Name: ____________________________________________________________ Level E, Unit 1: Practice
Choose the answer that best completes the sentence or answers the question.
1. If your mouth is open wide while you are staring
at something, you are:
A peering
B gaping
C ranting
D dozing
4. Someone who got dressed in a hurry might be
described as looking:
A spiffy
B tidy
C unkempt
D unnatural
2. During difficult times, it is important to show:
A faintheartedness
B fortitude
C indifference
D helplessness
5. Which of the following is the opposite of frank?
A insidious
B honest
C aboveboard
D ingenuous
3. Which of the following would you use to describe
remarks that were published word for word in a
newspaper?
A verbatim
B summarized
C paraphrased
D edited
6. Another word for semblance might be:
A realm
B asylum
C guise
D background
Years ago, parents and teachers often discouraged children who were naturally left-handed from staying that
way. Did they do so because they felt that using scissors and other tools that were made for a right-handed
world would be easier if the children learned to favor their right hands? Or were they motivated by a concern
that the “lefties” might be subjected to the gibes of other children for being different? The reason behind the
emphasis on right-handedness is not clear. What is clear, however, is how adaptable and pliable young children
are. Many ended up becoming ambidextrous, having learned to use their right hands comfortably while
retaining the ability to use their left hands with just as much ease. Their abilities now augmented, they could
write, throw, and perform other actions with either hand if they needed to.
7. In line 4, gibes is used to show that left-handed
children might have once been:
A respected
B pitied
C ridiculed
D praised
8. Children who are pliable (line 5) are:
A defiant
B inflexible
C curious
D adaptable
Vocabulary Workshop, Level E
9. Which of the following could a person who is
ambidextrous (line 6) be expected to do?
A run a marathon
B speak a foreign language
C use both hands equally well
D solve difficult problems
10. In line 7, augmented means:
A diminished
B increased
C decreased
D discovered
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