Quiz #2: Vocabulary

Complete each sentence with the appropriate word. Send your answers as comment below.

1. Miss Bigtas was taken aback by Jason's (reverence, obsequiousness, impudence). Never before had she seen such a disrespectful child.

2. The mayor's plan faced (vehement, weak, ambiguous) opposition from the class. Everybody was clearly against it.

3. Her (buoyant, jocund, lugubrious) mien told me that I should not talk further about the topic.

4. His appearance at the event was an (plain, evasive, unctuous, ) effort to appear sympathetic to the people.

5. Compared to Marion, who is quite outgoing, Minerva is a bit (diffident, aesthetic, loquacious).

6. I was able to (satiate, eschew, congeal) the girl scout selling cookies in my neighborhood, but only for so long. 

7. A (carping, overt, respectable) mother will drive any decent person to insanity.

8. Her interest in the project was purely (decorous, pecuniary, innocuous). Everybody knows her attitude with money.

9. When Superman is faced with cryptonite, he moves into a state of (exigency, mordant, atrophy) which requires him to struggle to be strong.

10. In the movie Titanic, people were seen hanging on to the (flotsam, jetty, fortress) in order to stay afloat.