Week 20 Vocabulary Words

to remove from the usual or proper place

• absurd

• vicinity

• displace

• appeal

The destructive fire would _____ many people from their homes.

• portable

• enforce

• absurd

• displace

the area around or near a particular place

• vicinity

• appeal

• verdict

• portable

There were twenty hotels in the vicinity of the train station.

• feat

• vicinity

• appeal

• portable

make an urgent request

• verdict

• senseless

• appeal

• enforce

I have made an ____ to my parents to reduce the length of time I am grounded, but so far I have had no success in convincing them of that.

• brisk

• verdict

• absurd

• appeal

able to be easily carried or moved

• brisk

• portable

• displace

• vicinity

Bob explained to the kids that before phones became ____, payphones could be found on many city streets.

• portable

• brisk

• absurd

• senseless

ridiculously unreasonable; illogical

• absurd

• senseless

• enforce

• displace

Claiming that your cat was abducted by aliens is ______.

• brisk

• absurd

• absurd

• portable