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

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

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

• auxiliary
• heterogeneous

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CCSS.L.1.5A

CCSS.L.1.5B

CCSS.L.K.5A

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

• inscribed
• feigned

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

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

• rasping
• heterogeneous

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

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

• heterogeneous

• candid

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CCSS.L.3.2F

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

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

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

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

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

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CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

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

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CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

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

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4