Vocabulary Workshop Level B

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

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

He was an innocent _____ who was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Which word BEST COMPLETES this sentence?

• ratify

• quibble

• bystander

• stifle

Pollsters will _____ the area to see who is getting the most votes in the election.

Which word BEST COMPLETES this sentence?

• casual

• ordeal

• stifle

• canvass

She didn't want to see the pyramids because she knew the heat would _____ her lips

Which word BEST COMPLETES this sentence?

• flounder

• parch

• vital

• downtrodden

Which word MOST NEARLY matches the definition:

(v.) To move or act clumsily and in confusion; To have great difficulty with something

• flounder

• stifle

• quibble

• parch

Which word MOST NEARLY matches the definition:

(adj.) Giving a clear and effective picture; Vivid and lifelike

• gruesome

• casual

• graphic

• downtrodden