Level B-1 Vocab

like an engineer tending the boilers on a ​ ​ (a)   steamer 

a flour mill, run off a ​ ​ (b)   electric motor

proposals aimed at bringing ​ ​ (c)   riches down to Earth.

First it was arc lights, then ​​ (d)   bulbs, neon, fluorescent tubes, mercury vapor, sodium vapor.

these sorts of speeches, though usually not this ​ ​ (e)  

• foundering
• condemned
• celestial
• incandescent
• florid
• august
• elusive
• becoming
• deferential
• chromatic

You think how ​ (a)   it will look in print.

Who is this​ ​​ (b)   creature, the reader? 

making him do things that were not ​ (c)   in a man of forty-five

He straightened and stole a ​ (d)   peek at her face

the tones that stirred Silas’ heart grew ​ ​ (e)  

• august
• elusive
• becoming
• deferential
• articulate
• chromatic
• adept
• formidable
• enfeebled
• ephemeral

Vancouver rolled out the utility trucks and set out to replace the ​ (a)   aberrations

the more we practice, the more ​​ (b)   our brains become

It is decorated with a ​ (c)   ​ portrait

there was a sense of crowding remembrances that lay lightly on his ​​ (d)   spirit

not an ​​ (e)   mathematical spot but myself

• chromatic
• adept
• formidable
• enfeebled
• ephemeral
• grave
• feeble
• impregnated
• cognitive
• colloquial

soon the reader will be lost, and there's no sin so ​ (a)   , for the reader will not easily be lured back

He must let no ​ (b)   feelings of mercy prevent him

A blue LED, ​ (c)   with a yellow phosphor, would do the job. 

Certain ​ ​ (d)   skills are strengthened by our use of computers

K'ang-hsi learned fluent Manchu and ​ (e)   Chinese

• grave
• feeble
• impregnated
• cognitive
• colloquial
• equivalent
• gaudy
• fine
• fluorescent
• indigo

picking from his trove of ​ (a)   statements 

You will reach for ​ (b)   similes and tinseled adjectives

The fascinating and ​ (c)   portents accompanying his birth

she developed a ​ (d)   capacity for mischief

First it was arc lights, then incandescent bulbs, neon, ​ (e)   tubes, mercury vapor, sodium vapor.

• equivocal
• gaudy
• auspicious
• fine
• fluorescent
• foundering
• condemned
• celestial
• august
• deferential