The winds were in _________ in the eye of the storm.
Hint: (temporary inactivity)
What is abeyance?
100
The bad-tasting children's cough medicine was made more ______________ with a bit of grape flavoring.
Hint: pleasing or acceptable to the palate, taste or mind
What is palatable?
100
The artist ____________the paint onto the canvas, giving it a rough texture.
Hint: to apply, spread, smear with paint, plaster, etc.
What is daubed?
100
The character with whom John Proctor had an affair...
Who is Abigail?
100
The author of The Great Gatsby...
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
200
Robins are _________ of spring. My grandmother always said that it was not spring until you saw the red-breasted bird.
Hint: (something that comes before something else)
What is harbingers?
200
The coach was __________ about missing practices. Absolutely no one was excused the day before a game for any reason. Hint: stubborn, unyielding
What is obdurate?
200
Julie Andrews and the von Trapp children __________across the flower-strewn mountainside singing beautiful songs in the movis The Sound of Music.
Hint: to skip, dance or frisk about
What is gamboled?
200
The character whom Mrs. Putnam accuses of killing her babies...
Who is Rebecca Nurse?
200
The decade which Fitzgerald chronicles in American history....
What is the 1920's?
300
Unconcerned about gaining a reputation as a rebel, the________ railed against the teachings of the church.
Hint: (someone who attacks established beliefs or institutions)
What is an iconoclast?
300
I felt that the woman's contribution to a cause that she did not agree with was quite _________________. Hint: showing false or hypocritical piety or righteousness
What is sanctimonious?
300
The candidate did not want to __________his chances of winning by choosing an unpopular running mate.
Hint: to put in danger
What is jeopardize?
300
One of the primary concerns of Reverand Parris throughout the play....
What is his reputation?
300
The character who is a dreamer...
Who is Jay Gatsby?
400
The day he lost his job was the ________ of his professional life.
Hint: the lowest point
What is the nadir?
400
I heard the _______________ cries of the witches as they gathered around a bonfire in the forest.
Hint: wretched, miserable, menacing, foreboding
What is baleful?
400
After being caught skipping school, the students_______ a tale in hopes of getting out of trouble.
Hint: to make, construct, invent, create
What is fabricate?
400
The two families who had conflict throughout the play... Hint: They fought a land war in the woods that lasted for days.
Who are the Nurses and the Putnams?
400
Wolfsheim's notoriety
What is fixing the 1919 World Series?
500
The student was in a ___________________ about when to take the SAT. Testing always fell on the same day that he was scheduled to work. Hint: a dilemma
What is a quandary?
500
There is nothing so _____________ as the sound of a flute out of tune.
Hint: harsh sounding noise
What is cacophonous?
500
The couple enjoyed the ______________ air at the top of the mountain.
Hint: to make less gross, refine, purify, make less dense
What is rarefied?
500
The commandment which John Proctor forgot when reciting the Ten Commandments to Rev. Hale...