Level G Unit 13 Choosing the Right Word Answers
| Word | Sentence |
|---|---|
| facade | Workers dismantled and cleaned parts of the Parthenon’s exterior __ during recent restoration work on the temple. |
| mesmerized | The audience was so quite after the curtain fell that I couldn’t tell whether they were bored or __ by her artistry. |
| putative | Philologists believe that many Western languages can be traced back to a __ parent tongue known as Indo-European. |
| engenders | A government that fails to create reform __ the social unrest that makes violent revolution inevitable. |
| affronted | In my youthful folly, I inadvertently __ the very people whose aid I was attempting to enlist. |
| captious | The President must always be on his toes becasue a careless answer to a __ question could land him in political hot water. |
| facade | It wasn’t at all hard to recognize signs of extreme uneasiness beneath her __ of buoyant optimism. |
| ghoul | His unmistakable interest in the gruesome details of the tragedy revealed that he possessed the sensibilities of a _. |
| decorous | Her quite speech, subdued clothes, and __ manner made it hard to believe that she was a famous rock star. |
| efficacy | “Do we have sufficient evidence at hand,” I asked, “to judge the __ of the new method of teaching reading?” |
| incongruous | It has been said that humor is essentially the yoking of __ elements within a familiar or recognizable framework. |
| cynosure | For any actor, it is a unique thrill to know that when you are alone on stage, you are the __ of hundreds of pairs of eyes. |
| contrite | If you had listened to my warnings in the first place, there woud be no need for you to feel __ now. |
| deign | I resent your nasty question about whether or not I will “__ to speak to ordinary students” after I’m elected class president. |
| desiccated | He acts like someone whose vital juices have long since dried up, leaving only a drab and _ shell behind. |
| opprobrium | The __ of history forever attaches itself to the name of Lee harvey Oswald, the assasin of President Kennedy. |
| machinations | The book describes in great detail the odious _ involved in Adolf Hitler’s rise to power in Germany. |
| canard | The candidate’s “shocking revelation” about his opponent was later shown to be nothing more than a malicious _. |
| ethereal | The play is so peopled with spirits and other incorporeal beings that it has the _ quality of a dream. |
| abstruse | He tried to conceal his lack of scholarship and intellectual depth by using unnecessarily __ language. |
| cognizant | Like many people who are completely wrapped up in themselves, she simply isn’t _ of the larger world around her. |
| mesmerized | The daring feats of the acrobats on the high wire completely __ everyone in the crowd. |
| canards | The 1938 radio broadcast by Orsan Welles that described a Martian invasion is on many lists of the greatest _ of the twentieth century. |
| ethereal | Sitting in the back of the cathedral, I strained to hear the lovely, __ voices of the children wafting down from the choir loft. |
| decorous | Guests at the formal reception exhibited __ behavior |
Level G Unit 13 Synonyms and Antonyms Answers
| Sentence | Synonym | Antonym |
|---|---|---|
| A FIENDISH interest in death | Ghoulish | Angelic |
| The PARCHED desert landscape | Desiccated | Looked over the SOGGY farmland |
| ESOTERIC concepts developed by experts | Abstruse | N/A |
| STOOPED to give a few interviews | Deigned | N/A |
| CONSCIOUS of our mutual responsibilities | Cognizant | N/A |
| Disliked for his NIT-PICKING tendencies | Captious | N/A |
| Foiled the SCHEMES of the villain | Machinations | N/A |
| BEGETS mistrust by covering up mistakes | Engenders | N/A |
| Brought SHAME on the whole family | Opprobrium | N/A |
| The JARRING reunion of longtime rivals | Incongruous | N/A |
| The UNREPENTANT ringleaders of the riot | N/A | Contrite |
| Looked over the SOGGY farmland | N/A | Desiccated |
| The UNSEEMLY appearance of the judge | Decorous | N/A |
| The KNOWN whereabouts of the fugitive | Putative | N/A |
| The ANGELIC statue | N/A | Ghoulish |
Level G Unit 13 Completing The Sentence Answers
| Sentence | Wrapped |
|---|---|
| The longer I study this country’s history, the more cognizant I become of my rich heritage of freedom | cognizant |
| Some historians question whether Benedict Arnold really deserves all the opprobrium he has been accorded as America’s arch-traitor. | opprobrium |
| At the risk of appearing a trifle captious I would like to raise a few small objections to the wording of this proposal | captious |
| After the battle, camp followers began the ghoulish process of stripping the dead of whatever valuables they possessed. | ghoulish |
| Some teachers are able to present the most abstruse subjects in terms that are crystal-clear to even the dullest of students | abstruse |
| The machinations of the unscrupulous wheeler-dealers involved in that unsavory scandal boggle the imagination. | machinations |
| I didn’t really believe that he was sorry for what he had done until I saw the contrite expression on his sad little face | contrite |
| The pages of the old book were so desiccated that they began to crumble as soon as we touched them | desiccated |
| There is not a bast body of evidence that supports the idea that poverty tends to engender crime. | engender |
| To be the cynosure of all eyes could be the joyous fulfillment of a dream or the unhappy realization of a nightmare. | cynosure |
| The only surefire way to establish the efficacy of a new drug in treating a disease is to test it “in the field” | efficacy |
| For more than five minutes she stared at the telegram containing the bad news, as if she were mesmerized | mesmerized |
| His fantastic stories about his academic, athletic, financial, and romantic achievements are a(n) affront to common sense. | affront |
| Am I supposed to feel honored simply because that arrogant lout sometimes deigns to nod vaguely in my direction? | deigns |
| Except for a balcony built during the Truman administration, the facade of the White House has remained virtually unchanged since it was constructed. | facade |
| What could be more incongruous than the 6 foot 7 inch center on the basketball team dolled up in baby clothes for the class play! | incongruous |
| No one knows for sure who really wrote the scene, but Shakespeare is generally regarded as its putative author. | putative |
| Only a thoroughly naive and gullible person would actually believe every preposterous canard that circulates in this school | canard |
| The child’s conduct during the ceremony may not have been appropriately decorous but it wasn’t horrendous either | decorous |
| The cherubic faces and ethereal voices of the choristers almost made me believe that the music they were singing was coming from heaven. | ethereal |
Level G Unit 13 Vocabulary in Context Answers
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Other Vocab Workshop Level G Answers
| Unit | Link |
|---|---|
| Unit 1 | Vocabulary Workshop Level C Unit 1 Answers |
| Unit 2 | Vocabulary Workshop Level C Unit 2 Answers |
| Unit 3 | Vocabulary Workshop Level C Unit 3 Answers |
| Unit 4 | Vocabulary Workshop Level C Unit 4 Answers |
| Unit 5 | Vocabulary Workshop Level C Unit 5 Answers |
| Unit 6 | Vocabulary Workshop Level C Unit 6 Answers |
| Unit 7 | Vocabulary Workshop Level C Unit 7 Answers |
| Unit 8 | Vocabulary Workshop Level C Unit 8 Answers |
| Unit 9 | Vocabulary Workshop Level C Unit 9 Answers |
| Unit 10 | Vocabulary Workshop Level C Unit 10 Answers |
| Unit 11 | Vocabulary Workshop Level C Unit 11 Answers |
| Unit 12 | Vocabulary Workshop Level C Unit 12 Answers |
| Unit 13 | Vocabulary Workshop Level C Unit 13 Answers |
| Unit 14 | Vocabulary Workshop Level C Unit 14 Answers |
| Unit 15 | Vocabulary Workshop Level C Unit 15 Answers |
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