ForresterMasterVocabAlphabeticalOrderCONV0008

 

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


  1. (D) Aloof
  2. (A) Barely
  3. (B) Comically
  4. (D) Fitfully
  5. (B) Flawlessly
  6. (A) fondly
  7. (A) for a song
  8. (C) Foremost
  9. (C) forlornly
  10. (D) futilely
  11. (A) grimly
  12. (D) huffily
  13. (C) indifferently
  14. (C) Keenly
  15. (D) Meticulously
  16. (A) Portentously
  17. (D) rattling
  18. (C) reluctantly
  19. (D) Solemnly
  20. (C) Stiff
  21. (D) Stiffly
  22. (B) Tentatively
  23. (D) Timidly
  24. (D) vaguely
  25. (A) voraciously
  26. Aloof-->Adv-->in an aloof manner; ""the local gentry and professional classes had held aloof for the school had accepted their sons readily enough""
  27. 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
  28. Comically-->Adv-->in a comical manner; ""she acted comically""
  29. Fitfully-->Adv-->in a fitful manner; ""he slept fitfully""
  30. Flawlessly-->Adv-->in an adroit manner; ""he bounced it cleanly off the wall""
  31. fondly-->Adv-->with fondness; with love; ""she spoke to her children fondly""
  32. for a song-->Adv-->for a relatively small amount of money; ""we bought the house for a song""
  33. Foremost-->Adv-->prominently forward; ""he put his best foot foremost""
  34. forlornly-->Adv-->in a forlorn manner; ""a single chicken was scratching forlornly in the yard""
  35. futilely-->Adv-->in a futile and unproductive manner
  36. grimly-->Adv-->in a grim implacable manner; ""he was grimly satisfied""
  37. huffily-->Adv-->in a huffy manner; ""`Don't bother to call me back,' he said huffily""
  38. indifferently-->Adv-->with indifference; in an indifferent manner; ""she shrugged indifferently""
  39. Keenly-->Adv-->in a keen and discriminating manner; ""he was keenly aware of his own shortcomings""
  40. Meticulously-->Adv-->in a meticulous manner; ""the set was meticulously authentic""
  41. Portentously-->Adv-->in a portentous manner; ""portentously, the engines began to roll""
  42. rattling-->Adv-->used as intensifiers; `real' is sometimes used informally for `really'; `rattling' is informal; ""she was very gifted""; ""he played very
  43. reluctantly-->Adv-->with reluctance
  44. Solemnly-->Adv-->in a grave and sedate manner; ""the judge sat there solemnly""
  45. Stiff-->Adv-->extremely; ""bored stiff""; ""frightened stiff""
  46. Stiffly-->Adv-->in a stiff manner; ""his hands lay stiffly""
  47. Tentatively-->Adv-->in a tentative manner; ""we agreed tentatively on a dinner date""
  48. Timidly-->Adv-->in a shy or timid or bashful manner; ""he smiled shyly""
  49. vaguely-->Adv-->in a vague way; ""he looked vaguely familiar""; ""he explained it somewhat mistily""
  50. voraciously-->Adv-->in an eagerly voracious manner; ""she reads voraciously""

 

 

PROFESSOR STEVEN DONAHUE MIAMI DADE COLLEGE