Vocabulary Workshop Unit 5 Level G

The marathon not only brought in huge sums of money for Africa's starving masses, but also __________ much sympathy for their plight.

• reputed

• garnered

• enervated

• delineated

Beneath the man's cultivated manner and impeccable grooming there lurked the ____________ mind of a brutal sadist.

• fecund

• mundane

• depraved

• figment

Most people I know are so busy dealing with the ordinary problems of life that they have no time for _____________ philosophical speculation.

• sumptuous

• reputed

• ubiquitous

• esoteric

The phonograph is but one of the wonderful new devices that sprang from the ___________ mind of Thomas Edison, our most prolific inventor.

• hallowed

• overweening

• mundane

• fecund

You may have many good traits, but I do not admire your ____________ for borrowing things and failing to return them.

• penchant

• acuity

• ignominy

• fiat

American-style fast-food shops have gained such popularity all over the world that they are now truly ____________.

• nuance

• depraved

• fecund

• ubiquitous

The ground in which those soldiers are buried was __________ by the blood they shed on it.

• delineated

• hallowed

• depraved

• reputed

The man is __________ to have mob connections, but so far no one has actually substantiated the allegation.

• overweening

• reputed

• enervated

• sumptuous

He means well, but we cannot tolerate his highly __________ behavior in an organization that depends on discipline and teamwork.

• fecund

• overweening

• esoteric

• mundane

The conversation between the computer programmers was so _________, that I wasn't sure they were speaking English.

• ubiquitous

• sumptuous

• fecund

• esoteric