Level G Unit 4 Vocabulary Quiz

The defeated army fled in such ______________ that before long it had become little more than a uniformed mob.

• concord

• pusillanimous

• ludicrous

• disarray

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CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

People who are used to the unhurried atmosphere of a country town often find it hard to cope with the ____________ pace of big-city life.

• frenetic

• jocular

• exigency

• flotsam

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CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.4A

CCSS.L.11-12.6

Almost every case of muscle or tissue ___________ is the result of disease, prolonged disuse, or changes in cell nutrition.

• bastion

• atrophy

• exigency

• recumbent

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CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.4A

I have yet to meet an adult who did not __________ about the taxes he or she had to pay.

• glean

• nettle

• grouse

• mordant

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CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

I get my best ideas while lying down; the _____________ position seems to stimulate my brain.

• recumbent

• incumbent

• consummate

• incarcerate

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CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.4A

The ____________ of my present financial situation demand that I curtail all unnecessary expenses for at least a month.

• bastions

• grouses

• nettles

• exigencies

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CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

Even critics of our penal system admit that as long as hardened criminals are ____________ they can't commit further crimes.

• concord

• incarcerated

• incumbent

• pusillanimous

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CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.4A

Michelangelo's paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican are works of ______________ artistry.

• jocular

• pecuniary

• consummate

• frenetic

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CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The _____________ that we observed here and there in the harbor bore mute testimony to the destructive power of the storm.

• flotsam

• atrophy

• grouse

• strategem

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CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

If you are pricked by a ________, aloe cream will soothe and reduce the sting.

• exigency

• grouse

• strategem

• nettle

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CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.4A

CCSS.L.11-12.5