After dinner, we immediately adjourned to the schoolroom: lessons recommenced, and were continued until five o'clock.
What is moved to another place
100
If you are visiting a desert for the first time, the landscape might seem:
What is alien
100
When the national economy is expanding, new housing developments begin to __________; when times are lean, construction slacks off.
What is proliferate
200
to soil, to stain, tarnish, defile, besmirch
What is sully
200
What kind of response would a terrible play receive from an audience?
What is jeers
200
You make me a liar by such language: you sully my honor.
To sully is to
What is make dirty, tarnish
200
A word which means to pay back is
What is compensate
200
The speaker advised us not to imitate the ________ kind of person who squanders time and money in the vain pursuit of pleasure.
What is dissolute.
300
good for horses or cattle, raw material for a designated purpose
What is fodder
300
A crumbling and faded note might be described as being
What is illegible
300
Noah was inspired to describe an entire set of untrustworthy and dissolute witnesses whose greedy motives could be exposed during an intense cross-examination.
In this sentence, what is the best meaning for dissolute?
What is corrupt; untrustworthy; loose in morals
300
As we began brainstroming, however, it became increasingly clear that televisions courtroom dramas were acting as fodder for just about every situation we proposed.
In this sentence, fodder means
What is a set of ideas
300
In spite of all the adverse criticism her ideas have received, she reamains ________ in her determination to improve our community.
What is unflinching.
400
a citizen of another country; foreign, strange
What is alien
400
Which of the following is the opposite of wordy?
What is terse
400
Poe's education and career, as well as his personal life, were erratic and fully of dramatic turns.
Which of the following words could NOT be used to replace erratic: extraordinary, irregular, predictable, surprising
What is predicable.
400
Would you want to appear comely? Explain.
What is yes; it means to have a pleasing appearance.
400
How can you be so cruel as to _____________ those poor dogs by offering them tidbits that you will never let them have?
What is tantalize.
500
bringing in money; profitable
What is lucrative
500
A city that has been conquered has been:
What is subjugated
500
The greatness of these works together with the drama behind them has caused biographies and critical writings to proliferate in the more than 150 years since Poe's death.
Proliferate most likely means
What is multiply, grow, get bigger
500
Would expulsion from school be a bad thing? Why or why not?
What is yes, because it means you would be removed from school.
500
Some people drink quantities of orange juice and swallow vitamin c tablets in a valiant attempt to ___________ themselves against winter colds.