Unit 2 Set B: Completing the Sentence P.33

Choose the word from the word bank that best completes each of the following sentences. The fact that you say you are truly sorry does not _______ for the pain I have suffered as a result of your cruelty.

• compensate

• adjorum

• unflinching

• excuse

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CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.4A

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.L.9-10.3

CCSS.L.9-10.6

Choose the word from the word bank that best completes each of the following sentences. The speaker advised us not to imitate the _______ kind of person who squanders time and money in the vain pursuit of pleasure.

• dissolute

• lucrative

• feint

• industrious

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CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.4A

CCSS.L.9-10.5

Choose the word from the word bank that best completes each of the following sentences. He was a changed young man after his _______ from West Point for 'conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman.'

• expulsion

• compensate

• enrollment

• admission

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CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.4A

CCSS.L.9-10.3

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Choose the word from the word bank that best completes each of the following sentences. Despite all my efforts to make this a(n) _______ enterprise, it continues to be a decidedly unprofitable organization.

• lucrative

• unprofitable

• proliferate

• simple

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CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.4A

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.L.9-10.3

Choose the word from the word bank that best completes each of the following sentences. In spite of all the adverse criticism her ideas have received, she remains _______ in her determination to improve our community.

• unflinching

• wavering

• feint

• indecisive

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CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.4A

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.L.9-10.3

Choose the word from the word bank that best completes each of the following sentences. When it is time to end one of our meetings, a member must make a motion to _______.

• adjourn

• compensate

• lucrative

• continue

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CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.4A

Choose the word from the word bank that best completes each of the following sentences. Their so-called peace initiative proved to be nothing more than a clever _______ designed to lull the enemy into a false sense of security.

• feint

• faint

• strategy

• adjourn

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CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.4A

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Choose the word from the word bank that best completes each of the following sentences. When the national economy is expanding, new housing developments begin to _______; when times are lean, construction slacks off.

• proliferate

• lucrative

• sully

• dissolute

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CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.4A

CCSS.L.9-10.5

Choose the word from the word bank that best completes each of the following sentences. Write the correct word or form of the word in the space provided. The thoroughly disgraceful behavior of a few dissipated officers effectively _______ the honor of the entire unit.

• sully

• honor

• praise

• unflinching

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CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.4A

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Choose the word from the word bank that best completes each of the following sentences. Our doctor's handwriting is so _______ that my brother mistakenly used one of her prescriptions as a teacher's pass.

• illegible

• expulsion

• neat

• readable

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CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.4A

CCSS.L.9-10.5