Vocabulary 4 test
Directions: write the word
from the two choices that best completes the sentence.
1. Only by admitting your
fault and trying to make up for it can you obtain a(n)
(reprieve, access) from the pangs of
conscience.
2. Although the hero and the
heroine were parted by circumstance, I knew that they were (intrepid, fated) to meet again before
the last commercial.
3. Though the dangers and
uncertainties of a westward passage to the Orient cowed many a brave sailor,
they did not (rectify, daunt)
4. There is a vast difference
between democracy, under which everyone has duties and privileges, and (larceny, anarchy), under which no one
has.
5. The team of accountants
spent hours trying to locate and then to (rectify,
incinerate) the error I had so carelessly made.
6. Like farmers separating
the wheat from the chaff, the members of a jury must (disentangle, daunt) the truth from the evidence presented to them.
7. Spring, with its
ever-renewing promise of life, is for me the most (arduous, auspicious) of seasons.
8. I feared that this latest
misfortune would drive him over the (precipice,
access) and into a depression from which he would not recover.
9. Anyone who takes the
writings of other people and presents them as his or her own is guilty of
literary (larceny, anarchy).
10. Far from being useless,
mathematics will give you (reprieve,
access) to many fields of scientific study.
11. The voters may seem to be
easily deceived, but in the long run they cannot be (disentangled, hoodwinked) by self-serving politicians.
12. His narrow education gave
him a (biased, fated) view of
cultures different from his own .
13. His speech and manners
were so (auspicious, pompous) and
stiff that he cut a somewhat ridiculous figure at our informal little
get-together.
14. How can you accuse me of
(absconding, reviling) with all your
brilliant ideas when you have never had an original thought in your life!
15. Despite the threats made
against his life, the (arduous, intrepid)
district attorney was able to obtain a conviction of the corrupt official.
16. We should begin studying
foreign languages at an early age because it is during those years that our
minds are most (pliant, pompous) and
receptive.
17. For most retired
athletes, the comeback trail is an (arduous,
inanimate) one, and few ever get to the end of it.
18. Instead of recognizing
that he caused his own failure, he continues to (revile, hoodwink) all the people who were “unfair” to him.
19. A great playwright’s
characters always seem to come alive; those of a third-rate hack stubbornly
remain (pliant, inanimate).
20. When her eyes suddenly
blazed with such fury, I felt that the heat of her glance would all but (bias, incinerate) me.