ForresterMasterVocabAlphabeticalOrderCONV0008 Adv
176. in an aloof manner; ""the local gentry and professional classes had held aloof for the school had accepted their sons readily enough""
A. gossip
B. Mortified
C. adrift
D. Aloof
177. by a small margin; ""they could barely hear the speaker""; ""we hardly knew them""; ""just missed being hit""; ""had scarcely rung the bel
A. Barely
B. Stab
C. Fiddle
D. Sullenness
178. in a comical manner; ""she acted comically""
A. Swirling
B. Comically
C. Notorious
D. buster
179. in a fitful manner; ""he slept fitfully""
A. sigh
B. whim
C. baritone
D. Fitfully
180. in an adroit manner; ""he bounced it cleanly off the wall""
A. Squirt
B. Flawlessly
C. blossom
D. sob
181. with fondness; with love; ""she spoke to her children fondly""
A. fondly
B. Film
C. husky
D. unctuousness
182. for a relatively small amount of money; ""we bought the house for a song""
A. for a song
B. shiver
C. dusk
D. beam
183. prominently forward; ""he put his best foot foremost""
A. Squirt
B. squash
C. Foremost
D. shuddering
184. in a forlorn manner; ""a single chicken was scratching forlornly in the yard""
A. megaphone
B. dunk
C. forlornly
D. Ace
185. in a futile and unproductive manner
A. Plaque
B. Collective
C. shiver
D. futilely
186. in a grim implacable manner; ""he was grimly satisfied""
A. grimly
B. mumbling
C. soul mate
D. Clutch
187. in a huffy manner; ""`Don't bother to call me back,' he said huffily""
A. Heaving
B. heartbreak
C. Control Freak
D. huffily
188. with indifference; in an indifferent manner; ""she shrugged indifferently""
A. Frown
B. Guts
C. indifferently
D. sigh
189. in a keen and discriminating manner; ""he was keenly aware of his own shortcomings""
A. Moan
B. Singsong
C. Keenly
D. Renowned
190. in a meticulous manner; ""the set was meticulously authentic""
A. ritzy
B. Utmost
C. Drawl
D. Meticulously
191. in a portentous manner; ""portentously, the engines began to roll""
A. Portentously
B. Guts
C. Zigzag
D. beam
192. used as intensifiers; `real' is sometimes used informally for `really'; `rattling' is informal; ""she was very gifted""; ""he played very
A. tapped
B. dump
C. Mound
D. rattling
193. with reluctance
A. Swivel
B. Scramble
C. reluctantly
D. Inducing
194. in a grave and sedate manner; ""the judge sat there solemnly""
A. Blaring
B. Blur
C. swagger
D. Solemnly
195. extremely; ""bored stiff""; ""frightened stiff""
A. shielded
B. Tentatively
C. Stiff
D. for a song
196. in a stiff manner; ""his hands lay stiffly""
A. moron
B. Control Freak
C. Pulsing
D. Stiffly
197. in a tentative manner; ""we agreed tentatively on a dinner date""
A. Rustling
B. Tentatively
C. Singsong
D. heartbreak
198. in a shy or timid or bashful manner; ""he smiled shyly""
A. Casualness
B. Abhor
C. Flawlessly
D. Timidly
199. in a vague way; ""he looked vaguely familiar""; ""he explained it somewhat mistily""
A. dump
B. Swivel
C. Swig
D. vaguely
200. in an eagerly voracious manner; ""she reads voraciously""
A. voraciously
B. Platen
C. slink
D. Beady
ANSWERS
- (D) Aloof
- (A) Barely
- (B) Comically
- (D) Fitfully
- (B) Flawlessly
- (A) fondly
- (A) for a song
- (C) Foremost
- (C) forlornly
- (D) futilely
- (A) grimly
- (D) huffily
- (C) indifferently
- (C) Keenly
- (D) Meticulously
- (A) Portentously
- (D) rattling
- (C) reluctantly
- (D) Solemnly
- (C) Stiff
- (D) Stiffly
- (B) Tentatively
- (D) Timidly
- (D) vaguely
- (A) voraciously
- Aloof-->Adv-->in an aloof manner; ""the local gentry and professional classes had held aloof for the school had accepted their sons readily enough""
- Barely-->Adv-->by a small margin; ""they could barely hear the speaker""; ""we hardly knew them""; ""just missed being hit""; ""had scarcely rung the bel
- Comically-->Adv-->in a comical manner; ""she acted comically""
- Fitfully-->Adv-->in a fitful manner; ""he slept fitfully""
- Flawlessly-->Adv-->in an adroit manner; ""he bounced it cleanly off the wall""
- fondly-->Adv-->with fondness; with love; ""she spoke to her children fondly""
- for a song-->Adv-->for a relatively small amount of money; ""we bought the house for a song""
- Foremost-->Adv-->prominently forward; ""he put his best foot foremost""
- forlornly-->Adv-->in a forlorn manner; ""a single chicken was scratching forlornly in the yard""
- futilely-->Adv-->in a futile and unproductive manner
- grimly-->Adv-->in a grim implacable manner; ""he was grimly satisfied""
- huffily-->Adv-->in a huffy manner; ""`Don't bother to call me back,' he said huffily""
- indifferently-->Adv-->with indifference; in an indifferent manner; ""she shrugged indifferently""
- Keenly-->Adv-->in a keen and discriminating manner; ""he was keenly aware of his own shortcomings""
- Meticulously-->Adv-->in a meticulous manner; ""the set was meticulously authentic""
- Portentously-->Adv-->in a portentous manner; ""portentously, the engines began to roll""
- rattling-->Adv-->used as intensifiers; `real' is sometimes used informally for `really'; `rattling' is informal; ""she was very gifted""; ""he played very
- reluctantly-->Adv-->with reluctance
- Solemnly-->Adv-->in a grave and sedate manner; ""the judge sat there solemnly""
- Stiff-->Adv-->extremely; ""bored stiff""; ""frightened stiff""
- Stiffly-->Adv-->in a stiff manner; ""his hands lay stiffly""
- Tentatively-->Adv-->in a tentative manner; ""we agreed tentatively on a dinner date""
- Timidly-->Adv-->in a shy or timid or bashful manner; ""he smiled shyly""
- vaguely-->Adv-->in a vague way; ""he looked vaguely familiar""; ""he explained it somewhat mistily""
- voraciously-->Adv-->in an eagerly voracious manner; ""she reads voraciously""
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