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Vocabulary Unit 13 Level B

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Most people know the story of Cinderella, a poor, mistreated ------------ who marries a Prince and lives happily ever after.

a)

waif

b)

impediment

2.

Your outstanding report card and teacher evaluations ------------------- to the fact that when you apply yourself, you can be successful.

a)

attest

b)

Adapt

3.

Many add campaigns deliberately ------------ the superiority of a product over all its competition.

a)

Loiter

b)

Vaunt

4.

The ---------------- of the construction project will provide hundreds of jobs for people over the next five years.

a)

foreboding

b)

enormity

5.

People who migrate from the suburbs to the city often find it difficult to -------------------- to the noise and crowded conditions.

a)

adapt

b)

dovetail

6.

1- Thinking it no crime to borrow from the past, Elizabeth dramatists, often ---------------- ancient writing for suitable plots.

a)

vilified

b)

plundered

7.

In the opening scene of Shakespeare's Macbeth, there is a strong sense of ---------------------- that something terrible is going to happen.

a)

enormity

b)

foreboding

8.

The police sometimes use laws against ----------------- to prevent the gathering of unruly crowds.

a)

loitering

b)

faltering

9.

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.

a)

imperative

b)

impediment

10.

Mutual respect and understanding among all racial and ethnic groups remain a/an ----------------- in the life of this new nation.

a)

imperative

b)

waif

11.

The ------------------- advice given by Ben Franklin in Poor Richards’ Almanac has rarely been equaled for its good common sense.

a)

haughty

b)

pithy

12.

Despite our own exhaustion, we made one final, ---------------------- attempt to save the drowning swimmer, but our efforts were to no avail.

a)

pithy

b)

forlorn

13.

Monday morning seems to be a favorite time for the employees to practice the fine art of -----------------

a)

foreboding

b)

malingering

14.

I believe that it is ---------------- that we protect our lakes, rivers, and wetlands as they provide us with clean drinking water.

a)

imperative

b)

adopt

15.

“I did what I thought best at that time,” The president replied, “and I will deeply resent their cowardly attempts to ------------- my actions.”

a)

vilify

b)

plunder

16.

Ample food supplies in the United States --------------- to the abilities of the American farmers.

a)

vilify

b)

attest

17.

For a time, it was fashionable for supermodels to look like (- ), but that undernourished look has lost its appeal.

a)

waifs

b)

loiterers

18.

To (- ) now at the very threshold of victory, would mean that all our earlier struggles and sacrifices had been in vain.

a)

falter

b)

simper

19.

When she learned that she had not been chosen for the job, she made a ------------------ joke, but this did not conceal her deep disappointment.

a)

forlorn

b)

wry

20.

Her ------------------- attitude towards those who he considered “beneath him” was a sure sign of lack of breeding and simple, good manners.

a)

steadfast

b)

haughty

21.

The director told him to smile like a “dashing man about town”, but all you could do was ---------------- like a confused freshman.

a)

Simper

b)

adapt

22.

Political leaders should feel free to change their minds on specific issues while remaining ------------- in their support of their principles.

a)

steadfast

b)

wry

23.

Hordes of savage barbarians swept into the providence, committing one -------------- after another on the defenseless population.

a)

impediment

b)

enormity

24.

The temperament of the partners in the business ------------- so well that they can work together without the slightest friction or conflict.

a)

dovetail

b)

attest

25.

Dexter, our beagle, looks so --------------- when we leave him behind.

a)

forlorn

b)

vilified