Vocabulary Workshop Level D Unit 2

The car's _____ behavior was making me worried because it was swerving all willy-nilly over the road.

• expulsion

• jeer

• fortify

• erratic

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

The street performer was so bad we had to _____ at him, but did we have to throw the rotten tomatoes at his head?

• jeer

• dissolute

• illegible

• feint

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

The pirate threatened me with _____ if I ratted him out to the feds, but I wasn't afraid to walk the plank so now he's in jail.

• jeer

• explusion

• unflinching

• tantalize

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

When the national economy is expanding, new housing developments begin to ___; when times are lean, construction slacks off.

• feint

• compensate

• proliferate

• terse

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

Their so-called peace initiative proved to be nothing more than a clever ___ designed to lull the enemy into a false sense of security.

• terse

• feint

• dissolute

• subjugate

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

A telegram was usually as ___ as possible, since there was a charge for every word used in it.

• lucrative

• unflinching

• terse

• adjourn

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

A ___ student is one who neither fails any subject nor receives any marks that are above average.

• mediocre

• fodder

• alien

• compensate

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

To enlarge the areas under their control, kings of old sent out their armies to ___ their neighbors.

• lucrative

• dissolute

• subjugate

• explustion

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

The speaker advised us not to imitate the ___ kind of person who squanders time and money in the vain pursuit of pleasure.

• feint

• lucrative

• dissloute

• jeer

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

In spite of all the adverse criticism her ideas have received, she remains ___ in her determination to improve our community.

• erratic

• proliferate

• unflinching

• compensate

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E