Week 4 Quiz -G10

The dirt-filled runoff from the storm has _____ the water in the pool so that it is now unfit for swimming.

• adulterated

• augmented

• gibed

• reiterated

We watched the performer show her _____ talents, first juggling five balls with one hand, then using the other with equal skill.

• bereft

• unkempt

• verbatim

• ambidextrous

When the team manager saw that his star player would command a much higher salary with another team, he decided to _____ the player's salary by almost a third.

• deploy

• augment

• gibed

• reiterate

Her family’s prospective move from Caracas, Venezuela, to Columbus, Ohio, grieved Gloria more than it excited her, for she would be _____ of all her friends in an unfamiliar culture with a language she could not understand.

• bereft

• opulent

• insidious

• unkempt

When the protagonist in the novel Silas Marner begins caring for a young girl, he changes from a(n) _____, gloomy man to someone with a genial outlook.

• ambidextrous

• insidious

• opulent

• dour