Vocabulary Unit 5 Reviewer

When Mrs Shimerda opened the bag and stirred the contents with her hand, it gave out a salty, earthy smell, very pungent, evem among the other odors of that cave. A pungent odor is NOT

• musky

• strong

• rich

• mild

I did not realize how beautiful the twins were until they fell asleep and I saw thier faces in complete ______________.

• repose

• remiss

• clemency

• assnet

I thought he assented to the suggestion that the words should be left out because they were left out in the corresponding paragraph above. Assented means to show _________.

• confusion

• humility

• accord

• opposition

What good are ____________ principles if no real attempt is made to help people by putting those principles into practice?

• facile

• chilvarous

• altruistic

• truculent

Its atmosphere is one of repose rather than excitement. Therefore, the environment can be described as ____________.

• busy

• relaxed

• stressful

• chaotic

He is not merely unpleasant but actually dangerous whenever he gets into one of his ____________ moods.

• truculent

• infallible

• unfeigned

• chivalrous

I loved the dim superstition, the propitiatory intent, that had put the grave there, and still more I loved the spirit that could not carry out the sentence --- the error from the surveyed lines, the clemency of the soft earth roads along which the home-coming wagons rattled after sunset. If the road seems to have clemency, it is ___________.

• bumpy

• paved

• winding

• smooth

The principal claimed that there were major ____________ between what actually happened in the school and the way the incident was reported on TV.

• discrepancies

• clemencies

• benefactors

• attainments

It's outrageous that the owners of her building were so remiss in their balcony inspection duties. To be remiss is to be __________.

• inoffensive

• courteous

• thoughtless

• mindful

Emphasizing the youth of the convicted man, the defense attorney pleaded for his _____________.

• repose

• clemency

• assent

• demise