Vocabulary Workshop Level B Unit 12

Complete the sentence with the best vocabulary word:

It must have been the gloom of the house and the steady rain that made me feel so _________________________.

• melancholy

• gruesome

• puny

• regal

Complete the sentence with the best vocabulary word:

Even though the buyer and seller did have a _____________________, both parties soon came to an agreement.

• ratify

• flounder

• quibble

• ordeal

Complete the sentence with the best vocabulary word:

Unable to _________________ her anger, the sculptor lashed out at her harshest critic.

• stifle

• parch

• erode

• entice

Complete the sentence with the best vocabulary word:

The fields of Oklahoma were _______________ by drought in the 1930s.

• stifled

• ratified

• quibbled

• parched

The wrestler let out a coarse burst of laughter when his _____________ opponent entered the ring.

• puny

• entice

• stifle

The legislature of three-fourths of the states must _____________ an amendment to the Constitution.

• regal

• parch

• ratify

The two families pooled their resources to give the bride and groom a truly ________________ wedding.

• graphic

• regal

• casual

Choose the word that is a synonym for vital. 

• majestic
• haphazard 
• indispensable
• undersized 

Choose the word that is a synonym for ordeal. 

• trauma
• cinch
• observer
• survey 

Choose the word that is a synonym for ratify. 

• endorse
• cancel
• sicken
• corrode