Synonyms
as the morning mist dissipated
OPTIONS: brightened; glistened; dispersed; collected
dispersed
became too corpulent
OPTIONS: hostile; emaciated; calm; receptive
emaciated
Many science fiction novels are rooted in _____ scenarios of what the future might look like.
OPTIONS: susceptible; ignoble; hypothetical; intemperate
hypothetical
hypothetical
subordinate in capacity or role
subservient
Provide an example of a time in your life when you felt bovine.
Answers will vary. Some examples include:
- After eating Thanksgiving dinner, I feel bovine.
had an intemperate appetite for sweets
OPTIONS: untapped; excessive; illegal; normal
excessive
had subservient parents
OPTIONS: neglectful; quarrelsome; domineering; compassionate
domineering
After the student abruptly resigned from the drama club, the advisor had no choice but to _____ him to a marginal role in the class play
OPTIONS: impugn; relegate; expurgate; dissipate
relegate
to remove objectionable passages or words from a written text
expurgate
an ordeal
gauntlet
Provide an image encountered in Unbroken or "The Wound-Dresser" that could make some readers feel squeamish.
Responses may vary. Some examples include:
- The images of the wounded soldiers Whitman provides ("the perforated shoulder," "the bloody stump," "the yellow-blue countenance")
- The images of the injured men Hillenbrand provides during her description of the Nauru mission and its aftermath ("Pillsbury's left big toe was gone," Brooks lay next to Pillsbury, blood pooling in this throat, making him gurgle as he breathed" (106)).
disavow responsibility for the mishap
OPTIONS: disclaim; accept; attribute; question
disclaim
disavowed knowledge of the event
OPTIONS: denied; acknowledged; collected; concealed
acknowledged
Some critics always seem to have an ax to grind, while others take a more _____ approach to the works they review.
OPTIONS: ignoble; dispassionate; squeamish; intemperate
dispassionate
stinging; bitter in temper or tone
acrimonious
sluggish, unresponsive
bovine
Provide an example of a instance when one or more characters from the Odyssey committed perfidy.
Responses will vary, but may include:
- The suitors, in their betrayal of Odysseus
- The disloyal maidservants
- Odysseus's crew when they fail to listen (Cicones' island)
- Eurylochus when he advocates for abandoning the crew on Circe's island
tries to avoid dissension
OPTIONS: harmony; discourse; injury; strife
strife
the object of widespread odium
OPTIONS: research; admiration; loathing; contempt
admiration
Television advertisers spend millions of dollars on commercials to render viewers _____ to the suggestion that they go out and consume their products or services.
OPTIONS: intemperate; subservient; susceptible; squeamish
susceptible
hatred, contempt
odium
mean, low, base
ignoble
"Which servicemember from Unbroken is characterized as being dispassionate?
Phil: "If he had a boiling point, he never reached it...He dealt with every manner of adversity with calm, adaptive acceptance. In a crisis, Louie would learn, Phillips's veins ran ice water" (60).
impugned their integrity
OPTIONS: verified; demanded; challenged; revoked
challenged
ending the acrimonious debate
OPTIONS: cordial; hostile; lively; conditional
cordial
She looked at the costly opera tickets with total _____ as it suddenly dawned on her that the long-awaited performance was last night, not tonight!
OPTIONS: subservience; dissension; consternation; perfidy
consternation
dismay, confusion
consternation
faithlessness, treachery
perfidy
What pseudoscience, popular in the early twentieth century, would most people now impugn?
Eugenics