ELA8 VOCABULARY Week 20 Review

Wealthy individuals often make provisions in their wills to ________ to their favorite charities.

• endow

• encroach

• fend

The picnic was enjoyable, but we spent quite a bit of time _________ing off ants and mosquitos.

• fend

• encroach

• endow

Bullies must be made to realize that they cannot push other people around with ________.

• impunity

• mien

• prodigy

A person may adopt a cheerful ______ in an attempt to conceal sorrow or anger.

• mien

• prodigy

• impunity

The speaker is a man who served ten years in prison and is now devoting his life to bringing about reforms in our ________ system.  

• penal

• predominant

• pertinent

The joke you told was very amusing, but I fail to see how it was _______ to the conversation.

• pertinent

• predominant

• penal

True, I wanted to make some money, but my ______________ reason for taking the job was that I needed practical work experience.

• predominant

• penal

• pertinent

The careers of some musical _______ have tuned out to be short-lived.

• prodigies (plural of prodigy)

• recluse

• renown

An individual who has suffered a great emotional loss may become something of a ________.

• recluse

• prodigy

• impunity

Even before Martin Luther King, Jr., won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, his ________ had spread throughout most of the world.

• renown

• mien

• recluse