Vocabulary Practice

complacent	disperse	arresting
pertain	mural	plausible

1.       Words strung together without punctuation recall those murky ______ Rolf Harris used to paint, where you kept tilting your head and wondering what it was.

2.       But we should not be _____ even on behalf of the robust and unambiguous full stop.

3.       There is increasing evidence to suggest that languages widely _____ geographically may be more closely related than once thought.

4.       This is most ______ demonstrated by the three language families of the New World: Eskimo- Aleut, Amerind, and Na-Dene.

5.       No one has come up with a remotely ______ explanation of how a language spoken only in a remote corner of the Pyrenees could have come to influence Indian languages of the New World, but the links between many cognates are too numerous to explain in terms of simple coincidence.

6.       In English we have a large number of sp- words ______ to wetness: spray, splash, spit, sprinkle, splatter, spatter, spill, spigot.