Unit 1
What is a gap or a break in sequence called?
hiatus
What word means aimless talk or saliva?
Drivel
What word means to sympathize with?
commiserate
What word means to re-echo or resound?
Reverberate
What word means fair or just?
Equitable
What word means to draw forth or bring out?
elicit
What word means to spread or soak through?
Permeate
What word means a natural tendency or inclination?
Proclivity
What word means the original model?
Archetype
What word means bitterly severe?
Scathing
What word means to make easier or milder?
assuage
Infringe
What word means not decisive, or not definite?
Noncommittal
What word means incapable of being changed or called back?
Irrevocable
This word means tending to be troublesome
Fractious
The French Revolution was caused by the _______________________________of the nobility who told the starving peasants to eat cake.
Decadence
King Arthur was the________________________of the romantic hero.
Epitome
Tell me how to get to Ocean Grove directly. Don't tell me to go by the __________________route.
Circuitous
Notes on your shirt sleeves during midterms are considered____________________.
Contraband
Cereal has been considered a __________________breakfast choice since the late 1800s.
Salutary
OPEC is a_____________________of oil-producing nations which attempts to fix the price of oil.
coalition
"You_____________________," the junior cried at the freshman who came into the room in the middle of period 8.
Interloper
It's a _________________arguement to say that you should pass English because you speak that language every day.
Tenuous
Being______________, Sally got over the breakup with Tim and went to the lacrosse game with Louis.
Resilient
You can copy my homework with the __________________that it might not all be right.
Caveat