Vocabulary Workshop Level F Unit 5

I didn't expect the play to be particularly stimulating, but I certainly never anticipated its overwhelmingly ______________ power.

• soporific

• equitable

• sepulchral

• equitable

How easy it is for a nation to become trapped in an inflationary price rise; how difficult to _____________ itself from the upward spiral!

• blazon

• flout

• filch

• extricate

Instead of brooding about past wrongs, I suggest that you declare a personal _____________________ and start thinking about the future.

• caveat

• precept

• amnesty

• scourge

Shivers went up and down our spines as, in a(n) ___________________ voice, the teacher spoke to us of ghosts, vampires, and the "living dead."

• sepulchral

• soporific

• straitlaced

• vapic

Unabridged dictionaries often alert the reader to common mistakes in the use of a word by including brief ____________.

• scourges

• transients

• precepts

• caveats

Appointed by the governor to be the Commissioner of Investigations, she soon became the _________________ of dishonest and incompetent officials.

• autonomy

• scourge

• caveat

• precept

You may regard her ideas as __________________, but I think that they reflect good thinking and sound values.

• axiomatic

• equitable

• fractious

• straitlaced

I intend to be guided by the ____________ that have proven their value over long periods of human experience.

• precepts

• scourges

• caveats

• blazons

Today our intricate network of mass communications can ______________ news of national importance across the country in a matter of minutes.

• scourge

• flout

• blazon

• filch

We had many talented players, but the ________________ behavior of a few individuals impaired our team spirit and led to a losing season.

• scathing

• straitlaced

• fractious

• sepulchral