VOCAB UNIT 14 ONLINE WORK

Shakespeare's advice about dressing "rich" and not " ______" still holds true in today's fashion world.

• affliction

• akin

• gaudy

• impartial

He claimed to be a famous multimillionaire, but when he tried to borrow money for a bus ticket, we realized he was nothing more than an _____.

My mind and body were so ____ by the stifling heat that afternoon; I couldn't do anything at all.

• meditated

• oppressed

• transmitted

• vanquished

I'd describe nostalgia as a feeling more _____ to yearning than to grief.

The speaker had important things to say, but his way of expressing himself was so unimaginative and ______ that he lost our interest and attention.

Is it necessary for you to go into the woods to ______ every time that you have to make a simple decision?

• oppress

• akin

• affliction

• meditate

We are so accustomed to TV that we tend to forget what a marvel it is to _____ colored images from one place to another.

Each scholarship candidate was identified by a number so that the people doing the grading would be absolutely _____ as to who would win.

• gaudy

• impartial

• pedestrian

• transmit

Is there any country in the world by which the terrible ______ of cancer has been entirely overcome?

Education and compassion are the only weapons by which we will _____ prejudice and superstition once and for all.

• vanquish

• gaudy

• transmit

• impostor