Vocabulary Unit 1
Final quiz:
Directions: On a separate sheet of paper, write
only the word from this unit that best completes the sentence.
1. admonish 6. cumbersome 11.
efface 16.
relinquish
2. breach 7.
deadlock 12.
muddle 17.
salvage
3. brigand 8.
debris 13. opinionated 18.
spasmodic
4. circumspect 9.
diffuse 14.
perennial 19.
spurious
5. commandeer 10.
dilemma 15.
predispose 20.
unbridled
- How can you expect to succeed at your new job
when you are (diffused, predisposed)
to believe that it is “not right” for you?
- An economy in which the marketplace is considered
“open” is one in which competition is more or less (muddled, unbridled.)
- My mother broke the (debris, deadlock) in the quarrel between my brother and me by
saying that neither of us could use the car.
- Thus, the nation was faced with a (dilemma, brigand) in which either
to advance or to retreat might endanger its vital interests.
- The senator refused to (efface, relinquish) the floor to any other speaker before he
had finished his statement.
- For the very reason that we are the most powerful nation in the
world, we must be extremely (circumspect,
opinionated) in our foreign policy.
- Developing nations in all parts of the world face
the (perennial, spurious)
problem of gaining a higher level of economic growth.
- The robber barons were a group of
nineteenth-century captains of industry who amassed wealth by means that a
(brigand, salvager) might use.
- Instead of trying to (admonish, commandeer) the support of the student body, we must
earn it by showing our sincerity and ability.
- Our city government seems to have (breached, muddled) into a
first-rate financial crisis.
- The evidence intended to show that some races or
nationalities are superior to others proved to be completely (spurious, cumbersome).
- If only I could (predispose, efface) the memory of the look of shock and
disappointment on my mother’s face.
- Like the rings a pebble makes in a pool of water,
the good feelings generated by the speech (diffused, relinquished) through the crowd.
- Even her refusal to dance with him did not seem
to make a (deadlock, breach) in
his gigantic conceit.
- The organization of some government agencies is
so (cumbersome, perennial) that
it is all but impossible to know who is responsible for various
activities.
- The dean (effaced,
admonished) the members of the team for neglecting their homework
assignments.
- After the fire, investigators searched through
the (debris, dilemma) for clues
that might reveal the cause.
- Since she is so convinced that there is only one
right way – her way – I find her too (circumspect,
opinionated) for my liking.
- Is it too much to expect that I will be able to (commandeer, salvage) a few shreds,
of self-respect from my humiliating failure?
- His attempts to rid his administration of
inefficiency were so (unbridled,
spasmodic) that he came to be called the “reformer by fits and
starts.”