Vocabulary Workshop Level F Unit 11 Choosing the Right Word – Flashcards
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In a series of ______ attacks now known as the Philippics, Cicero launced his entire battery of political invective against the hapless Mark Anthony.
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Searing
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The most tragic aspect of a forest fire is its destructive ffects on the innumerable plant and animal ______ of that environment.
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Denizens
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Some English queens were strikingly elegant and impsing figures; others were somewhat ______ and unprepossessing.
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Dowdy
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Modern nutritionists emphasizer that there is a(n) ______ difference between "eating to live" and "living to eat."
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Palpable
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Let's not allow them to ______ on us ideas and programs that have been proved failures in other countries!
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Foist
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The study of history teaches us that many ideas regarded as ______ by one generation are accepted as sound and orthodox by the next.
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Heresies
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No doubt his efforts to advance his own interest were ______, but let's try to keep a sense of proportion and not condemn him too much.
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Censurable
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Before we start out to ______ certain principles in our young people, let's be very sure that these principles are tryly desirable for them and their society.
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Inculcate
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Her ______ writing style, abounding in adjectives and fancy metaphors, is far from suitable for factual newspaper stories.
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Florid
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Although the Declaration of Independence was framed only to justify a revolution in the Bridish colonies in North America, its ideas and ideals have been ______ throughout the world.
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Disseminated
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We are most likely to fall victim to ______ reasoning when we have an emotional desire to believe what we are being told.
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Specious
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All the available evidence ______ my theory that the theft was planned by somone familiar with the layout of the house.
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Corroborates
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Children are often remarkably ______ in understanding how adults feel about them.
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Perceptive
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Out of all the endless flow of dull verbiage in the long lecture, we could recognize only two or three ______ points.
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Salient
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As the Scottish poet Robert Burns aptly suggests, even the best laid plans are often entirely ______ on events over which we have no earthly control
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Contingent
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Although the essays are highly ______, covering a wide range of topics, they are written with such clarity and grace that they are easy to follow.
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Discursive
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She was so ______ that she esxtended her self-control even to her beloved books, and read them no more than an hour each day.
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Abstemious
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Though I rather like the bett TV game shows, I find that after a certain point, I'm ______ and ready for more substantial fare.
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Satiated
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He thought he was being witty and charming, but I reard his conduct at the party as altogether ______.
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Gauche
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The more we studied the drug problem, the more we became aware of its ______ influence on the American people today.
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Pernicioius
