Vocabulary Quiz #3 Answer Sheet
Use the words in the word bank to fill in the blanks:
- With the right wetware
at the helm, the company should be able to turn a sizeable
profit.
- The crowd began to gibe
at the basketball player who kept missing free throws.
- The pianist's fingers became a
blur flying over the keys as she played the difficult hemidemisemiquavers
of the allegro movement.
- Clearly offended, Susan refused
to answer an impertinent question about her marriage.
- Mrs. Grayson was one of several
people in the neighborhood who were flimflammed into donating
money to the phony charity.
- "Location, location and location.
That's what it's all about, trumpet the real-estate wallahs."
(Tony Baker, The Advertiser, August 3,
2005)
- The dot-com industry was the
epicenter of the youthquake of the 1990s.
- The boss seemed to prefer
apparatchiks to anyone with a glimmer of independent thought
- Our neighbors are looking forward
to the summer, when they'll be able to dine alfresco on their
new patio
- We had a wonderful vacation, even
if our time at the beach was foreshortened by two days of
rain.
- The king requested that the court
poet commemorate the marriage of the princess with a prothalamion.
- "I am no whit somnolent;
I always hear best with my eyes shut."
- During certain periods of
Egyptian history, the pharaohs and their subjects practiced henotheism
- Mr. Hughes had his neighbor's son
pegged as a disrespectful jackanapes and was therefore
reluctant to hire him to shovel the driveway.
- Jennie wrote an editorial for her
town's local paper fulminating on the topic of dress codes in
the public schools.
- From the sound of the first
guitar chord, the mosh pit looked like a swarm of bees in a corybantic
dance.
- Early in her career, the singer
starred in a stunning rendition of Wagner's opera
Tristan und Isolde
- The professor peppered his
lectures with inkhorn terms of pseudo-Latin and Greek, a
practice he felt essential to instilling in his students the proper respect
for his knowledge.
- "In addition to suffixes and
prefixes, the language [Inuktitut] has infixes, denoting tense
or gender. . .."
- There might be a deeper reason
why Bruce decided to quit his job, but I don't think we should delve
into it.
- The arrival of the circus was
marked by the shouts of roustabouts hauling canvas and
erecting huge tent poles.
- Conscious of his landlord's
atrabilious temperament, Daniel knew to wait until the moment was
right before asking for an extension on the rent.
- Using his prehensile
tail, the monkey was able to seize the pen right out of my hand!
- Carol discovered that Mike had
purloined her idea for her essay and used it in his own paper.
- "Austere on the outside, the
Genoese palazzi's interiors are sumptuous and gilded, bursting
with frescoes, mirrors, and tapestries...." (Gabriella de Ferrari,
Travel & Leisure, September 1994)
- One review of the book praised
the author's sprachgefuhl and her graceful, literary style.
- June used her valedictory
address to emphasize the importance of volunteering and community service.
- It was amusing to watch the
pratfalls of the slow-witted cartoon cat as he was continually
outsmarted by the clever mouse.
- A resistance group has sprung up
and is plotting to overthrow the tyrant leader and his camarilla.
- Water is often brackish
and undrinkable at points where freshwater rivers flow into the sea.
- Aunt Helen would never say that
someone had "died"; she preferred to communicate the unpleasant news with
euphemisms like "passed on."
- "Make an investment of any spare
monies as may render some usance." (Lord Byron)
- When the three brothers took over
the family business together, it didn't take long for the internecine
feuding to begin.
- The museum's scrimshander
hunched over a bit of bone, scraping it gently with a tiny needle, then
brushed away the chips and held up the intricate design so we could see it.
- The figure skater's lackluster
performance underwhelmed the judges.
- "I'm no wowser, but
I draw the line at abusive, foul-mouthed drunks."
- Clearly exhausted after a long
day on her feet, our server gave us only a perfunctory
greeting before taking our drink orders.
- The therapist speculated that
Sharon's mythomania, which makes her want to embellish even
the most minor details of her life, may have been triggered by a specific
event.
- The development of a
revolutionary microprocessor became the fulcrum of the
company's success as an information technology giant.
- The book is a collection of
opuscula written by the author between his two major novels.
- Residents of the riparian
community learned to brace themselves for a flood whenever torrential rain
was forecast.
- "Eureka was, after all, the last
home of Carry Nation, that ax-wielding foe of John Barleycorn,
Demon Rum and all their evil ilk."
- The fact that Andrew was the
ringleader does not absolve his friends of responsibility for
their part in the prank.\
- Only a deus ex machina
could resolve the novel's thorny crisis.
- Embarrassed by the surprise party
we threw for her, Joyce held up her hands in an effort to hide her
rutilant face.
- Janet's angry letter chastised
members of the media for attempting to vilify her brother, the
disgraced ex-councilman.
- The official was thrown into jail
for having the temerity to publicly disagree with the
dictator.
- The overweening
ambition of the novel's principal character eventually leads to his
downfall.
- "Let's go and find a real bar,"
said Mort. "We shouldn't have to settle for the grog they
serve in this place."
- She was obviously very upset over
losing the match, but that's no excuse for her churlish
behavior toward her opponent.
- The model, arms akimbo,
struck a pose at the end of the runway.
- Peter the Great became the czar
of Russia while still in his nonage, so the country was ruled
for a time by his half-sister Sophia.
- The pluvial climate
of England didn't dampen our trip; instead, it gave us a chance to visit
some excellent pubs and chat with the locals.
- Grandmother bore the trials and
tribulations of her life with longanimity.
- The scientist hypothecated
that the lab rats' new behavior was linked to changes in their sleep
patterns.
- To almost every comment I made,
Adam responded with a quip and a smile.
- I prefer that news program
because it sticks to unbiased reporting with no ex parte
commentary.
- "The face of the old man was
stern, hard-featured, and forbidding; that of the young one, open, handsome,
and ingenuous." (Charles Dickens, The Life and
Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby)
- "Maybe we should reintroduce the
ancient Greek practice of timing political speeches with clepsydra
-- when the water is gone, the oration is over," suggested Alfie.
- Adrianna frequently wrote to her
local newspaper to complain about the redundant headlines, rebarbative
editorial commentary, and grammatical errors.
- "The nation's working poor have
been hit by another whammy," said the senator, referring to a
recent tax hike.
- The lozenges had a
demulcent effect, and my sore throat was soon feeling much better
- In the office, Ellie's lively,
jocose personality keeps everyone smiling and upbeat.
- Access to clean water would
ameliorate living conditions within the village.
- John listed his
multifarious interests and activities on his college application.
- Her novels are populated by
louche characters wasting their days in brothels and seedy bars.
- "Last week's storm," Chet
declared, "showed us that the claim that lightning cannot strike the same
place twice is nothing more than a canard."
- Jeff didn't realize that the
bookshelf he had hung on the wall was slightly askew until he
placed a pen on it and it rolled off the edge.
- The appraiser looked closely at
the painting and then reluctantly told us that we had been
thimblerigged into buying a worthless copy.