Vocabulary Unit 5 revisioN -Grade 10

American presidents often point to one of their school teachers as the __________________ who helped shape their character and ideas.

• discrepancy

• benefactor

• dearth

• clemency

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

• truculent

• chivalrous

• diffident

• remiss

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

• clemency

• assent

• temerity

• repose

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

• indomitable

• truculent

• remiss

• virulent

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

• clemency

• dearth

• repose

• temerity

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

• chivalry

• assent

• remiss

• temerity

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

• plodding

• assenting

• reposing

• embarking

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

• facile

• remiss

• pungent

• diffident

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

• infallible

• truculent

• chivalrous

• indomitable

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

• dearth

• repose

• discrepancy

• clemency