Poetry Vocabulary in Context

He will need to use all of his political _______ to stay in office.

• hue

• guile

• austere

• downy

The ____ lights of the city looked like a trillion little fireflies.

• myriad

• austere

• parry

• askance

I grabbed the tree branch and used it to _____ the dog's attack.

• hue

• subsides

• parry

• pensive

They were spun of the same ____ goat fur as our blankets, and were wonderfully soft.

• ample

• austere

• jocund

• downy

The compound loomed in front of him, the cement walls _____and forbidding.

• jocund

• austere

• downy

• hue

Do not ____ to the temptation to play video games instead of doing your homework!

• nay

• parry

• succumb

• subside

Robert Frost enjoyed the peace and _____ of the woods.

• preconceptions

• downy

• agitation

• solitude

He was always ___ and grinning, while I always just stare in annoyance.

• jocund

• pensive

• agitation

• impetuous

They looked _____ at our scruffy clothes.

• austere

• askance

• ample

• jocund

There were the things I did in my wild and ___ youth that I now regret.

• impetuous

• austere

• pensive

• myriad