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.