Units 7-9

At lunchtime, the room rang with the sound of _____________ debates between the fans of rival teams.

• commodious

• vociferous

• voluminous

• reprehensible

The Tech team was offside on the play, but since we had thrown them for an eighty-yard loss, we ______________ the five-yard penalty.

• abhorred

• buffeted

• waived

• amended

Shakespeare tells us that "the evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft ________________ with their bones."

• interred

• buffeted

• abhorred

• waived

Even in his old age, Thomas Jefferson kept up a ____________________ correspondence with important people in America and abroad.

• commodious

• turbulent

• voluminous

• extant

If you examine the evidence carefully, you will soon _______________ the contradictions in the witness's story.

• obviate

• discern

• abhor

• amend

I don't know which was more __________________ - making improper use of the money or lying about it later.

• somber

• vociferous

• corrosive

• reprehensible

In 1940, Winston Churchill conveyed to the British people the _________________ truth that they were fighting for their national existence.

• squalid

• corrosive

• somber

• extant

A compromise agreement reached in the judge's chambers would clearly _________________ the need for a long, costly lawsuit.

• obviate

• discern

• amend

• inter

When he accused me of playing fast and loose with the rules, I lost my temper and called him an officious _____________.

• renegade

• martinet

• discernment

• turbulence

Let me say frankly that I ___________________ prejudice in anyone, even a member of my own family.

• abhor

• discern

• obviate

• implicate