Vocabulary Workshop Level F Unit 6 Choosing The Right Word Answers – Flashcards
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A favorite ploy of the ______ is to appoint a convenient scapegoat upon whom a misguided populace can vent its anger.
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Demogogue
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By casting ______ on the ability and character of others, you reveal the misgivings you have about yourself.
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Aspersions
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The task of education, said the speaker, is to ______ the primitive selfishness of the child into socially useful modes of behavior.
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Transmute
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His conduct after his mother's death was so ______ that I must conclude he was not in full possession of his faculties.
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Anomalous
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With the innumerable activities open to a young person like you, I can't understand why you should suffer from ______.
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Ennui
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I cannot understand how she was able to ______ a meeting between two people who had refused to have anything to do with each other.
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Contrive
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If, as they now claim, they were not aware of the illegal character of their undertaking why did they plan it so ______?
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Surreptitiously
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The President complained that government bureaucracy was hobbling his programs with ______ of red tape.
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Fetters
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He's so tight with his money that it's just about impossible to ______ a nickel out of him, no matter how worthy the cause.
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Cajole
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Her description of the Western frontier was so vivid that I seemed to be ______ experiencing the realities of prisoner life.
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Vicariously
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In Gulliver's Travels and other writings, Jonathan Swift ______ the human race for its follies and wickedness.
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Castigated
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Her opinion of her own importance is so grotesquely exaggerated that we have come to regard her as a ______.
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Megalomaniac
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He may have kept within the letter of the law, but there is no doubt that he has ______ the accepted moral code.
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Transgressed
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For ancient Romans, fleeing from the battlefield was the most ______ act of cowardice a soldier could commit.
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Heinous
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The institutions of our society, far from being ______, are in the process of change at this very moment.
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Immutable
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A(n) ______ group at the convention refused to accept the choices of the regular party leaders.
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Insurgent
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Have you ever heard of anything as ______ as an experimental technique to test the intelligence of cows!
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Bizarre
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What hurt my feelings was not so much his refusal to give me a job as the ______ way in which he told me that he had nothing for me.
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Brusque
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Although her new position bore a high-sounding title, it was really little more than a(n) ______.
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Sinecure
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Although she is well into middle age, my aunt Sally seems unable to ______ herself of the idea that she is still a teenager.
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Disabuse
