Honors Sophomore vocab Week 27 Quest 9

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Math skills are good, but class performance is ______.

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slipshod

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Why do you take it on yourself to ______ me whenever I say or do anything slightly out of line?

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chide

Front

Inconsistencies in the suspect's story made police highly _______ of his alibi.

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skeptical

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The Welsh mining village with its drab cottages seemed terribly ______ and uninviting in the cold autumn rain.

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bleak

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Better to admit ignorance than give ________ info.

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erroneous

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The June sun made me feel so _____ that I had little energy to brush away the flies.

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languid

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To improve their standard of living, people of an underdeveloped country must learn to _____ the resources of their land.

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exploit

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The ______ man shocked us all when he could slam-dunk a basketball, because he was only five feet tall!

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diminutive

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How can you __________ to work in the space program despite failing science and math?

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aspire

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Since it rained heavily, the fields were an almost impassible ______.

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mire