WorksheetsVocabulary Unit 13 Level B
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
Most people know the story of Cinderella, a poor, mistreated ------------ who marries a Prince and lives happily ever after.
waif
impediment
Your outstanding report card and teacher evaluations ------------------- to the fact that when you apply yourself, you can be successful.
attest
Adapt
Many add campaigns deliberately ------------ the superiority of a product over all its competition.
Loiter
Vaunt
The ---------------- of the construction project will provide hundreds of jobs for people over the next five years.
foreboding
enormity
People who migrate from the suburbs to the city often find it difficult to -------------------- to the noise and crowded conditions.
adapt
dovetail
1- Thinking it no crime to borrow from the past, Elizabeth dramatists, often ---------------- ancient writing for suitable plots.
vilified
plundered
In the opening scene of Shakespeare's Macbeth, there is a strong sense of ---------------------- that something terrible is going to happen.
enormity
foreboding
The police sometimes use laws against ----------------- to prevent the gathering of unruly crowds.
loitering
faltering
No matter how well qualified you may be, an inability to get on well with other people will prove a serious ---------------- in any field of work.
imperative
impediment
Mutual respect and understanding among all racial and ethnic groups remain a/an ----------------- in the life of this new nation.
imperative
waif
The ------------------- advice given by Ben Franklin in Poor Richards’ Almanac has rarely been equaled for its good common sense.
haughty
pithy
Despite our own exhaustion, we made one final, ---------------------- attempt to save the drowning swimmer, but our efforts were to no avail.
pithy
forlorn
Monday morning seems to be a favorite time for the employees to practice the fine art of -----------------
foreboding
malingering
I believe that it is ---------------- that we protect our lakes, rivers, and wetlands as they provide us with clean drinking water.
imperative
adopt
“I did what I thought best at that time,” The president replied, “and I will deeply resent their cowardly attempts to ------------- my actions.”
vilify
plunder
Ample food supplies in the United States --------------- to the abilities of the American farmers.
vilify
attest
For a time, it was fashionable for supermodels to look like (- ), but that undernourished look has lost its appeal.
waifs
loiterers
To (- ) now at the very threshold of victory, would mean that all our earlier struggles and sacrifices had been in vain.
falter
simper
When she learned that she had not been chosen for the job, she made a ------------------ joke, but this did not conceal her deep disappointment.
forlorn
wry
Her ------------------- attitude towards those who he considered “beneath him” was a sure sign of lack of breeding and simple, good manners.
steadfast
haughty
The director told him to smile like a “dashing man about town”, but all you could do was ---------------- like a confused freshman.
Simper
adapt
Political leaders should feel free to change their minds on specific issues while remaining ------------- in their support of their principles.
steadfast
wry
Hordes of savage barbarians swept into the providence, committing one -------------- after another on the defenseless population.
impediment
enormity
The temperament of the partners in the business ------------- so well that they can work together without the slightest friction or conflict.
dovetail
attest
Dexter, our beagle, looks so --------------- when we leave him behind.
forlorn
vilified
