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Wordly Wise Book 9 Lesson 14

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 4hrs 45mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The seller of the classic car accepted my first offer with such ______ that I wished I had offered less.

a)

array

b)

alacrity

c)

fraught

d)

laggard.

2.

The ship's cabin contained an _________ of charts and maps.

a)

alacrity

b)

array

c)

inconvertible

d)

ubiquitous

3.

Your carrying an umbrella leads me to ____ that you expect it to rain.

a)

deduce

b)

allude

c)

exhort

d)

implicate

4.

I stumbled through the terminal door, ______ by my two heavy suitcases.

a)

deduced

b)

encumbered

c)

traversed

d)

exhorted

5.

We abandoned our idea of traveling up the Amazon River when we learned that such a trip would be ______ with danger.

a)

arrayed

b)

fraught

c)

haphazard

d)

incontrovertible

6.

The disappearance of many ships and planes within the Atlantic Ocean's Bermuda Triangle is _______ to me.

a)

laggard

b)

inexplicable

c)

pensive

d)

pomp

7.

He described in humorous detail his _____ travels around Europe.

a)

haphazard

b)

ingenious

c)

torrid

d)

ubiquitous

8.

Disposing of garbage by converting it into energy is an ____ idea.

a)

inexplicable

b)

ingenious

c)

ubiquitous

d)

incontrovertible

9.

We have been ______ in getting the roof repaired.

a)

torrid

b)

laggard

c)

traverse

d)

inexplicable

10.

Roots and berries provided ______ for the sailors when the storm forced them to abandon ship and take refuge on the island.

a)

zenith

b)

sustenance

c)

pomp

d)

dote

11.

It was impossible to walk barefoot on the ______ desert sand.

a)

torrid

b)

pomp

c)

ubiquitous

d)

pensive

12.

Route 66, which ______ the United States from Chicago to Los Angeles, is sometimes called "The Mother Road" because in 1932 it opened the West to the automobile.

a)

laments

b)

traverses

c)

traumas

d)

consecrates

13.

Tourists with cameras are _____ in Europe every summer.

a)

laggard

b)

ubiquitous

c)

sustenance

d)

ingenious

14.

Winning the Nobel Prize for literature is, for some writers, the _____ of their career.

a)

laggard

b)

pomp

c)

traverse

d)

zenith

15.

His statement that carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are increasing is _______.

a)

alacrity

b)

incontrovertible

c)

encumber

d)

deduce