vocab 12
Terms
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- bewildered
- it __the history teacher that his students wer not interested in politics
- misinterpret v
- to understand incorrectly
- bewilderment
- when they realized they wer lost, the hikers exchanged looks of __
- bewilderment
- the crowd looked on in __when the referee called a foul
- amiss
- the police searched the room carefully, but foundn othing__
- amiss
- as he checked the gears of his bike, jaime knew that something was__
- miscalculation
- a__ in the recipe prrevented the bread from rising
- blunder
- when johnny reached home, he discovered that splashing through the mud with his new leather shoes was a silly__
- misinterpreted
- after lionel __ the wrod's definition, he proceeded to write a faulty sentence
- fallible
- because we are all__, it is important to admit when we have made mistakes
- fallibility
- the weather forecaster cheefully admitted his __ after being wrong several days in a row
- fluster
- lila did not let the arrival of unexpected guests__ her
- misinterpretation
- greg's __ of the map led him to take a wrong turn
- blundered
- caroline__ around her room in the dark until she found the lamp
- fallible
- all human beings are __; no one is perfect
- faux pas n
- a minor and embarrassing error
- misinterpret
- researches who__ their data will likely draw conclusions that are false
- fluster
- the teacher's question put the student in a __
- fluster
- people often __easily during job interviews
- predicament
- she found herself in a __ when she wanted to invite two friends who were not speaking to each other to the same party
- flustered
- jose was __ by all the attention he received after scoring the winning goal
- blundered
- after the fact, she recognized that she had __
- miscalculation
- the sailor's __ caused his boat to hit the rock beneath the shallow water
- flustered adj
- nervous and confused
- faux pas
- he made a __ by forgetting to introduce his mother to his friends
- blunder
- buying the worthless car was a __ that cost malcolm several thousand dollars
- miscalculation n
- an error in math or estimation
- faux pas
- anna commited a __ when she ate her salad with a dinner fork
- predicament
- he found himself in the __ of either putting up with his noisy neighbor or making an unfriendly call to the police
- erroneous
- the ads showed an__ start time for the play, so audience members arrived late
- fallibility
- political polls demonstrate their __when they incorrectly predict election results
- amiss
- the roller coaster accident was caused by controls that went __
- bewilderment n
- the state of being puzzled
- blunder n
- a careless mistake
- erroneous adj
- mistaken; wrong
- miscalculated
- the manager __ the demand for american flags, so the shop ran out of them several days before july 4 holiday
- bewildered
- the __looks on the faces of the concertgoers suggested that the shock after the lead singer was carried offstage by paramedics
- miscalculation
- the producer made a __ about the appeal of the new tv show
- erroneous
- __data cannot lead to sound conclusions
- erroneous
- there wer several __ conclusions in the detective's sloppy report
- misinterpretation
- statements that are unclear lend themselves to __
- flustered
- after he missed an easy shot, the basketball player became ___ and started to make even more mistakes
- faux pas
- he blushed when he realized he'd committed a __
- predicament
- the phrase "stuck between a rock and a hard place" describes a __
- amiss adj
- out of proper order; wrong
- predicament n
- a difficult situation
- fallible adj
- able to be wrong or mistaken
- amiss
- jake's mother knew that something was __ when he didn't come home from school on time
- miscalculated
- the teacher was embarrassed when she realized that she had __ the math problem