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    Vocabulary, Scarlet Letter

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    The Scarlet Letter

    Vocabulary Practice

    Read the sentences and supply them with the appropriate forms of the words
    from the list.

    1. His mother ____________ him for eating too quickly.


    Her teacher ____________her to work harder for her exams.

    2. He wrote an ____________ philosophical essay and students found it hard to


    understand his philosophical views.

    3. Throughout the ordeal of her husband's funeral, Mrs. Kennedy was a model of
    ____________ (= behaved in a controlled and calm way).

    4. This stretch of land was once covered with ____________ forest, but is now bare.
    We've bought a wonderfully ____________carpet for our bedroom.

    5. She has worked at such ____________ institutions as Boston's Museum of Fine Arts
    and the Metropolitan Art Museum in New York.

    6. For most New Yorkers, there are few things as ____________ as strangers
    accosting you on the street.

    7. He watched her ____________ hand reach for the teacup.


    In a ____________ voice she whispered: "Who are you people?"

    8. He has a history ____________business dealings.

    9. The novel deals with grand themes, but is never heavy or ____________.
    No one was truly fond of him because he was always a ____________, self-
    important young man.

    10. He's the author of an____________ book on Scottish history. (Adjective from a noun
    which means having or containing a lot of knowledge that is known by very few people)
    For the general reader, Marxist-Leninist or not, their energy and ____________ are
    evident today.
    11. President Trump rejects what he calls "chain migration”, a term others view
    as____________, in favor of giving visas to immigrants with specific technology skills or
    other sought-after experience.”
    Dark humor and ____________social commentary permeate the show and are used to
    a higher intensity than in his previous work.

    12. The adverts ____________ the customer into buying things they don't really want.
    People are being ____________ away from the profession by higher salaries elsewhere.
    13. He was ____________ by the press as a monster.

    14. He became/grew increasingly ____________ when she failed to return his phone calls.
    She started to feel ____________ about ever finding a job.

    15. They searched for hints about his intentions, but the players found his
    answers ____________.
    His ideas are at once both ____________ and sublime.

    16. A few months ago, I wrote a ____________ post to the group about how much, in hard
    parenting weeks, I missed my mom.
    Looking back, I also hear the ____________ wail of a desperate child who believes he is
    alone in the world with no one to care for him.

    17. There were pictures of ____________ children on the cover of the magazine.
    The lions were ____________ and dehydrated after the international animal welfare
    group Four Paws extracted them from a zoo in eastern Mosul in Iraq and an amusement
    park near Aleppo in Syria.

    18. He accused the government of____________.


    We’re used to politicians who stretch the truth, who waffle or ____________, who
    emphasize some facts while omitting others.

    19. Now, instead of their days being filled with chuckles and ____________, their days are
    crammed with those sobs demanding that they do an honest day's work!
    Her impersonations of our teachers were a source of considerable ____________.

    20. His opinions have always been distinctly ____________.


    Early in November, just a few days before the election, a gathering of white
    nationalists, ____________ academics, libertarians, and other misfits of the right
    convened in Baltimore.

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