vocab: quarter 4 part 1

choose the best definition of plight

• situation

• difficulty

• an unfortunate predicament

Many thought this illness had changed him from a slightly arrogant young man into one who was sympathetic to the __________of others.

• plight

• squalid

• intimations

• coercion

What word means to move into position?

• fortitude

• deploy

• feasible

Based on hints in the research data, Hansen gave in 1854 the first _______________that the accepted distance of the sun was too great by some millions of miles (Month.

• precedent

• cursory

• intimation

His ______________ and often angry attitude toward car driving became the catalyst for this thought provoking drama.

• benevolent

• cursory

• inclement

• belligerent

What word means possible to do easily or conveniently?

• feasible

• cursory

• fortitude

Jarrah timber is nearly ______________ to the attacks of the teredo, and there is good evidence to show that, exposed to wear and weather, or placed under the soil, or used as submarine piles, the wood remained intact after nearly fifty years' trial.

• indomitable

• impervious

• belligerent

• vulnerable

The 8th grade promotion speech should evoke a sense of ____________ by describing common events shared among classmates during their time at Prescott.

• precedence

• belligerence

• nostalgia

He was _________ to violence, and never resorted to bellicose acts or to the employment of force save in the last extremity.

• intimation

• averse

• coerce

• invulnerable

The disputes between England and her American colonies had reached a point at which no __________adjustment was possible.

• benevolent

• amicable

• feasible

• deployed