Sadlier Unit 14 Set A words

In Dickens's novel Oliver Twist, the protagonist is so __________ that he does not understand that he is being trained to become a pickpocket.

• bland

• tedious

• naive

• niche

They claim to have “buried the hatchet,” but I fear they have only declared a temporary _____________ in their feud.

• solvent

• armistice

• ransack

• niche

Although I was furious, I faced my accusers with a ___________ smile.

• bland

• disclaiming

• tedious

• gratifying

You will learn that nothing is more __________ than to face a problem

squarely, analyze it clearly, and resolve it successfully.

• infinite

• disclaiming

• gratifying

• tedious

He found a comfortable _______ for himself at a bank and worked there

quite happily for more than 40 years.

• solvent

• armistice

• infinite

• niche

I my brain feverishly, but I was unable to find any way out of the

difficulty.

• ransacked

• gratified

The business had been losing money for years; but thanks to new management, it is _______ once again .

• infinite

• solvent

• tedious

• naive

Rather than _________ their religious faiths, many Protestants, Catholics, and Jews left Europe to settle in the New World.

• ransack

• disclaim

My next-door neighbor is a(n) _________ individual with a remarkable talent

for boring me out of my wits.

• tedious

• naive

• infinite

We are now learning the hard way that our energy sources are not ___________ and that we will have to use them carefully.

• bland

• infinite

• solvent