Level G Unit 3 Choosing the Right Word Answers
| Word | Sentence |
|---|---|
| exhumed | Though the work hadn’t seen the light of day for over a century, a daring impresario _____ and staged it to great public acclaim. |
| evinced | The extraordinary musical talents of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart _____ themselves at an amazingly early age. |
| substantive | Because the playwright had hurried through her first draft, she had to make _____ changes as she revised the dialogue. |
| verdant | Unfortunately, the _____ hopes and aspirations of my youth have been somewhat blighted by the icy blasts of reality. |
| primordial | The behavior of armies in wartime often evinces the _____ blood lust that civilized people have not yet fully overcome. |
| cavorting | From the deck of our luxury liner, we occasionally caught sight of schools of porpoises _____ playfully in the waves. |
| verbiage | The book has an interesting plot, but the author has practically smothered it in endless _____. |
| eulogy | Not surprisingly, the address was a notably evenhanded affair in which the speaker cleverly mixed _____ with admonition. |
| utopian | The new mayor is a curious mixture of the hardheaded pragmatist and the _____ reformer. |
| nefarious | The United States is cooperating with the other nations of the world in an effort to check the _____ trade in narcotics. |
| substantive | Members of Congress were relieved to learn that the current peace negotiations involve _____ discussion of key issues. |
| dissemble | An accomplished hypocrite usually finds it very easy to _____ his or her true feelings as circumstances dictate. |
| propinquity | The _____ of our ideas on handling the problem made it very easy for my colleague and me to produce the report in record time. |
| propinquity | Given my birthday’s _____ to July 4th, my mother customarily decorates my wrapped gifts with red, white, and blue ribbons. |
| piquant | Far from being unpleasant, her slight foreign accent added an extra dash of spice to her already _____ personality. |
| utopian | Plato’s _____ description of the ideal society and its politics in The Republic exerted great influence on later philosophers like Aristotle. |
| feckless | When life was easy he was all dash and confidence, but in times of trouble his essentially _____ character came to the fore. |
| feckless | The _____ efforts of our new quarterback caused the team to lose. |
| unwonted | His _____ interest in the state of my finances strengthened my suspicions that he was about to ask for a loan. |
| piquant | In my opinion, the columnist’s observations about contemporary media and popular culture are humorous and wonderfully _____. |
| distraught | _____ with grief, they sat motionless for hours, staring blankly into space. |
| decried | The investigating committee _____ the use of substandard materials and slovenly workmanship in the housing project. |
| viscous | Trying the read your _____ prose is just like trying to swim upstream through custard. |
| credence | Despite all the reports of “miraculous” cures, you would be well advised to withhold _____ until the drug has been fully tested. |
| murky | From the bridge, the rescue team could just make out the blurred image of a car beneath the _____ waters of the river. |
Level G Unit 3 Synonyms and Antonyms Answers
| Word | Synonyms | Antonyms |
|---|---|---|
| articulate | pronounce, elucidate; eloquent | mumble, slur; tongue-tied, halting |
| cavort | gambol | N/A |
| credence | credit, trust, confidence | disbelief, skepticism, incredulity |
| decry | denounce, censure, devalue | tout, commend, extol, laud, praise |
| dissemble | dissimulate, mask, feign | N/A |
| distraught | frantic, distracted | calm, composed, collected |
| eulogy | panegyric, encomium, tribute, testimonial | philippic, diatribe, invective |
| evince | exhibit, manifest, occasion | N/A |
| exhume | disinter, unearth, uncover | bury, inter |
| feckless | feeble, helpless, incompetent, ineffectual | competent, capable, effective |
| murky | dim, cloudy, unclear | clear, transparent, lucid, limpid |
| nefarious | iniquitous, reprehensible | virtuous, honorable, praiseworthy, meritorious |
| piquant | tangy, zestful | bland, insipid, tasteless, mild |
| primordial | original, primeval, primal | N/A |
| propinquity | proximity, similarity | remoteness, distance |
| unwonted | unusual, uncommon, unexpected, atypical | usual, customary, typical |
| utopian | idealistic | realistic, pragmatic |
| verbiage | verbosity, prolixity, diction, jargon | N/A |
| verdant | artless, naive | scorched, sere, barren, arid |
| viscous | gummy, sticky, thick | runny, watery, aqueous |
Level G Unit 3 Completing The Sentence Answers
| An educated citizenry will not give credence to wild charges of extremists seeking to undermine our political and economic system. | credence |
| Although Aimee is usually quiet in class, her contribution to our political discussion yesterday was substantive. | substantive |
| The NCAA has in recent years cracked down hard on such nefarious practices as “shaving points”. | nefarious |
| I have always regarded the man as something of a daredevil, but on this occasion he approached the problem with unwonted caution. | unwonted |
| In the hands of our hopelessly feckless producer, what should have been a surefire hit turned into a resounding fiasco. | feckless |
| Even at an early age, my sister evinced a strong interest in studying medicine. | evinced |
| Such spices as red pepper make many of the sauces used in Cajun cooking delightfully piquant. | piquant |
| Since my apartment is in such close propinquity to my office, I usually walk to work. | propinquity |
| For as far as the eye could see, verdant fields of unripe corn swayed gently in the morning breeze. | verdant |
| How could we draw any clear ideas from a talk that was so disorganized, confused in language, and generally murky? | murky |
| Sadly, the utopian schemes of high-minded idealists usually founder on the rocks of practical realities. | utopian |
| I believe there is an overall design to the universe that has been visible ever since the first thing crawled out of the primordial ooze. | primordial |
| When new evidence turned up in the case, the court ordered the coroner to exhume the victim’s body and reexamine it. | exhume |
| Every Memorial Day, the mayor delivers a(n) eulogy extolling the selfless devotion of those who have died in defense of this country. | eulogy |
| When news of the fire ran through town, distraught residents rushed to the scene of the blaze. | distraught |
| Though diesel fuels are not as thick as motor oil, they are a good deal more viscous than regular gasoline. | viscous |
| The new chairman decried what she called the “deplorable tendency of so many Americans to try to get something for nothing.” | decried |
| Though I prefer to be as open and aboveboard as possible, I have learned that it is sometimes wiser or more tactful to dissemble. | dissemble |
| He clothes his puny ideas in such highfalutin verbiage that they resemble gnats in top hats and tails. | verbiage |
| When Bill was told that he had made the varsity wrestling team, he began to cavort around the gym like a young colt. | cavort |
Level G Unit 3 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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