Vocabulary Review: Sentence Composition 2

1.    extraneous
Attack the topic directly and avoid extraneous words and ideas.

2.    cloying/saccharine
Her cloying/saccharine smile disgusted all men present.

3.    upbraid
The prime minister was heavily upbraided for opening the border to refugees.

4.    prohibitive
Prohibitive housing prices scared off college graduate who had planned to landa job in first-tier cities.

5.    brisk
Her brisk tone of speaking disqualified her for teaching.

6.    obloquy
commuting bus crammed with old aunties sputtering obloquies

7.    commingle
a microcosm commingled with rare animals and plants

8.    bedizen
the famous Bayeux Tapestry bedizened with English history

9.    turgid
Plain but to-the-point explanations work better than turgid yet extraneouscomments.

10. humorv.
No humoring could pacify the sullen boy.