Vocabulary Week 15 - 11th Grade

I was surprised that so trivial an incident should have provided such a fearful ___________________________ in the popular press.

• choleric

• bulwark

• cloy

• adamant

• brouhaha

The circumstances surrounding his death are so _____________________________ that the police aren't even sure a crime was committed.

• enigmatic

• impromptu

• mawkish

• mollify

• onus

By talking so much about your _______________________ that "we're going to have an accident," you are simply making me nervous and preventing me from driving properly.

• presentiment

• onus

• remit

• requisite

• profligate

I see no point in you applying for that job when it is perfectly clear that you lack the _______________________ qualifications.

• requisite

• presentiment

• profligate

• sartorial

• remit

He was so ____________________ with his inheritance that he consumed in a few years the fortune that had taken his parents a lifetime to accumulate.

• requisite

• remit

• onus

• mollify

• profligate

My getting the students to apologize for their thoughtless discourtesy, we ___________________ the anger of the elderly elevator operator.

• mawkish

• mollify

• onus

• presentiment

• impromptu

I think that the phrase "having a short fuse" aptly describes my new boss's _____________________________and curmudgeonly disposition.

• curtail

• cloy

• bulwark

• choleric

• deference

Somehow, whenever more money is needed for club activities, the ___________________ of raising it always falls on me!

• onus

• impromptu

• enigmatic

• mollify

• mawkish

We are still looking for an ______________________ answer to the question of whether or not our prisons can rehabilitate as well as punish.

• deference

• definitive

• demeanor

• cloy

• curtail

At first, I was glad to see my old classmate again, but he embarrassed me with his ___________________ talk about those "wonderful, golden school days".

• impromptu

• demeanor

• mollify

• mawkish

• enigmatic