Vocabulary #2 Review (Part 2)

The wounded soldier, who was shot five times, is in ____.

• agony

• admiration

• sagacity

• captivity

"When the teacher retired, she was given a gold watch in ____ of her fifty years of service to the county."

• sagacity

• admiration

• captivity

• gesticulation

The driver was offended when the person he cut off responded with a rude ____."

• gesticulation

• captivity

• sagacity

• agony

Dr. Long gave the patient medication to try and ____ the disease during the early stages.

• dreary

• stifle

• vex

• fickle

"Once we arrived at the movie theater, my ____ sister could not decide which movie she wanted to see: Spider-Man: No Way Home or Scream ."

• finite

• fickle

• stifled

• dreary

"Protestors shouted that keeping the zoo animals in ____ violated their basic rights."

• admiration

• sagacity

• gesticulation

• captivity

They had only a ____ amount of gas, which is why they had to turn the generator off during the day.

• finite

• fickle

• vexed

• stifled

"Because of their professor’s ____ in teaching, the medical students had no problem passing the exam."

• sagacity

• captivity

• admiration

• agony

"The imagery in the Emily Dickinson poem was quite ____ and sad."

• vexing

• fickle

• finite

• dreary

The inability to find a cure for the fatal disease has ____ the team of doctors for many years.

• vexed

• finite

• dreary

• fickle