Question

Fill in each blank with the most appropriate word from lesson 11. Use a word or any of its forms ONLY ONCE.

Answer 1

1. Mary Todd Lincoln's life was marked by three traumatic episodes: the deaths of sons Willie and Tad and the assassination of her husband, the president.

2. Most wildflowers are transient they wilt soon after they are picked.

3. Years of drought in north central Africa have created a (n) aberration of refugees numbering in the thousands.

4. A transitive verb carries action from the doer to the receiver, as in "The batter smacked the ball."

5. Newspapers published a (n) obituary of Emperor Hirohito of Japan the day after his death in 1989.

6. In spite of its name, the French Quarter of New Orleans retains a Spanish colonial ambience for the years it belonged to Spain.