Vocabulary Workshop Level F Unit 8 Choosing the Right Word – Flashcards
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A certain amount of disagreement is healthy in any organization, but in our club ______ has almost become a way of life.
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Dissension
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I noticed with some distaste how her usually overbearing manner became ______ when our employer joined the group.
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Subservient
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If we are going to be required to perform a(n) ______ version of the play, then I think it is not worth doing.
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Expurgated
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Imagine our ______ when the brakes failed and we headed full speed toward the busy intersection!
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Consternation
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Students who have been well trained in the social sciences should not be ______ to the cheap fallacies of racism.
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Susceptible
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The estate he had inherited from his father was ______ in a long series of impractical and/or mismanaged business enterprises.
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Dissipated
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Try your best to subdue your natural reluctance and make a ______ decision that will be in your son's best interests.
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Dispassionate
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My Spanish friend finds it hard to understand the ______ attached to bullfighting in most non-Hispanic countries.
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Odium
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Their ______ stares and obvious inability to understand the seriousness of the situation made me doubt their mental capacity.
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Bovine
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Though I was annoyed by the child's behavior, the father's outburst of anger seemed to me deplorably ______.
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Intemperate
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I am not ordinarily a ______ person, but the sight of that terrible automobile accident haunted me for weeks.
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Squeamish
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By reference to ______ cases, you may be able to clarify the difference between "murder" and "manslaughter" for the law students.
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Hypothetical
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It is not for me to ______ his motives, but how could anyone except an overambitious scoundrel have misled his friends in that way?
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Impugn
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Aren't you going a little far when you accuse me of ______ because I didn't vote for you in the beauty contest?
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Perfidy
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The retiring coach said he no longer had the stomach to run the ______ of critics who assailed him after every loss.
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Gauntlet
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There is often a thin line between the kind of debate that is spirited and useful and that which is ______ and nonproductive.
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Acrimonious
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Not too long ago in our society, a ______ body was generally admired as a sign of prosperity and physical vigor.
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Corpulent
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When Mr. Kummer saw my pathetically inept efforts to prepare a banana split, I was ______ to the ranks of the unemployed.
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Relegated
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The prisoner attempted to ______ his confession on the grounds that he had not been informed of his legal rights.
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Disavow
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Far from being ______, her failure after making a valiant effort may serve as an inspiration to young people.
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Ignoble
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The _____ between Athena and Poseidon led to a contest between the two immortals, in which they bestowed gifts to the Athenians.
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Dissension
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After the sun set, red and purple hues lingered in the sky for several minutes before the colors _____.
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Dissipated
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I always look for the exit signs in a theater because, _____ speaking, one should always be prepared to act in an emergency.
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Hypothetically
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The immediate success of my book caused great _____ to my sister, who thinks she is the writer in the family.
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consternation
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I refuse to ride a roller coaster; fast rides make me _____.
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Squeamish
