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Vocabulary Workshop Level E Unit 1

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

How can you tell whether the chopped-meat patty you ate for lunch had been __________ with artificial coloring and other foreign substances?

a)

reiterated

b)

adulterated

c)

pliable

d)

intimation

2.

Many ballplayers can bat from either side of the plate, but the cannot throw well with each band unless they are __________.

a)

pliable

b)

fortified

c)

verbatim

d)

ambidextrous

3.

The company commander called his troops together and asked for more volunteers to __________ the strength of the raiding party.

a)

augment

b)

opulent

c)

unkempt

d)

gaped

4.

Perhaps I would be bored with the _________ lifestyle of a millionaire, but I'm willing to try it.

a)

opulent

b)

intimation

c)

gaped

d)

guise

5.

Why would someone who is usually so neat and well-dressed appear in public in such a(n) __________ state?

a)

ambidextrous

b)

unkempt

c)

verbatim

d)

reiterate

6.

As the magician's assistant seemed to vanish into thin air, the entire audience __________ in amazement.

a)

tentative

b)

reiterated

c)

deployed

d)

gaped

7.

Why should I be the object of all those __________ just because I'm wearing a three-piece suit on campus?

a)

wary

b)

gibes

c)

stolid

d)

dour

8.

In Shakespeare's famous tragedy Othello, Iago comes to Othello in the __________ of a friend but proves to be a deadly enemy.

a)

unkempt

b)

guise

c)

reiterate

d)

adulterate

9.

I recorded the speaker's presentation, but now I wish I had a software program that could help me transcribe the speech __________ so that I can find appropriate quotations to use in my report.

a)

verbatim

b)

dour

c)

bereft

d)

warily

10.

America's earliest settlers faced the hardships of life on the frontier with faith and __________.

a)

fortitude

b)

opulence

c)

pliable

d)

courage

11.

Having learned to respect the power in his opponents fists, the boxer moved __________ around the center of the ring.

a)

fortitude

b)

unkempt

c)

warily

d)

bereft

12.

Since his acceptance of the invitation was only __________, the host may be one man short at the dinner party.

a)

stolid

b)

pliable

c)

insidious

d)

tentative

13.

Her unchanging facial features and controlled voice as she received the news gave no __________ of her true feelings.

a)

intimation

b)

reiteration

c)

insidious

d)

dour

14.

What a tragedy that in the twilight of her life the unfortunate woman should be __________ of her loved ones.

a)

dour

b)

bereft

c)

stolid

d)

deployed

15.

At the risk of being boring, let me __________ my warning against careless driving.

a)

adulterate

b)

reiterate

c)

pliable

d)

umkempt

16.

The __________ expressions on the jurors' faces as they grimly filed back into the courtroom did not bode well for the dfendant.

a)

dour

b)

stolid

c)

tentative

d)

insidious

17.

We learned that beneath his __________ exterior there was a sensitive, highly subtle, and perceptive mind.

a)

deployed

b)

dour

c)

wary

d)

stolid

18.

To this day, historians are still debating whether or not Aaron Burr was guilty of a(n) __________ plot to break up the government.

a)

insidious

b)

dour

c)

tentative

d)

unkempt

19.

The twigs that were to be woven into the basket were soaked in water to make them more __________.

a)

wary

b)

pliable

c)

tentative

d)

dour

20.

An experienced baseball manager __________ is outfielders according to the strengths and weaknesses on the opposing batters.

a)

gapes

b)

deploys

c)

guises

d)

fortifies