LET'S HAVE FUN WITH VOCAB!!

Ready for some VOCAB fun? Put on your thinking caps and see if you can crack each blank using the clues and sentence context. Let the word game begin!

 

1.   We’ve known each other for a long time, but I’ve never seen him looking so deb_______________ (*meaning “well-dressed and stylish; confident”) as that in my life. He looked so attractive and snatched in a new suit that night.

 

2.   Her prig_________ (*meaning self-righteous, overly proper, or acting like an annoying know-it-all about rules and manners) and condescending attitude always makes me stifled and sick.

 

3.   Thanks so much for being such a generous and fabulous audience tonight. I deeply appreciate it that you’ve been bearing with my desol________ (*meaning “lack of definite plan, regularity, or purpose/ not connected to the main subject”) thoughts and plati__________s (*meaning “a banal, trite, or stale remark”) in my speech.

 

4.   Sometimes Martha binge-watches sappy tear-jerking sud_________s (*meaning “soap opera or any movie, play, or the like that is designed to provoke a tearful response”) so that she could cry herself to sleep at night.

 

5.   If you want to be sha_________ing (*meaning “to frequently use social media to share photos or other details and information about one’s child”), be careful not to go too far. Let your children know that they are often visible on their parents’ social media platform.

 

6.   Chad is such a big eater. He always makes me wonder if it is truly impossible for a human to keep eating ad inf_______________. (*meaning “incessantly/ endlessly/ limitlessly”)

 

7.   Dorothy looks like a typical parv______________ (*meaning “one that has recently or suddenly risen to an unaccustomed position of wealth or power and has not yet gained the prestige, dignity, or manner associated with it”). All the socialites at the party sensed that she must’ve become nouveau riche without having a chance to develop appropriate manners or noblesse oblige.

 

8.   I just moved into this town a month ago. I’m afraid I am not the right person to be your cice_____________ (*meaning “to a guide who conducts sightseers”) show you around.

 

9.   Each time I visited my friend’s nail salon, the first thing that caught my eyes was a charming Japanese Maneki-____________ (*meaning “beckoning cat" in Japanese. It is a traditional Japanese figurine—commonly made of ceramic or plastic—believed to bring good fortune, prosperity, and customers to its owner”)

 

10.          After the severe arctic blast, the entire town was ________reft of (*meaning “lacking, deprived of, or completely without something”) electricity and water.

 

 

 

Answer Keys

    1.  debonair

    2.  priggish

    3.  desultory, platitude

    4.  desultory, sudser

    5.  sharenting

    6.  ad infinitum

    7.  parvenu

    8.  cicerone

    9.  Maneki-Neko

    10. berft