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Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 16mins
His (a) was short-lived, and as the photo shoot approached, he began calling me with technical questions.
This year’s spring (a) whizzed by with barely a murmur.
When we finished our pizza, Cade asked me, “How much is five (a) in dollars?
But first they were unmade, their edges fading like the (a) - white bird, Wraith, as it phased through the skin of the sky.
A brief coda added for an (a) but still unsuccessful Japanese release flashes forward to the French Revolution, identifying Jeanne with Eugène Delacroix’s 1830 painting “Liberty Leading the People.”
Then Trump laughed at a reporter’s (a) suggestion that he consider donning a disguise.
Though Scottish by birth, he grew up in the far south of England, in the New Forest of Hampshire, because his mother was convinced that Scots were (a) drunks.
Overnight LLC, led by producer Rick Schwartz, accuses Kaufman of breach of contract, breach of (a) duty and misappropriation of corporate opportunity in a lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court.
“Good thing,” Alex says, “I (a) one of my professors into agreeing a question on our last exam was misleading so I would get full credit for my answer, which was correct.”
As she walked about the yellowing hillsides or worked at easy tasks, her lips were curled in a perpetual (a) smile.
Indicating favorable circumstances and good luck
deleterious
auspicious
abrogate
acumen
Having a bad disposition
bowdlerize
belie
churlish
enervate
to free from slavery or servitude
enfranchise
antebellum
bellicose
abstemious
marked by temperance in indulgence
auspicious
abjure
acumen
abstemious
edit by omitting or modifying parts considered offensive
belie
bellicose
bowdlerize
auspicious
This word means lacking intelligence. When your mom says you can't call your brother stupid, use this word instead.
(a)
Beginning Nov. 4, 1979 , dozens of U.S. diplomats were held hostage by Iranian Islamic revolutionaries for 444 days while America’s feckless president, Jimmy Carter, fretted in the White House. …The same Islamic fanatics who took our diplomats hostage are racing to build a nuclear bomb. Barack Obama, America’s most feckless president since Carter, has declared such an outcome unacceptable, but his rhetoric has not been matched by an effective policy. While Obama frets in the White House, the Iranians are making rapid progress toward obtaining the most destructive weapons in the history of the world.
The word feckless means
competent
ineffective
strong
effectual
We get this word from the Old English beleogan, which meant to "deceive by lying"
This word is....
factuous
auspicious
bowdlerize
belie
This word indicates a more dramatic way to declare your rejection of something you once felt or believed.
Latin translation:
ab means away
jurare means to swear
auspicious
abjure
abstemious
antebellum
The opposite of evanescent is
vanish
fleeting
transient
unlimited
