Student Name: Date: __________
E1 Final
Score ______
Per. #: ____
Vocabulary Quiz #6
Word Bank: escapade, rambunctious, toady, locofoco,
confabulates, imprecate, soporific, harry, ingénue, folderol, craven,
auctorial, voracious, audition, passel, kith, conciliate, afflatus, opprobrium,
pogonip
- Before accepting my offer to purchase their handmade quilt,
Polly and Linda took a moment to ______________.
- By the time she finally got the three ______________ children
to bed, the babysitter was exhausted.
- The athlete's admission of using steroids earned her much ______________
from former fans.
- "The white wafer sun sports a halo, and nearby hills are
veiled in ______________." (Bill Croke, The American
Spectator, March 1997)
- His latest film is a screwball comedy depicting the
calamitous ______________ of two men who stow away on a cruise ship.
- "The workers' sweating brows wrinkled, but I heard no
one ______________ the river; each just went back to passing along stories
and sandbags." (William Least Heat-Moon, River-Horse)
- Seven-year-old Kaitlyn ______________ her little sister with
pokes, hair pulling, and teasing, badgering her until she burst into
tears.
- Andre makes it a point to have at least one barbecue a year
at his house in order to stay in touch with his ______________ and kin.
- When she was younger, the actress was often typecast as the ______________
who is unwittingly pursued by several adoring men.
- Gus insists that his musical compositions are the result of
hard work, not ______________.
- The theater company is holding ______________ today for the
role of the play's central character.
- "The capacity to tell a plain tale is the greatest of
the ______________ gifts." (Anthony Burgess, Homage to
QWERT YUIOP)
- Cemal is a ______________ reader who whips through three or
four books each week.
- Lavinia thought it was ______________ of Alex to cave into
pressure and retract his allegations instead of defending his position.
- Knowing that there will be a ______________ of phone and
e-mail messages to deal with, Rob is dreading going back to work after his
two-week vacation.
- After dinner, Owen sank onto the couch by the fireplace and
-- succumbing to the ______________ effect of his full belly and the
comfortable surroundings -- quickly fell asleep.
- City Councilor Nguyen approved the closing of the branch
library and later attempted to ______________ his constituents by pushing
for free bus service to the main library.
- Cherie dismissed the tabloid article as useless ______________.
- The editorial unfairly characterizes the appointee as one of
the mayor's ______________, ignoring her long record of unselfish service
to the community.
- "It might be said that Roosevelt
was the greatest ______________ since Andrew Jackson." (Robert E. Sherwood,
Roosevelt and Hopkins)