EB Vocabulary

He studied both law and medicine, but found his real _____________________ in politics

• barrage

• aficionado

• vocation

• genre

From the very first sentence, the writer must grab the reader's attention and ____________________ them to read until the book is completely finished.

• stupefy

• compel

• barrage

• incomprehensible

The thought of how people can sleep comfortably on a floor mat in Thailand is ________________________ to foreigners.

• unscrupulous

• sage

• incomprehensible

• disquieting

Include or enclose

• anarchy

• encompass

• reverberate

• feasible

Able to be done; reasonable

• pithy

• benign

• commemorate

• feasible

harmless; gentle

• benign

• encompass

• glut

• avid

an excess of something

• blase

• pithy

• glut

• reverberate

brief but full of meaning

• pithy

• anarchy

• avid

• commemorate

an absence of government; lawlessness

• benign

• anarchy

• reverberate

• glut

eager and enthusiastic

• feasible

• blase

• avid

• glut