinderella, a poor, mistreated ------------ who marries a Prince and lives happily ever after.

• waif

• impediment

Your outstanding report card and teacher evaluations ------------------- to the fact that when you apply yourself, you can be successful.

• attest

• Adapt

Many add campaigns deliberately ------------ the superiority of a product over all its competition.

• Loiter

• Vaunt

The ---------------- of the construction project will provide hundreds of jobs for people over the next five years.

• foreboding

• enormity

People who migrate from the suburbs to the city often find it difficult to -------------------- to the noise and crowded conditions.

• adapt

• dovetail

1- Thinking it no crime to borrow from the past, Elizabeth dramatists, often ---------------- ancient writing for suitable plots.

• vilified

• plundered

In the opening scene of Shakespeare's Macbeth, there is a strong sense of ---------------------- that something terrible is going to happen.

• enormity

• foreboding

The police sometimes use laws against ----------------- to prevent the gathering of unruly crowds.

• loitering

• faltering

No matter how well qualified you may be, an inability to get on well with other people will prove a serious ---------------- in any field of work.

• imperative

• impediment

Mutual respect and understanding among all racial and ethnic groups remain a/an ----------------- in the life of this new nation.

• imperative

• waif