SAT/ACT Vocabulary Review Lesson 76

to overwhelm as if with a flood

favoring one's relatives

To minimize the outcries of _____, the CEO had his son start out as a stockroom boy.

Choose the best synonym: burgeon

Because of her cruel treatment of her enemies, British queen Mary Tudor earned the ugly _____"Bloody Mary".

The work piled up and threatened to ______ him.

a descriptive name

Choose the best synonym: gambol

The callous Prince was berated for ____(ing) about the woods on his horse while the king was being buried.

Choose the best synonym: epithet

To grow or to blossom

"Juvenile offenders are the fastest growing element in the ____(ing) crime rate." (M.K. Cary)

to leap or jump about joyfully

Choose the best synonym: nepotism

Choose the best synonym: inundate