Sadlier Vocabulary Workshop Level A Unit 10

On the baseball team, Matt is a natural leader, always taking the _____ to motivate and inspire other players.

• initiative

• consequence

• resourceful

• unerring

the taking of the first step or move; he ability to act without being directed or urged from the outside

• initiative

• nonconformist

• panorama

• foil

blundering and awkward; clumsiness

• bumbling

• abominable

• dole

• engulf

Before a passenger plane is released for use, it undergoes a(n) _____________________, all-points inspection.

• bumbling

• rigorous

• abominable

• panoramic

The conspirators hoped to topple the ruler from her throne, but clever secret agents _____ their plot.

• unerred

• bumbled

• foiled

• refurbished

to pull loose by force; to look at closely or inquisitively; to be nosy about something

• pry

• refurbish

• resourceful

• subsequent

a wide, unobstructed view of an area; a complete survey of a subject; a continuously passing or changing scene; a range of spectrum

• initiative

• nonconformist

• panorama

• foil

Sometimes _____ are really not rebels but rather explorers eager to find a new way of thinking or a new way of doing things.

• posterity

• foils

• nonconformists

• mementos

-to give out small amounts

-money, food, or other necessities given as charity; a small portion

• bumbling

• abominable

• dole

• engulf

When the white blood cells of the body find a foreign organism, they surround, _____, and digest it.

• bumble

• null and void

• pry

• engulf