Correct or Incorrect and WHY?
I live my life by the ten commandments because I care about ethics.
Correct
Ethics means a Code of principles or a moral philosophy, therefore the ten commandments would be a code to live by.Tutored
Teach privately
Sentence Example: I got tutored in math and brought my grade up.
My parents grounded me for a month with no phone, internet, or seeing my friends and it was absolute ________.
Torture
Very Angry, extremely angry
Furious
Concur
Example: It's easy to concur with my best friend because we think alike.
Incorrect.
Awkward means uncomfortable. If the person felt good, it doesn't make sense for them to also feel uncomfortable especially with close friends
Monitor
(Noun)
Video or computer screen
Sentence Example: I hate looking at my computer monitor all day.
Only through _______ will my parent's get me to eat broccoli.
Duress
To scold, to warn
Admonish
Rumble
Deep roar
Example: Winnie the Pooh's tummy made a rumble sound when he was hungry.
She was curt with me, we became instant friends.
Incorrect.
Curt means to be rudely brief, it doesn't make sense that this would lead to an instant friendship.
Surged
Moved suddenly, increased suddenly
Sentence example: The power surged and turned off the lights in the house.
The dog was __________, it just kept sitting down and wouldn't finish the walk.
Implacable
Would also accept inexorable
Frauds, sometimes humorous deception
Hoaxes
Rioted
Behaved Violently
Example: The patriots in the revolutionary war rioted when they felt they were being treated unfairly.
Helping my elderly neighbor had a pernicious effect.
Incorrect
Pernicious means having a harmful effect, helping an elderly person would not be harmful.
Preserve
Maintain something to its original state
Sentence Example: The collector preserved his playing cards so they would keep their value.
You're so _________ about your life you make no one want to be around you.
Acrimonious
Reporter (generally for the news)
Journalist
Distraught
Highly upset.
Example: The dog was distraught when my family and I left him alone to go on vacation.
Incorrect.
Egregious means outrageously bad or horrible, so it doesn't make sense that something bad or horrible would help people.
Resigning
Quitting, leaving a position voluntarily
Sentence Example: I am resigning my supervisor position to be a full-time mom.
In a _________ of rage my sister broke my mom's favorite lamp.
Paroxysm
Blameworthy, deserving of punishment
Reprehensible
Journalist
Example: The Journalist wrote a news article about parade in town.