Vocabulary Power Plus 4 Lesson 11

Glenn's loan applications was rejected because he omitted some ____ information.

If you trace the ______ of the word "khaki," you will find that it comes from the Persian word for "dust."

The thief used the ______ of his car's being broken down to lure victims into the alley.

Using the word "less" instead of "fewer" when refering to individual items is a common ______.

(n.) the history of a word; the study of word origins

(n.) a gradual increase in intensity, force, or volume

The _____ of the concert hall had to book the famous soloist two years in advance.

(adj.) relating to or resembling an ape or monkey.

(n.) an entertainment producer or manager

Be careful: that dog is ____ to bite strangers.

(n.) a deliberately misleading story

Tina could tell by her own _____ that she had contracted her daughter's illness.

(n.) a defensive wall or embankment

(adj.) unrelenting; persistent

(adj.) uncompromising; refusing to moderate

The photograph of the alleged Bigfoot showed a _____ creature walking upright through the forest.

(adj.) relating to ordinary people.

The ____ man would rather go to prison than pay income taxes.

Residents constructed a _____ of sandbags to protect the town from the rising waters.

(adj.) insincere; calculating

The _____ used car salesman pointed out the car's new paint job, but not that the car had been a taxi.

(n.) vague bodily or emotional discomfort or uneasiness

(adj.) likely

The nuclear physicist had trouble explaining his theories in ____ lanaguage.

(n.) a group of attendance; an entourage

The two-week city police strike resulted in a ______ of crime.

The royal ____ filled every room of a hotel floor during the queen's visit.

(n.) a deviation or error in speech, manners, or deeds

(adj) required; necessary

Obsessed with his experiment, the ____ scientist locked himself in his lab and worked for three days without rest.