Sadlier Level E Unit 8 Choosing the Right Word

Can you be so (*apprehensive, ingenuous*) that you don't realize she is paying us all those phony compliments to get something out of us?

Yes, there is some (*apathy, animosity*) between different racial and ethnic groups, but it can be overcome by education and experience.

He is so absorbed in himself that the has become (*parsimonious, suave*) in the normal expression of human sympathy and affection.

I think we should offer congratulations rather than (*revels, condolences*) for the disappearance of that battled old heap you called a car.

In this third century of our nations' life, let us (*stultify, consecrate*) ourselves anew to the ideals of human freedom.

Some people are (*omnivorous, parsimonious*) readers, with a lively appetite for all types of fiction and nonfiction.

Two of the chief strengths of modern American society are the variety and vitality that arise from its (*multifarious, obsolete*) cultures.

Those students who have been doing their work all term need not feel (*apprehensive, recalcitrant*) about the final examination.

The headwaiter was so (*suave, ingenuous*) and self-assured in his manner that we took him for a diplomat.

Your unwillingness to study foreign languages is in no way (*compatible, omnivorous*) with your ambition to get a job in the foreign service.

Our Constitution is more than 200 years old; but far from being (*suave, decrepit*), it is still a vital, dynamic, and highly practical plan of government.

Many stand-up comedians regularly (*revel, deride*) popular fads and fashions.

So we are faced with that old (*quandary, reprisal*) -- an income that simply can't be stretched to cover the things that we simply must have.

The address was so dull and long-winded that it seemed to (*consecrate, stultify*) rather than inspire the audience.

When my friends appeared with a stack of CDs, I realized that our crash study session might become an all-day (*reprisal, revel*).