Alienate To Apathy

Question 1

Alienate

Answer 1

1. Teachers will alienate their students if they talk down to them. 🔉
2. By highlighting his pro-abortion views during his speech, the politician managed to alienate his Christian supporters. 🔉
3. The restaurant owner hesitates to change his menu because he does not want to alienate his regular customers. 🔉
4. If the president does not agree to the prime minister’s terms, he will alienate one of the nation’s strongest allies. 🔉
5. Ever controlling Janet started to alienate her son when he married a woman she despised. 🔉

Question 2

Alleviate

Answer 2

1. Take an aspirin to alleviate your headache. 🔉
2. To alleviate hunger in our town, each employee of our company donated five cans of food. 🔉
3. If you want to alleviate the situation, start by apologizing for your mistake. 🔉
4. Scared of heights all her life, nothing would alleviate Ruth’s fear of flying. 🔉
5. One local factory will alleviate the town’s job shortage by providing 250 more jobs. 🔉
6. Drink plenty of water to alleviate dehydration. 🔉
7. Visit your distant mother once in a while to alleviate your relationship with her. 🔉
8. Listening to soothing music will not only alleviate stress, but it will help you connect to your inner peace. 🔉
9. Additional interstate lanes will alleviate traffic congestion. 🔉
10. Finding the lost boy alive would alleviate many concerns in the community. 🔉

Question 3

Ambiguous

Answer 3

1. Ambiguous classroom rules like ‘Be responsible.’ deprive students of what the rule specifically requires. 🔉
2. I wish my professor’s instructions were less ambiguous so that I could better understand them. 🔉
3. With an ambiguous plot, no one could understand the film’s premise. 🔉
4. Because his driving directions are ambiguous, I use my reliable map. 🔉
5. The disaster preparedness plans are ambiguous, and it remains unclear how they will be applied in a crisis. 🔉
6. Partly cloudy with a chance of rain makes for an ambiguous weather forecast. 🔉
7. If your question was less ambiguous, I could better answer it. 🔉
8. Ambiguous in meaning, the thumbs up gesture is considered a sign of approval in America while it is viewed as an obscene act in Iraq. 🔉
9. It is impossible to assemble a bed frame with ambiguous instructions. 🔉
10. Based on your ambiguous look, I cannot tell if you found my joke funny or offensive. 🔉

Question 4

Ambivalent

Answer 4

1. When it comes to the election, I am ambivalent about the candidates. 🔉
2. I am ambivalent as to whether or not I want to take the medicine because of the drug’s known side effects. 🔉
3. Because he was nervous about performing in front of a crowd, Jed was ambivalent about entering the singing competition. 🔉
4. After five days, the jury is still ambivalent about the defendant’s guilt. 🔉
5. Since the employees value their paychecks, they are ambivalent on the idea of a strike. 🔉
6. Congress has reached a stalemate because many of the politicians are ambivalent about passing a bill to raise taxes. 🔉
7. Despite a number of research studies, the federal government remains ambivalent on the subject of legalizing marijuana. 🔉
8. When it was time to choose her major, Janet realized she was ambivalent about two career fields. 🔉
9. Because my husband and I are usually ambivalent about our movie choices, we rarely enter the theater before the film starts. 🔉
10. Even though Thomas has proposed to his girlfriend, he is ambivalent about going through with the ceremony

Question 5

Anarchy

Answer 5

1. As soon as the teacher stepped in the hall, the classroom descended into anarchy. 🔉
2. One of the responsibilities of the police is to preserve order so that anarchy will not come into play. 🔉
3. When the president was assassinated, the vice-president was immediately sworn into office to fill the void and prevent anarchy. 🔉
4. The civil rights leader was arrested on a charge of inciting anarchy because he encouraged others to rise against the authority of the status quo. 🔉
5. Since the king gave up his throne without naming a successor, order has replaced anarchy in the once peaceful kingdom. 🔉
6. There must always be a leader or else anarchy will prevail. 🔉
7. Because the guards do not always enforce the rules, they have allowed anarchy to thrive inside of the prison. 🔉
8. Even the police are afraid to walk in the underbelly of the city where anarchy rules. 🔉
9. The young hikers fell into a state of anarchy when their guide went missing. 🔉
10. When the dictator was overthrown, the small nation tumbled into anarchy. 🔉

Question 6

Anoint

Answer 6

1. Using holy oil, the pastor placed his hands on the woman’s head in order to anoint her. 🔉
2. A ceremonial process using oil and water was used to anoint the congregation’s newest priest. 🔉
3. Because he did not meet the requirements for religious service, the clergymen decided not to anoint the monk with holy oil religiously. 🔉

Question 7

Anomaly

Answer 7

1. In order to find the anomaly, scientists had to repeat the experiment over a hundred times. 🔉
2. None of the astronauts were able to explain the anomaly they observed in space. 🔉
3. Since my son has a history of failing classes, his good grades are a welcome anomaly. 🔉
4. Because the point falls outside of the normal range on the graph, it is considered to be an anomaly. 🔉
5. Although the anomaly appeared in the sky thirty days ago, no one is certain when it will appear again. 🔉
6. The genetic anomaly caused the mouse to have three legs instead of four. 🔉
7. If the scanner is not functioning properly, it might miss an anomaly someone might attempt to bring onboard the airplane. 🔉
8. The software engineer was unable to fix the program’s anomaly because its appearance was random. 🔉
9. It was quite an anomaly when the temperature reached 101 degrees in December in Michigan. 🔉
10. When the people looked at the picture of the anomaly in the water, they believed they were looking at a monster. 🔉

Question 8

Antagonise

Answer 8

1. If you antagonize the dog, he will bite you. 🔉
2. The man made a huge mistake when he decided to antagonize the bees in his yard. 🔉
3. By agreeing with the remarks of the pro-abortion group, the politician seems to be going out of his way to antagonize Christian voters. 🔉
4. Since John was already irritated, his wife knew it would not take much to antagonize him. 🔉
5. The boy believes he will antagonize his religious father if he tells him he’s gay. 🔉

Question 9

Apathy

Answer 9

1. Because of voter apathy, there is a very short line at the polls today. 🔉
2. The serial killer’s lack of apathy left even the judge speechless. 🔉
3. The best way to cure apathy in schools is by inspiring students. 🔉
4. When apathy takes over the workplace, very little work gets done because people become uninterested in their jobs. 🔉
5. Constance’s apathy made her unwilling to participate in social activities with her friends. 🔉
6. While the salesmen have a good product, they are letting their apathy prevent them from getting customer sales. 🔉
7. Because consumer apathy is so great in the real estate market, the housing industry is under distress. 🔉
8. A large portion of dealing with peer pressure involves ignoring the apathy of your peers. 🔉
9. If parents do not take steps to deal with their children’s apathy towards education, many young people will not attend college. 🔉
10. My mother’s love for my abusive father has been replaced by apathy. 🔉

Question 10

Analogous

Answer 10

1. Because my teacher is analogous to my mother, I have accidentally called her, “mom.” 🔉
2. We couldn’t decide between the two tiles because they were analogous to one another. 🔉
3. All of my boyfriends have been analogous to each other because I only date men with red hair. 🔉
4. Since we wanted to vacation someplace warm, we considered places that were analogous because they were in the Caribbean. 🔉
5. All of the actors reading for the role were analogous to each other in appearance. 🔉