English 9A Vocabulary Unit One

My grandmother has a lot of ___________________ in her garden. 

(v) to caution or advise against, to scold mildly

I have a really hard time __________________ control to someone else. 

The scent from the candle ______________ throughout the room.

Rainsford's clothes were too ____________________ while swimming, so he took them off. 

(v) to incline to beforehand

Choose the correct parts of speech for the word (to) diffuse or diffuse (describes)

We tried to ___________________ as much as we could after the fire. 

There was a _________________ in the wall of the dam and water was spilling out.

(adj) careful, cautious

(adj) clumsy, hard to handle, slow moving

(adj) lasting for a long time, persistent; (n) a plant that lives for many years

(n) an opening, rupture, rift; (v) to create an opening, break through

(v) to save from fire or shipwreck; (n) property thus saved

I went into the hall to _____________________ the students who were being too loud.

Synonym for cumbersome

Choose the correct part of speech for the word cumbersome (describes)

Synonym for perennial

We made a complete ______________ of our English project, it wasn't even worth passing in. 

(v) to let go, give up, to surrender

Choose the correct part of speech for the word (to) admonish

You have to be very ______________________ when choosing which friends to trust with a secret.

(v) to spread or scatter freely; (adj) wordy, long-winded or unfocused

Synonym for circumspect

Synonym for salvage

I am _____________________ to getting sick at the start of every school year. 

Synonym for breach

(v) to make a mess of; to get by (n) a hopeless mess