Answers to Vocabulary Level E Unit 5 Review
Picture Sentences:
1. Seems to be in a truculent mood.
2. Planning to embark on that long awaited romantic vacation.
3. Better get your flu shot! This year’s strain is quiet virulent.
4. Is he a bit diffident about talking to girls at this age?
5. Many animals are known for their speed; but the lumbering elephant just plods along.
6. To have the heart of the lion is to have indomitable courage.
7. Of all animals, the scent of the skunk is thought to be the most pungent.
8. What fool would have the temerity to walk into a pen with this?
9. The devotion our pets offer us is totally genuine and unfeigned. And we would be
remiss if we mistreated them.
10. Er…uh….I guess there is a discrepancy in the stories I told you.
11. The cornucopia, or the Horn of Plenty, signifies harvest time when at least for a time
there will be no dearth of food.
12. With the Mafia’s hit man, there is no trial, no jury, no second chance, no clemency. The
mob just gets rid of you.
13. Hey, up there. I’m in a very precarious position. I hope you are infallible in your
judgment.
14. A much needed time for repose—How sweet it is!
15. Some landowners put “NO HUNTING” signs on their property. Others give their assent
to the hunters.
16. Through many just seek a tax break, there are some truly altruistic benefactors that
make out generous checks to worthy charities.
17. Compared to how our ancestors had to do the laundry, today it’s much more facile.
18. Oh, for the days of jousting knights and chivalrous deeds for damsels in distress.
Fill in the blank sentences:
1. I have received several gifts of money to help during my illness, but I do not know who
my benefactors are.
2. Never say die! Indomitable
3. The quality of those who “walk in where angels fear to tread.” Temerity
4. In dire straits because of a dearth of money.
5. You board a plane, but embark on a ship.
6. Stomp, stomp. Pant, pant. Seems like lead in our shoes. Plod
7. Cutting garlic or onions leaves this kind of smell on your hands. Pungent
8. What you are when you do not do your chores and homework. Remiss
9. A euphemism for lying in a casket. “The loved one is lying in repose.”
10. Since the women’s lib movement, it is difficult to see this kind of behavior from men
toward women. Chivalrous
11. If you give your assent to this plan, we can get started with it.
12. Easy as pie. Facile
13. He’s rather unassuming and unpretentious, wouldn’t you say? Diffident
14. Nazi Germany’s SS men were this. Truculent
15. No one is this! Infallible
16. We are encountering diseases that are especially virulent and resistant to antibiotics.
17. People who work in shelters for the homeless are probably altruistic people.
18. Ahem! There seems to be a discrepancy between your cash and the register records.
How do you account for this?
19. Not “put on.” Unfeigned
20. The lawyer sometimes begs the court for this for his client. Clemency.