Sentence Completers
Vocabulary List Nine
Erudite Student: ______Date: ______Block: ____
Directions: Fill in each blank with the correct vocabulary word. Each word is used once.
1) I don’t think I’d call such a(n) ______grammatical mistake a minor “slip of the pen.”
2) It will mean more to him to gain the approval of the few who can appreciate his work that to receive the ______of the crowd.
3) He holds forth in great detail on what is wrong with our city government, but the remedies he suggests are exceedingly ______.
4) Her mind, ______as a result of hours of exposure to the bitter cold, was not alert enough to sense the impending danger.
5) Since he was a(n) ______at bridge, the three veteran players hoped to find someone more suitable to fill out their table.
6) Using the most up-to-date equipment, the firefighters worked tirelessly to ______the victim of smoke inhalation.
7) The study of history teaches us that a hunger for land, like other kinds of ______, is the cause of great many wars.
8) Your brilliant plan is based on one false ______: that I am willing to work without pay.
9) The ______she had experienced in her childhood and youth made her keenly aware of the value of money.
10) Sure, it’s great to be a big-league ball player, but bear in mind that the years of stardom are brief and evanescent.
11) I told my friend that dress for the party was casual, but he showed up looking in my opinion, just plain ______.
12) Does he use all those quotations as a means of clarifying his meaning, or simply as a(n) ______display of his learning.
13) I was so ______about whether to out for basketball or for swimming that I ended up going out for neither.
14) As her anger slowly ______, she realized that such childish outbursts of emotion would do nothing to help solve her problems.
15) I was impressed by the ______way our hostess guided the conversation away from topics that might be embarrassing to her guests.
16) Since I truly loathe people who think they are “above the common herd,” any form of snobbery is absolutely ______to me.
17) Although she tried to ______, we insisted on a simple “yes” or “no” answer.
18) When you are ______in returning a book to the library, you are preventing someone else from using it.
19) After giving us extremely detailed instructions for more than an hour, she briefly ______and then sent us out on our assignments.
20) How can you consider him ______when the accident was caused by a landslide that no one could have foreseen or prevented?