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Subjects
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english
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grammar
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Someone mute cannot talk; someone _____ can hardly stop talking.
dismiss
expedient
impeccable
verbose
2. In the film Funny Face - the bookish heroine _____ fashion models for their lack of intellectual interests.
disdain
affirmation
preclude
eclectic
3. A born storyteller - my father loved to _____ anecdotes about his early years in New York.
recount
coercion
extricate
prevalent
4. Because Webster's dictionary had grown so large and unwieldy - the publishers decided to _____ it and bring out a condensed version.
abridge
aesthetic
disdain
placate
5. Rejecting the candidate's _____ comments on tax reform - the reporter pressed him to state clearly where he stood on the issue.
pervasive
interpid
presumptuous
equivocal
6. Youth's beauty is _____; it quickly fades with age.
impair
specious
transient
emulate
7. When Amanda said to the ticket scalper - 'One hundred bucks? What do you want - a pound of flesh?' she was making an _____ to Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.
debilitate
prudent
allusion
fervor
8. Although defeat appeared inevitable - the general was _____ in his refusal to surrender.
retract
obdurate
quandary
compliance
9. In Tibet today - the common people still _____ their traditional spiritual leader - the Dalai Lama.
eulogy
venerate
mollify
equivocal
10. Although you can still hear _____ outbursts of laughter and signing outside - the Halloween parade has passed; the party is over till next year.
resigned
fallacious
sporadic
innate
11. A doting mother - Emma was more likely to praise her son's childish finger paintings than to _____ them.
discerning
homogeneous
disparage
furtive
12. A miser hoards money - not because he is _____ - but because he is stingy.
embellish
exemplary
volatile
prudent
13. When Elizabeth realized that Darcy considered himself too good to dance with his inferiors - she took great offense at his _____.
affirmation
garrulous
haughtiness
explicit
14. We could tell we were in serious trouble from the _____ of the principal's expression.
adversary
transient
gravity
advocate
15. No wonder Ted doesn't think straight! His mind is so cluttered with _____ information that he can't concentrate on the essentials.
resigned
terse
extraneous
levity
16. Uncertain which suitor she ought to accept - the princess _____ - first favoring one and then the other.
quandary
vacillate
scrupulous
repudiate
17. When you place a phone call from an airplane - _____ is essential; you are charged for every minute.
brevity
incongruous
coercion
reticent
18. Because the student body at their daughter's prep school was so _____ - they decided to send her to a school that offered greater cultural diversity.
homogeneous
arbitrary
zealot
guile
19. I am a _____ about the proposed new health plan; I want some proof that it will work.
impair
interpid
adversary
skeptic
20. 'Judicial activism' is the alleged tendency of some judges to _____ the power of elected legislatures by making the law rather than merely interpreting it.
criterion
redundant
usurp
substantiate
21. The architect realized that her design for the new school had to be in _____ with the local building code.
lavish
compliance
profane
equivocal
22. Flat prose and flat ginger are equally _____; both lack sparkle.
autonomous
insipid
nurture
rancor
23. The young wrestler struggled to defeat his formidable _____.
autonomous
embellish
adversary
abridge
24. Typically - partygoers are _____; hermits are not.
heresy
gregarious
debunk
adversary
25. Because solar energy has the power to reduce greenhouse gases and increase energy efficiency - conversion to the use of solar energy may help _____ the threat of global warming.
endorse
allusion
mitigate
guile
26. There's no point to what you're saying. Why are you bothering to make such _____ remarks?
innocuous
inane
incongruous
alleviate
27. Despite Tom's _____ of innocence - Aunt Polly suspected he had eaten the pie.
preclude
notoriety
affirmation
transient
28. Josh is such a greedy _____ that - as soon as the earthquake struck - he tripled the price of bottled water at his store.
placate
opportunist
mundane
succinct
29. The inquisitors used both physical and psychological _____ to force Joan of Arc to deny that her visions were sent by God.
notoriety
coercion
metaphor
resolution
30. As far as I'm concerned - Apple's claims about its new computer are pure _____; no machine is that good!
hyperbole
ephemeral
opportunist
criterion
31. The doctor assured the boy's parents that his fever would eventually _____.
subside
arbitrary
resolution
impeccable
32. The coming trip to France should provide a _____ test of the value of my conversational French class.
advocate
placate
pragmatic
constraint
33. It is _____ that his success came when he least wanted it.
partisan
conciliatory
ironic
lethargic
34. Through the comments of the characters in his cartoon strip - Doonesbury - Gary Trudeau ridicules political corruption; his humor is _____ in nature.
pervasive
satirical
scrupulous
placate
35. His coarse - hard-bitten exterior _____ his inner sensitivity.
adulation
subside
mitigate
belie
36. Nothing could shake his _____ that his children would get the best education that money could buy.
resolution
surpass
derivative
rebuttal
37. Tina was still angry despite Tony's soft and _____ words.
relegate
exacerbate
dismiss
conciliatory
38. The president _____ the astronauts - whom he called 'the pioneers of the Space Age.'
hierarchy
hyperbole
extol
preclude
39. Times of economic hardship inevitably encourage the _____ of countless get-rich-quick schemes.
substantiate
endorse
proliferation
insipid
40. Although some girls were attracted by Mark's air of _____ - Judy was put off by it - for she felt his aloofness indicated a lack of openness.
strident
reserve
cryptic
acclaim
41. Although the University of California at Berkeley is just one part of the state university system - in many ways - Cal Berkeley is _____ - for it runs several programs that are not subject to state control.
autonomous
soporific
expedient
hypothetical
42. You can _____ your chances of being admitted to the college of your choice by learning to write well.
enhance
endorse
gravity
quandary
43. Drinking alcohol can _____ your ability to drive safely; if you're going to drink - don't drive.
recount
meticulous
impair
levity
44. There is a fine line between speech that is _____ and to the point and speech so abrupt that it verges on rudeness.
gravity
ironic
terse
extraneous
45. After Ralph dropped his second try of drinks that week - the manager swiftly _____ him to a minor post behind the bar.
relegate
proximity
rebuttal
implement
46. When you send a message on Twitter - be _____; a tweet cannot be more than 140 characters long.
concise
laconic
reserve
terse
47. Tourists are urged not to _____ the sanctity of holy places by wearing immodest garb.
divergent
inane
aesthetic
profane
48. Denying that she advocated total _____ - Katya maintained she wished only to change our government - not to destroy it utterly.
anarchy
dismiss
inane
incorrigible
49. Although Georgia O'Keeffe painted subjects over the years - she had a definite _____ for painting flowers.
endorse
usurp
conciliatory
predilection
50. The Head Start program attempts to _____ prekindergarten children so that they will do well when they enter elementary school.
immutable
inane
scrutiny
nurture