Vocabulary Workshop Level F Unit 9 Choosing The Right Word

What do you think of the concept that when a crime is committed, society is often as ______ as the criminal.

The heat in the room, the quite drone of the fly at the window, and the bright sunlight put me into a ______ state.

As a result of ______ when that novel was first submitted, the publishing house lost the biggest best-seller of the year.

What she calls her "philosophy of life" seems to me a hodgepodge of childish fallacies and ______ generalizations.

As the election drew nearer, the candidates went from reasonable discussion to quarrelsomeness to ______ each other.

The glory of this perfect spring day seems to be all the more precious because it is so ______.

Biologists have a theory that every plant or animal in the course of its development ______ all the stages of its evolution.

Only a ______ at golf would have tried to use a driver when hitting into such a strong wind.

In everyone's life, a situation may arise that calls for a basic moral choice to be made, without compromise or ______.

Is it any wonder that a 17-year-old star athlete becomes smug when she receives such ______ from the entire school.

Since he is known to be a multimillonaire, it seems almost ______ of him, in an inverted sense, to drive around in a small, battered, inexpensive car.

He is completely indifferent to wealth and luxurious living; his ______ is directed instead toward fame and prestige.

Sportswrites attribute the succes of the pennant-winning team largely to the ______ managing of old Buck Coakely.

In the densely populated and underdeveloped countries we visited, we saw the depths to shich people can be reduced by ______.

The ______ physical appearance of the report was matched by its careless writing and disorganized content.

The say that school spirit at Central High is dead, but I am confident that it can be ______ if the right methods are used.

When the results of her mistakes became public knowledge, she gained a well-deserved reputation for being an ______ blunderer.

In playing chess, she deliberately uses ______ tactics to make her opponent impatient and tense.

You may be right in your belief that she won't let us user her car, but remember that this is till only a(n) ______.

As soon as the hurricane ______, rescue teams rushed out to help people in the devastated area.

Before becoming a successful writer, Jack London was a _____ prospector, searching for gold in Alaska.

Since my mother is such a(n) _____ manager, she was the perfect choice to run the children's museum in our community.

Sheila was feeling insecure after experiencing a _____ sense of dread that something terrible was going to happen during her speech.

I was absolutely stunned when I reviewed my bank statement, not realizing I had an an _____ error in accounting.

It is difficult to remember my dreams, as I find them to be ____.