Shutting Out the Sky: 6.1.3 (Vocabulary Practice)

Select the best word choice that matches the following definition:

a risky or daring journey or undertaking.

• friend

• lead

• venture

• errant

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the complete loss or absence of hope.

• hopeful

• joyous

• jubilant

• despair

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in a manner resulting from or revealing nervousness or anxiety.

• neglect

• anxiously

• confidence

• whet

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full of energy and enthusiasm.

• antique

• blighted

• vibrant

• sluggish

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construct; create or establish

• erect

• fly

• alight

• whip

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frown in an angry or bad-tempered way.

• grin

• scowl

• gape

• gaze

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desire and determination to achieve success.

• ambition

• lose

• upend

• trial

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a language used by Jewish people in central and eastern Europe before the Holocaust. It was originally a German dialect with words from Hebrew and several modern languages and is today spoken mainly in the US, Israel, and Russia.

• Narnian

• Yiddish

• Elfish

• Arabic

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the inability to read or write.

• ignoble

• illiterate

• scholar

• educated

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an educational talk to an audience, especially to students in higher education

• rhyme

• lecture

• balance

• equation