English 10 vocab 19

The students responded ___. More than a hundred students came in – a sure sign that most everyone approved and felt no ___ against science fiction.

• Timorously, rift

• Diminutively, censure

• Admirably, bias

• Inalienably, amnesty

One story was about two warring planets. They had formerly been united under a single ruler, but a violent ___ between opposing factions had resulted in a split government.

• Bias

• Alienation

• Affidavit

• Rift

Another story was about a mad scientist and his young daughter, whom he calls Natty, a ___ form of her name, Natalie.

• Bias

• Diminutive

• Timorous

• Affidavit

The scientist invents a machine that makes decision for people, thus depriving them of their ___ right to think for themselves.

• Censured

• Diminutive

• Timorous

• Inalienable

The story focuses on how Natalie overcomes her shy and ___ nature and her small, ___ size in order to stand up against her twisted father.

• Diminutive, timorous

• Timorous, diminutive

• Inalienable, biased

• Biased, admirable

When Natalie ___ her father’s actions, he is disgusted by her obvious ___, or favorable inclination, toward people, and he ignores her criticism completely.

• Censures, bias

• Biases, rift

• Biases, affidavit

• Rifts, alienation

Natalie secretly acts against her father, creating ___ that divides them.

• bias

• a censure

• an affidavit

• a rift

To put an end to her father’s evil, Natalie publicly signs a(n) ___, an official paper, stating that his abuses against people ___ and that she has witnessed many of these. In the end, Natalie becomes an important intergalactic diplomat.  

• censure, rift

• bias, admirably

• affidavit, abound

• rift, abound

Natalie refuses to grant her evil father ____, and he is forced to live alone and unforgiven, exiled on a distant planet.

• bias

• censure

• amnesty

• rift

Obviously, I spent a lot of time on this story, but it didn’t win the contest. Although it was ____ told and was worthy of a prize, the other judge, Mr. Widman, discovered I had written it.

• admirably

• inalienably

• timorously

• diminutively