Vocabulary Unit 6 Assessment

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Even a young actor can appear old through the ___ of stage makeup. Craftiness, trickery, skill

excrescence : outgrowth This is an analogy

Movies portray Tarzan as a primitive, ___ creature, incapable of deceit or trickery.

factious : argumentative This is an analogy

To express his enthusiasm for American musical traditions, composer George Gershwin wrote ___ in Blue in 1924. A speech or writing with great enthusiasm.

Surfboarders must practice for hundreds of hours to become ___ at riding the curl of a wave. To do with ease-fluent.

Understanding the meaning of the word bark depends upon its ___: trees or dogs?

At times the noise in the New York City subway system reaches such a(n) ___ that it is impossible to carry on a conversation.