Choosing the Right Word P.132

I must admit now that I was hurt when the coach took me out in the last minutes of the game, but I tried to (a)   indifference.

• scuttle

• feign

I searched in vain through the ​ (a)   pile of odds and ends for the spare part I had inadvertently thrown away.

• auxiliary
• heterogeneous

The poet Browning tells us that if we were to open his heart, we would find the word "Italy" ​ (a)   inside it.

• inscribed
• feigned

As soon as I heard ​ (a)   noises coming from the workshop, I knew that someone was using a saw or a file.

• rasping
• heterogeneous

How can you say that the broadcast interview was spontaneous and (a)   when it was all carefully rehearsed?

• heterogeneous

• candid

Instead of sending your little sister as a(n) (a)   to explain what went wrong, why don't you stand up and speak for yourself?

• envoy
• flair

When I jolted awake last night to the sound of a desperate (a)   , I was cold with fear until I realized that it was my old dog, who sometimes has breathing problems.

• monologue

• rasping

People who boast of their high moral principles are often the ones who will (a)   them most quickly to serve their own interests.

• scuttle
• inscribe

She handed me a (a)   of slop for the pigs, and suddenly I was glad that this was a job I did not have to do very often.

• scuttle
• flair

Since the person I was trying to interview wouldn't let me get a word in edgewise, our conversation quickly turned into a(n) (a)   .

• envoy

• monologue