Unit 8 Vocab Sentences

Question 1

acrimonious

Answer 1

She whirled to face me when I spoke, and her answer startled me by its acrimonious intensity.

Question 2

bovine

Answer 2

After I told him what had happened, he sat there with a bovine expression and said nothing.

Question 3

consternation

Answer 3

His father looked at the mess with consternation, hardly knowing what to say first.

Question 4

corpulent

Answer 4

Though she had grown corpulent with the years, the opera singer’s voice and her way with a song were the same.

Question 5

disavow

Answer 5

The suspect stubbornly continued to disavow any part in the kidnapping plot.

Question 6

dispassionate

Answer 6

Being a neighbor but not a quite a family member, he was called in to give a dispassionate view of our plan.

Question 7

dissension

Answer 7

The political party was torn by dissension and finally split into two wings.

Question 8

dissipates

Answer 8

As chairman he is fair and open, but he dissipates his energies on trivial things.

Question 9

expurgate

Answer 9

According to the unwritten law of journalism, the editor alone has the right to expurgate the article.

Question 10

gauntlet

Answer 10

In the Middle Ages, a knight threw down his gauntlet as a challenge, and another knight picked it up only if he accepted.

Question 11

hypothetical

Answer 11

Science is not based on hypothetical assumptions, but on proven facts.

Question 12

ignoble

Answer 12

Most people will agree that a noble purpose does not justify ignoble means.

Question 13

impugn

Answer 13

You can impugn the senator’s facts, but you cannot accuse her of concealing her intentions.

Question 14

intemperate

Answer 14

Experience taught her to control her intemperate outbursts of anger.

Question 15

odium

Answer 15

Those eager to heap odium on the fallen tyrant learned that he had escaped in the night.

Question 16

perfidy

Answer 16

Rulers in Shakespeare’s plays often find themselves armed against enemies but not against the perfidy of their friends.

Question 17

relegate

Answer 17

Even if they relegate him to a mere clerical job, he is determined to make his presence felt.

Question 18

squeamish

Answer 18

If I am called squeamish for disliking the horror movie, what do we call those who say that they liked it?

Question 19

subservient

Answer 19

The officers were taught to be respectful of but not blindly subservient to their superior’s wishes.

Question 20

susceptible

Answer 20

The trouble with being susceptible to flattery is that you can never be sure that the flatterer is sincere.

Question 21

Dissembling

Answer 21

“a strikingly beautiful girl, an orphan, with an endless capacity for dissembling.”

Question 22

Obscene

Answer 22

“my own household is discovered to be the very center of some obscene practice.”

Question 23

Begrudge

Answer 23

“Do you begrudge my bed, Uncle?”

Question 24

Providence

Answer 24

“Putnam: It is a providence the thing is out now! It is a providence.”

Question 25

Contention

Answer 25

“Putnam: Mr. Parris, I have taken your part in all contention here, and I would continue; but I cannot if you hold back in this.”

Question 26

Formidable

Answer 26

“Oh Goody Ann, It is a formidable sin to conjure up the dead!”

Question 27

Hypocrisy

Answer 27

“It is another trait we inherited from them, and it has helped to discipline us as well as to breed hypocrisy among us.”

Question 28

Covenanted

Answer 28

“.. I never knew the lying lessons I was taught by all these Christian women and their covenanted men!”

Question 29

Prodigious

Answer 29

“That is a notorious sign of witchcraft afoot, Goody Nurse, a prodigious sign!”

Question 30

Baffled

Answer 30

“Rebecca, the doctor’s baffled.”

Question 31

Fathom

Answer 31

“I cannot fathom that.”

Question 32

Licentious

Answer 32

“How can it be the Devil? Why would he choose my house to strike? We have all manner of licentious people in the village.”