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WorksheetsList 9 Vocabulary
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 20mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
The staff there has been idle since last March, when the insurgents angrily called off __________ talks with the Americans.
a)
tentative
b)
cryptic
c)
ephemeral
d)
hedonistic
2.
In the act, Aldred's _________ failed her; she stopped again, and was silent.
a)
tentative
b)
resolution
c)
lamentation
d)
hedonism
3.
Interest rates will soar, home values will __________, stock markets will crash, and global economies will crater.
a)
bolster
b)
plummet
c)
accolade
d)
resolution
4.
Israel has destroyed 80% of the ones they have found, and needs only a few days to __________ the rest.
a)
bolster
b)
plummet
c)
cryptic
d)
obliterate
5.
In the meanwhile, Mother Michel had passed the night in __________.
a)
hedonism
b)
resolution
c)
tentative
d)
lamentation
6.
She knew him to be a __________, a materialist, a man who had very few scruples.
a)
epicure
b)
hedonist
c)
lamentation
d)
bolster
7.
Did Stewart and Colbert strike a blow for sanity, or just furnish an afternoon's __________ entertainment?
a)
ephemeral
b)
hedonistic
c)
tentative
d)
accolade
8.
With these __________ words he slid off the bed, taking with him the large old-fashioned Bible which always lay by Nanna's bedside.
a)
ephemeral
b)
tentative
c)
cryptic
d)
accolade
9.
At least the center-left is asking what needs to be done next to __________ U.S. interests.
a)
plummet
b)
tentative
c)
obliterate
d)
bolster
10.
Thus he won the __________ of his peers as a worthy horse-man of the hills.
a)
accolade
b)
resloution
c)
ephemeral
d)
bolster
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