Unit 1 Level F

My broad hint that I had paid for the lessons myself brought smiles of _______ from all the judges.

• Umbrage

• Approbation

• Hackneyed

• Expostulate

Her eyes told me that more than a few well- chosen words would be needed to _________ her hurt feelings.

• Intercede

• Simulate

• Assuage

• Elict

The various community organizations formed a ________ to lobby against parking laws.

• Petulant

• Lund

• Coalition

• Jaded

Some viewed her love of chocolate as _________ she ate two candy bars a day.

• Decadence

• Intercede

• Petulant

• Meritorious

My attempt to _________ information over the phone was met with a barrage of irrelevant recordings.

• Expostulate

• Innuendo

• Transcend

• Elicit

Shakespeare's Hamlet finds it useless to _______ with his mother for siding with his stepfather.

• Meritorous

• Expostulate

• Lund

• Unctuous

The Great Gatsby tells a universal story without being married by ______ prose.

• Assuage

• Elicit

• Hackneyed

• Provincial

I was awakened not by a sudden sound but by a _______ in the din of traffic.

• Hiatus

• Meritorious

• Decadence

• Approbation

She will ______ in the dispute between the two children and soon they will be playing happily again.

• Simulate

• Elicit

• Coalition

• Intercede

Those lacing the facts or afraid of reprisals often tarnish and enemy's reputation by use of __________

• Assuage

• Innuendo

• Petulant

• Umbrage