Level E Unit 5: Choosing the Right Word

American presidents often point to one of their schoolteachers as the ____________________ who helped shape their character and their ideas.

• discrepancy
• benefactor

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

We soon learned that behind his retiring and __________________ manner, there was a keen mind and a strong will.

• truculent
• diffident

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

In a grim old joke, a man found guilty of murdering his parents appeals for _________________ because he is an orphan.

• clemency
• assent

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

It would be ________________ of me, as an editor-in-chief of the school newspaper, not to express appreciation for the help of our faculty advisor.

• indomitable
• remiss

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

After boasting to me of your family's great wealth, how could you have the _______________ to ask me for a loan?

• clemency
• temerity

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

As as state legislator, you should not give your _____________ to any measure unless you truly believe in it.

• assent
• chivalry

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

We breathed a sigh of relief when we saw the supposedly missing set of keys ____________ in the desk drawer.

• plodding
• reposing

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

I admired the speaker's ________________ flow of words, but they failed to convince me that she had practical ideas to help solve our problems.

• remiss
• facile

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

By 1781, George Washington's green recruits of a few years earlier had been forged into an ___________________ army.

• infallible
• indomitable

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

With all the deductions for taxes, there is a substantial _______________ between my official salary and my weekly paycheck.

• dearth
• discrepancy

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F