vocabulary ch. 5

Students were surprised when the principal agreed to ________ their proposal for a longer lunch period.

• endorse

• erode

• impact

• imply

After two hours of a boring lecture, the student's enthusiasm for having a guest speaker began to ________.

• endorse

• erode

• impact

• imply

For Halloween, my friends had a competition to wear the most _______ costume.

• idealistic

• novice

• gruesome

• hypocrite

Shelby claims to be such a kind person, though she says nasty things about her classmates behind their backs. She is a complete ___________.

• novice

• gruesome

• obstacle

• hypocrite

When she was still in high school, Sarah wanted to work to save the world. She was so ________.

• gruesome

• idealistic

• hypocritical

• illusory

A good magician can make it seem that an object has disappeared into thin air, although that is just a(n) ____________.

• obstacle

• impact

• illusion

• novice

Steven's cell phone hit the ground with such _______ that its screen cracked.

• impact

• obstacle

• illusion

• erosion

When I told my teacher that my homework was finished, he __________ that I was not telling the truth.

• impacted

• endorsed

• eroded

• implied

I did not expect to win the chess tournament because I only started playing a few months ago. I considered myself to be a(n) ______________.

• obstacle

• novice

• illusion

• idealist

After the wind storm, there were so many ________ in the road between home and school

• obstacles

• novices

• impacts

• illusions