Adjectives 1
When I worked as a news reporter, I had to record the words of my sources _______.
Verbatim
The gymnast had _____ muscles and could bend into shapes others would find impossible.
pliable
augment
fortitude
Dour or stolid?
Even though her children kept nagging her to give them Oreos, the mom maintained a _____ expression and said "no."
Even if you think the mom is being mean, the best answer is stolid because the emphasis in the sentence is on how the children couldn't change her mind no matter what she said.
Dour is more about someone's sour personality or bad temper.
The friends pooled their money to spend the weekend together in an _____ mansion.
opulent
Because the experiment had exploded once already, the scientist proceeded with a ______ approach the second time.
tentative
The enemy is approaching. Time to _____ the troops!
deploy
Nick gave only very difficult to read ______ that he was ready to break up with Marjorie.
Intimations
Dour or stolid?
He always ended up in a ____ mood if he was stuck in traffic. Sometimes he yelled at the other drivers even if he couldn't hear them.
This answer is dour.
Stolid is more about being nonreactive or stubborn. Dour is more about being in a bad mood. We can tell this man is in a bad mood. Instead of being nonreactive, he is actually overreacting and is angry.
The ______ referee refused to change the call he made to suit the angry coach.
stolid
Her habit of speaking ill of her friends behind their backs caused her to be ______ of friendship her last year of school.
bereft
She stopped dead in her tracks to ______ at the astonishing sight of the burning forest in the distance.
gape
Because he knew his mom would not let him go to a party, he gave the event the _____ of a study group when he asked for permission.
guise
Small children can be mean when they gibe at one another.
Is gibe a verb or a noun in this sentence?
verb
The _______ poison destroyed organisms quickly and completely.
insidious
It doesn't matter which type of scissors you give her because she is ______ and can use either hand.
ambidextrous
Every morning, the teacher _______ that the test was Friday, September 11 so that the students would not forget.
reiterated
The thief chose his _____ carefully so that he would not be recognized.
guise
The small children yelled gibes at each other across the playground.
Is gibes a verb or a noun in this sentence?
noun
In this case, gibes are a *thing* being yelled. You could replace the term with "insults"--another noun--and it would still be correct.
Because the commander had a _____ strategy, he could respond to new situations that came up easily.
pliable
The grammar in the essay was so messy with mistakes, you could almost call it _____.
unkempt
She ______ the film about exercise by splicing in a minute of footage of a puppy rolling around in the mud.
adulterated
She found the _____ incredibly hurtful.
gibe
Tentative or warily?
She approached the black hole in the video game ____ because she knew it could destroy her ship.
The answer is warily because it is an adverb. Your using a word here to describe the girl's APPROACH (verb). When you have a word that describes a verb, you need an adverb instead of an adjective.
The word tentative COULD work if you changed it into an adverb by adding -ly: tentatively