Vocab 13 And 14 Word Usage Flashcards
The one-time millionaire _____________ financial ruin.
Incurred
Great literature offers _____________ to readers through interpretation of universal problems.
Succor
Some scientists ____________ that a tenth planet maybe orbiting the sun every 700 to 1000 years.
Conjecture
The _____________ it 1989 of movements in Europe toward democracy after decades of communist rule surprise political observers.
Concurrence
Millhands in nineteenth-century Britain worked in _____________ conditions with long hours and low pay.
Abject
_____________ of winds from the hurricane sent high tides crashing on lowland beaches.
Acceleration
In antique shops you can find a(n) _____________ of objects ranging from costly artifacts to useless junk.
Conglomeration
Postal services promise ____________ and care in mail delivery.
Celerity
Is the sentence, “Wow! What a victory!” the word “wow” is a(n) _____________.
Interjection
The parents felt _____________ despair when they discovered their child missing from the campground.
Abject
Racers in the Indianapolis 500 must _____________ quickly and maintain high speed throughout the 500-mile-course.
Accelerate
“Right and victory do not always ____________.”
- John Selden
Concur
At press conferences, journalists _____________ the president with questions.
Assail
The tornado moved _____________, leaving a path of rubble.
Desultory
The _____________ hazard for ships inter North Atlantic is the iceberg, as the sinking of the Titanic illustrates.
Salient
Although reached independently, the _____________ theories of Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace concurred.
Evolutionary
Some experimenters known as alchemists labored in the Middle Ages to make gold from lesser metals, to no _____________.
Avail
Although my brother complained about the shortage of summer jobs, he had made only _____________ attempts to find one.
Desultory
The Spanish practice of branding cattle and horses was _____________ in Mexico as early as the sixteenth century.
Prevalent
Despite the loss of her life’s work in a fire, the artist remained _____________ in spirit.
Resilient
Pinocchio and Cyrano de Bergerac are two fictional characters who have in common one _____________ feature: a very large nose.
Salient
The character of Fanny Flinching in Little Dorrit is so _____________ that, according to her creator, her speech “has no commas in it.”
Voluble
