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LA Vocab UInit 7
Matching Test #2 of 4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A pacifistic is someone who _______ violence in all its forms. | abhors |
| If you are not doing well in a particular subject, you may want to _____ your way of studying it | amend |
| Blinding snowstorms ______ the barren landmass of Antarctica for months on end | buffet |
| Few figures in history or literature are as severely tested by fortune's ______ as Job in the Old Testament | buffeting |
| A great many people lost their fortunes and even their lives in the ______ brought on by the French Revolution | chaos |
| No one would expect a tiny studio apartment to have particularly ________closets | commodious |
| Sulfuric acid is one of the most _______ substances known to chemistry | corrosive |
| It is a jury's job to ______ the truth by carefully evaluating all the evidence presented at trial | discern |
| The paintings of animals and human hands in Spain's Altamira caves are among the oldest _______ specimens of Stone Age art | extant |
| The suspects never stood trial because there was no solid evidence to ________ them in the daring series of robberies. | implicate |
| Jewels an other objects once ______ with Egypt's pharaohs can now be seen in numerous museums all over the world | interred |
| When it came to drilling troops, the Revolutionary War general Baron Friedrich von Steuben was something of a _________. | martinet |
| Vaccinations can do much to _______________ the dangers of childhood illnesses. | obviate |
| Many a writer has been labeled a _________ for refusing to conform to society's conventions | renegade |
| ________________senators from the President's own party joined the opposition to defeat the bill. | renegade |
| RenegadeStalin eliminated many potential rivals by accusing them of all sorts of _____________ acts that they did not | reprehensible |
| The atmosphere in the locker room of the losing team could best be described as _________. | somber |
| Many laws prohibit the types of _________ working conditions found in sweatshops | squalid |
| Letters and diary entries may reveal a person's lifelong struggle to gain some control over ______ emotions | turbulent |
| Relief agencies regularly make ____________ appeals for aid for victims of war, terrorism, and natural disasters. | vociferous |
| The task of summarizing the _______________ reports issued by government agencies may fall to members of a legislator's staff. | voluminous |
| The senator agreed to __________ opposition to the proposed bill if some of its more controversial provisions were substantially modified. | waive |
| A person who changes from one political party to another on the basis of honest conviction should not be regarded as a ____________ | renegade |
| The trunk of the car was so _________________ that it held all our skiing equipment as well as our other luggage | commodious |
| The records of the school board meeting on the proposed bond issue are so ___________ that it would take me a week to read them. | voluminous |
| One of the signs of maturity is the ability to _______ the difference between things that are secondary and things that are truly important. | discern |
| We Americans are proud that each change of the national administration, far from being _______________, is carried out in a peaceful and friendly manner. | turbulent |
| I didn't expect you to like my suggestion ,but I was shocked by your bitter and ______________ criticism of it | vociferous |
| Although our drill instructor went by the book, he was by no means an overbearing ____________. | martinet |
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