Vocabulary Practice

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2. The audience expressed _______ by applauding. • flickered • ravine • vastness • enthusiasm

3. Correct enthusiasm – noun – eager and lively interest

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5. The candles _____ in the breeze. • horizon • suspended • flickered • presence

6. Correct flickered – verb – shone or burned with an unsteady or wavering light

7. We watched as the ship seemed to disappear into the ________. • horizon • vastness • enthusiasm • swerved

8. Correct horizon – noun – the line where the sky and the earth or sea seem to meet

9. I could sense my mother’s _____ even before I saw her. • presence • flickered • ravine • vastness

10. Correct presence – noun – something felt to be present in a specific place at a given time

11. As you walk along the edge of the road, be careful not to fall into the _______. • suspended • ravine • presence • flickered

12. Correct ravine – noun – a deep, narrow valley, especially one worn by running water

13. The spider was ________ from the roof by a strand of web. • suspended • enthusiasm • swerved • horizon

14. Correct suspended – verb – held in place as if attached from above

15. The car _______ to miss the dog crossing the road. • swerved • horizon • suspended • presence

16. Correct swerved – verb – turned aside suddenly

17. The ________ of the desert made it seem to stretch for miles. • ravine • vastness • enthusiasm • swerved

18. Correct vastness – noun – greatness in size, extent, or number

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