Sadlier Oxford Level C Unit 12

There is no way for a citizen of a republic to ______ his responsibilities.

• abdicate

• bestow

• capacious

• deface

Oh, Lord, I thank you for this unlooked for bounty that you have seen fit to _____ on me.

• caustic

• bestow

• levity

• negate

This enormous mansion is sufficiently _______for all of our guests to come party in.

• levity

• defaced

• capacious

• pivotal

A _______ wit, a penetrating eye, a stiletto tongue that enjoyed drawing blood, she wasn't everyone's cup of tea.

• caustic

• levity

• ruse

• ungainly

Now, after a long, unlikely ______, he has brought the company back from the dead.

• embargo

• crusade

• teem

• voracious

Yet they knew that the Massachusett Indians, for example, considered it impious and inhumane to ________ the monuments of the dead.

• crusade

• deface

• mendicant

• negate

England immediately laid a(n) ______ on the vessels of the powers signing it.

• tractable

• negate

• embargo

• tenet

The queen ________the enemy ships from entering her realm.

• abdicated

• bestowed

• defaced

• embargoed

This is a half-truth, and like all half-truths it conceals a most dangerous ________.

• fallacy

• wile

• defacement

• all of the above

Granted, the novel isn't gleeful, but there's enough ______ to entertain the idea of lasting love.

• pivotal

• negate

• levity

• mendicant