Vocabulary Quiz-Week of February 1

Only seemingly so; apparent.

bourgeois

Existing in a state of moral, cultural, or intellectual darkness; unenlightened.

Many families reduced to __________________ by the Great Depression, traveled to look for work.

To stay away from; to shun, especially on practical or moral grounds.

After years of battle, in the 1960s the Muslim majority’s vote in Algeria ___its independence.

The man declaimed the King's speech in a pompous manner that the effect was rather__than moving

credo

The parents’ efforts to save the publicly funded nursery school from being closed were _______.

____Betty Friedan rejected the notion that “biology is destiny” in her 1963 revolutionary work.

An expression of approval; praise.

The senator ______________________upon the need to preserve our dwindling wetlands.

Some birds feed their young by ________________food into their offsprings’ beaks.

Based on experience or observation as opposed to theory.

Unwilling to accept another’s authority; stubbornly defiant.