Set #8 - Vocabulary Question Preview (ID: 49941)
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Mrs. Hukill _______________(s) her students' angst about the ISTEP test by working hard and preparing them well.
a) placates
b) pretexts
c) misconstrues
d) platitudes
Because their misconduct was clearly deliberate, we have no feelings of _______________ in sentencing them to ten days of detention.
a) nocturnal
b) inveterate
c) compunction
d) clandestine
Young children sometimes _______________ their parents' motives because they don't always understand what adults are talking about.
a) pretext
b) misconstrue
c) reparation
d) inveterate
It has been claimed that many writers and artists have a(n) _______________ hostility to criticism.
a) inveterate
b) platitudes
c) quiescent
d) clandestine
Rather than fining the graffiti artist, the judge ordered him to make _______________(s) by painting the entire building.
a) platitudes
b) pretexts
c) clandestines
d) reparations
_______________ students are not tolerated by Mrs. Hukill during ISTEP time or any other time for that matter because students are here to work hard and graduate, not be lazy and do nothing.
a) Quiescent
b) Nocturnal
c) Inveterate
d) Clandestine
I sought some _______________ for excusing myself from the weekly staff meeting because I did not want to attend.
a) misconsture
b) pretext
c) platitudes
d) reparation
Most _______________ creatures have keen eyesight and acute hearing as it helps them to be get around in the dark.
a) quiescent
b) compunction
c) nocturnal
d) inveterate
The documents showed that, years before, the companies had made a(n) _______________ agreement to divide the market among them.
a) pretext
b) inveterate
c) reparation
d) clandestine
Our teacher motivated us with her infectious positivity toward the ISTEP test because she knew _______________ were insincere and uninspiring.
a) placates
b) platitudes
c) pretexts
d) reparations
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