Unit 4 The Ballad of Ron and John

Some of the boys at our school began a __________ for the right to wear shorts all year long.

• campaign

• predicament

Sometimes two cars _______ in the student parking lot after school when everyone is in a hurry to leave.

• siege

• collide

One __________ of dieting is having to buy new clothes.

• sanctuary

• consequence

Amber's _______ mood change signaled to her parents that she and her boyfriend were fighting again.

• drastic

• provoke

Simone's sixteenth birthday party was so _______ that her mom even hired an event planner.

• retaliate

• elaborate

Once he pilot knew that he couldn't gain control of the spiraling plane, it was ______ that it would crash into the mountain side.

• campaign

• inevitable

I _______ people who are cruel to animals.

• loathe

• collide

Bradi found herself in quite a ________ when she said yes to two different boys to be their date to the prom.

• predicament

• vow

Callie tried to ______ her little brother by taking all of his toy cars and putting them on a shelf high up, where he couldn't reach them.

• treacherous

• provoke

When that kid hit me in the arm, I had to use all my self-control not to ________.

• elaborate

• retaliate