PEL, PULS
a sudden, involuntary urge to do something
a. compel
b. conjecture
c. abject
d. impulse
d. impulse
a guess, often one based on inadequate or faulty evidence
a. abject
b. compel
c. motive
d. conjecture
d. conjecture
showing little regard; scornful
a. dismissive
b. emissary
c. remiss
d. motive
a. dismissive
a cause for action
a. motif
b. motive
c. emote
d. remiss
b. motive
unable to be conquered
a. provincial
b. invincible
c. conducive
d. petulant
b. invincible
to force or strongly persuade; to coerce
a. emissary
b. dismissive
c. compel
d. motive
c. compel
lowly; miserable and wretched
a. dejected
b. abject
c. conjecture
d. dismissive
b. abject
failing to fulfill one's duty; negligent
a. emissary
b. motif
c. emote
d. remiss
d. remiss
to dramatically express emotions
a. dismissive
b. compel
c. remiss
d. emote
d. emote
to draw a conclusion from fact; to infer
a. protracted
b. induce
c. evince
d. deduce
d. deduce
to send out or away
a. dejected
b. expel
c. abject
d. remiss
b. expel
downcast or sad; depressed
a. dejected
b. conjecture
c. expel
d. remiss
a. dejected
an agent sent on a mission
a. motive
b. motif
c. conjecture
d. emissary
d. emissary
a recurring theme, subject, or idea
a. impulse
b. motif
c. emissary
d. abject
b. motif
a minor violation of a rule or law
a. infringe
b. epitome
c. infraction
d. excise
c. infraction
The council took a vote on whether to ________ the treasurer for his accounting mistakes.
a. expel
b. compel
c. abject
d. dismissive
a. expel
After Mac lost the race, he sat by himself on the team's bus feeling _______.
a. conjecture
b. expel
c. dismissive
d. dejected
d. dejected
During the negotiations, the vice president of one company was sent as a(n) _______ to the other company.
a. emissary
b. motif
c. expel
d. motive
a. emissary
The recurring father-son ______ in this novel makes me wonder about the author's relationship with his own father.
a. motif
b. motive
c. emote
d. emissary
a. motif
brief and straightforward
a. incisive
b. infraction
c. concise
d. tome
c. concise
The pressures of poverty ______ many people to do things they would not do otherwise.
a. impulse
b. compel
c. expel
d. emissary
b. compel
The baby birds, motherless and unprotected from the rain, looked ______ and pathetic.
a. emissary
b. motive
c. abject
d. expel
c. abject
Although the champion golfer was _____ of his caddy's suggestions at first, he eventually gave them a try.
a. remiss
b. impulse
c. motive
d. dismissive
d. dismissive
My sister tended to emote more than the other members of our shy, socially awkward family.
a. motif
b. motive
c. emote
d. expel
c. emote
to intrude on an area belonging to another
a. infringe
b. retract
c. induce
d. fractious
a. infringe