Vocabulary Workshop Level F Unit 14 Choosing the Right Word Answers
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| Word | Sentence |
|---|---|
| berate | Although Gone with the Wind won a Pulitzer Prize, critics often ____ the novel for its stereotypical portrayals of African Americans. |
| supplicate | In the poem and prayers of many ancient cultures, human beings ___ their deities for mercy and aid. |
| amendable | Our dean is a strict disciplinarian, but I have always found her ___ to reasonable requests. |
| jejune | A well-known actor submitted his poems to a publisher, who deemed the verses ___ and tedious. |
| precocious | Given the kinds of tools the ancient Egyptians had to work with, the construction of the pyramids was an extraordinary ___ feat of engineering. |
| carnage | The ___ caused each year by careless driving has become a major national scandal. |
| obdurately | What disturbs the coach is not that Tom called the wrong play, but that he refuses ____ to admit that he made a mistake. |
| tortuous | Some journalists find researching materials in a library a ___ task, preferring to sit and let their computers do the work. |
| sadistic | Passengers who are stranded on airplanes and forced to sit on the tarmac for hours may begin to think of airlines as ___ agencies. |
| inception | Since its ___, the electric guitar had been a symbol of innovation, energy and rebellion. |
| infirmity | Few things are more tragic than to see a great mind fall victim to a serious ___. |
| jejune | You cannot dismiss everything he says as ____ simply because he is young and lacks experience of the world. |
| expatiates | Although he ____ fluently on the need for a new community action program, I have yet to see him do anything to bring it about. |
| sententious | In his efforts to impress moral principles on the children. he made use of ____ formulas, such as “To be good, do good.” |
| criterion | The sales manager said she would apply only one ____ when assembling my plan for an advertising campaign: “Will it sell more mouthwash?” |
| potpourri | I think the class show will be much more effective if it has a constant theme running through it, instead of being just a ___ of songs, dances, and sketches. |
| berating | Instead of constantly ___ the children, why don’t you try to explain quietly and clearly how you expect them to behave? |
| extraneous | My rules for effective writing are, “Emphasize what is essential, play down what is secondary, eliminate what is ___.” |
| depleted | The prolonged drought has so ___ the supplies of in our reservoir that we may have to consider rationing water. |
| inception | At the very ___ of my career, I set the goals and adopted the basic strategies that were to guide me through the many years of outstanding success. |
| turgid | His ____ conversation, with its exaggerated adjectives and far-fetched figures of speech, made me realize once and for all the virtues of plain speaking. |
| sadistic | Although he is not given to physical maltreatment, I think there is a truly ___ element in his willingness to humiliate people by belittling them in public. |
| tortuous | She tried to justify the lies she had told us, but I was unable to follow her ____ explanation. |
| credulous | Vic is so ___ that he actually believed me when I said that I had invented an automatic composition-writing machine. |
| surfeit | I have had my ___ of excuses and evasions; now I want action. |
Vocabulary Workshop Level F Unit 14 Completing The Sentence Answers
| Word | Sentence |
|---|---|
| supplicate | Although I ask no special consideration for myself, I am not too proud to ___ on behalf of my children. |
| credulous | The more ____ you are, the easier it will be for swindlers and con artists to hoodwink you. |
| criterion | Usefulness is not the only ____ for including words in this book, but it is a primary one. |
| obdurate | In spite of all our efforts to appeal to whatever human sympathies the kidnappers might have, they remained ___. |
| extraneous | He instructions told me exactly what I wanted to know, without a single _____ detail. |
| potpourri | Our reading program this term is a delightful ____ of stories, essays, poetry, and drama from many different periods. |
| depleted | My last date turned out to be such an expensive affair that my funds were sadly ___ for the rest of the month. |
| tortuous | The steam for a(n) ____ course as it twisted through the broken countryside. |
| amendable | When my stubborn brother proved so ___ to my request, I began to suspect that he had some special reason for wanting to please me. |
| turgid | The simple and austere prose of the Gettysburg address stands in stark contrast to the ____ and overblown rhetoric of a great many other nineteenth-century orations. |
| sadistic | Although he announces piously how much it hurts him to punish people, I think he takes a(n) ____ pleasure in it. |
| surfeited | Wouldn’t you agree that TV has been ___ lately with sitcoms and reality shows? |
| sententious | When I asked him why he wasn’t going to prom, he answered in his usual ____ style, “No dough, no dance!” |
| berated | You deserve to be severely ____ for your misbehavior during such a solemn ceremony. |
| jejune | “How do you expect your mind to grown when you feed it solely on the ____ pap that comes out of the television?” I asked pointedly. |
| carnage | It is difficult to imagine the ____ that would result from an all-out war fought with nuclear weapons. |
| infirmities | One of the benefits I gained from my summer job in the new hospital was learning to be patient with people suffering from various types of _____. |
| expatiate | It’s painful to have to listen to him ____ on his own virtues when I’m dying to give some fascinating details about my own life and accomplishments. |
| precocious | Any child who can read at the age of three must be considered remarkably _____. |
| inception | At the very ____ of his administration, the new president announced a lost of the objectives he hoped to accomplish. |
Vocabulary Workshop Level F Unit 14 Synonyms and Antonyms Answers
| Synonym | Sentence |
|---|---|
| jejune | an “insipid” view of history |
| turgid | the “overblown” rhetoric of the politician |
| supplicate | “entreat” the captain on behalf of her son |
| tortuous | a “meandering”, complicated plot |
| sententious | a “didactic” way of addressing the group |
| credulous | too “naive” to perceive trickery |
| potpourri | a “melange” of spices |
| inception | was present at the product “launch” |
| amenable | not “acquiescent” to that idea |
| criterion | a “guideline” by which to judge the entries |
| Antonyms | Sentence |
|---|---|
| sententious | Bored by the “wordy” presentation |
| jejune | a “sophisticated” sense of humor |
| potpourri | a “lack of variety” in the show’s acts |
| turgid | thought the decor was too “plain” |
| credulous | too “perceptive” for her own good |
Vocabulary Workshop Level F Unit 14 Vocabulary in Context Answers
a precocious child is
mature beyond her years
an extraneous consideration is
superfluous
someone who is credulous is
naive
an obdurate person is NOT
compliant
a tavern in a state of infirmity looks
dilapidated
Other Vocab Workshop Level F Answers
| Unit | Link |
|---|---|
| Unit 1 | Vocabulary Workshop Level F Unit 1 Answers |
| Unit 2 | Vocabulary Workshop Level F Unit 2 Answers |
| Unit 3 | Vocabulary Workshop Level F Unit 3 Answers |
| Unit 4 | Vocabulary Workshop Level F Unit 4 Answers |
| Unit 5 | Vocabulary Workshop Level F Unit 5 Answers |
| Unit 6 | Vocabulary Workshop Level F Unit 6 Answers |
| Unit 7 | Vocabulary Workshop Level F Unit 7 Answers |
| Unit 8 | Vocabulary Workshop Level F Unit 8 Answers |
| Unit 9 | Vocabulary Workshop Level F Unit 9 Answers |
| Unit 10 | Vocabulary Workshop Level F Unit 10 Answers |
| Unit 11 | Vocabulary Workshop Level F Unit 11 Answers |
| Unit 12 | Vocabulary Workshop Level F Unit 12 Answers |
| Unit 13 | Vocabulary Workshop Level F Unit 13 Answers |
| Unit 14 | Vocabulary Workshop Level F Unit 14 Answers |
| Unit 15 | Vocabulary Workshop Level F Unit 15 Answers |
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