Vocabulary 12 test
Directions: select the word
that best completes the sentence.
1. Many novels about football
players or boxers are written in a style as (brawny, venomous) as the athletes they portray.
2. Is
it (irreverent, appreciable) of me
to suggest that the “great man” may not be as great as he thinks he is?
3. We Americans believe that
a government can be strong, resourceful, and efficient without being (wily, autocratic).
4. Computer-generated
synthesizers that produce (humane,
synthetic) speech enable individuals with Lou Gehrig’s disease (ALS) to
communicate.
5. As a public official, I
have learned to expect criticism of my ideas, but not (venomous, temperate) attacks on my character.
6. It’s unusual to have an
election in which two siblings (maltreat,
contend) for the same office.
7. All the nations of the
world must join in a(n) (concerted, irreverent) attack on ignorance, poverty, and disease.
8. In a country as rich as
ours, it is simply (illustrious,
intolerable) that so many people live below the poverty level.
9. when
the suspect (pondered, blanched) at
the sudden accusation, her bloodless countenance as much as proclaimed her
guilt.
10. He has the reputation of
being a (laborious, wily) coach who
can work with less experienced players and win.
11. Even those of us not
philosophically inclined occasionally like me to (contend, ponder) the meaning of life.
12. In days gone by, a
dollar, was a(n) (concerted,
appreciable) sum, and was not to be spent lightly.
13. After months of counting
calories, I learned to be (temperate,
lithe) in eating.
14. Advocates of American
independence were regarded by
15. Some people criticized
the judge as being “too lenient,” but I thought she was simply being (autocratic, humane).
16. After completing the
textbook, the writer faced the (laborious,
brawny) job of compiling the index.
17. To a skeptic, who doubts
everything, the absolute belief in anything is (blasphemy, synthetic).
18. the
official policy of the school is neither to pamper students nor to (blanch, maltreat) them.
19. Is there any other
creature in the entire world that is as graceful and (subversive, lithe) as the common house cat?
20. Isn’t it amazing how the
Adams family of