Vocabulary Workshop Level B Unit A

A family that ruled over the British Empire for some time would be known as a 

• dynasty
• foretaste
• truce
• resume

Which of the following is the opposite of gush?

• renovate
• trickle
• recompense
• insinuate

A friend who is brooding because of resentment over something that happened can be described as

• trivial
• interminable
• humdrum
• sullen

To suggest or hint slyly is to

• germinate
• alight
• insinuate
• disrupt

If an old theater has been restored to good condition, it has been

• disrupted
• germinated
• recompensed
• renovated

Which of the following is another word for cease-fire?

• truce
• resume
• dynasty
• foretaste

They could board a plane in New York and alight in London only three hours later.

Alight means

• touch down
• take off
• live temporarily
• travel

A synonym of interminable is

• short
• fleeting
• uncomfortable
• endless

If a plane hurtled through the air, it moved

• slowly
• noiselessly
• forcefully
• unsteadily

Perhaps they offer a foretaste of the future as well, since there are projects underway to build new airplanes that would make super fast flights a possibility again.

Foretaste means

• explanation
• preview
• technology
• memory