Vocabulary in Context 2

Vocabulary in Context

part 2

difficult word

context clues

Multiple Choice

In a government election, the incumbent generally has a strong advantage over a newcomer. A person who is already in office and thus has a certain degree of prominence has a better chance of being elected than does someone who is unknown to the electorate.

• a special type of election

• a political party

• a beneficial comment

• a current office-holder

Multiple Choice

In a government election, the incumbent generally has a strong advantage over a newcomer. A person who is already in office and thus has a certain degree of prominence has a better chance of being elected than does someone who is unknown to the electorate.

• Fame

• Timeliness

• Youthfulness

• Novelty

simple word

context clues

Multiple Choice

Faced with serious threats to its future, the company is taking steps to improve its outlook. The company has brought in a new crop of trainees to staff some of its empty positions.

• stairs

• walks

• footsteps

• actions

Multiple Choice

Faced with serious threats to its future, the company is taking steps to improve its outlook. The company has brought in a new crop of trainees to staff some of its empty positions.

Look at the word crop in the passage. This word could best be replaced by

• group

• produce

• situation

• plantation

word part

what you do

• port = carry [porter]

• mute = change [commute]

• ven = come [intervene]

• etc.

Multiple Choice

keenly alive and brisk

• avert

• exceed

• vivacious

• credo

Multiple Choice

write hastily and messily

• graphology

• scribble

• dictate

• rupture

Multiple Choice

person who is sent to deliver a message

• porter

• emissary

• subsidiary

• visionary

where and when

• pre | ante | fore = before [previous, foretell]

• post = after [postpone]

• cir = aroun [circulate]

Multiple Choice

relative who came before you

• postern

• forefather

• subordinate

• benefactor

Multiple Choice

occuring before the expected time.

• expel

• transgress

• premature

• finale

universe and body

Multiple Choice

false teeth

• corpulent

• denture

• podiatry

• dermatitis

Multiple Choice

a series of raised levels of earth

• geocentric

• hydraulic

• terrace

• capstone

human states

Multiple Choice

in love

• pathetic

• malign

• enamored

• euphoric

Multiple Choice

wanting to do good to other

• bibliophile

• kleptomania

• dyslexia

• benevolent

Opposites and Number

• immature | unarmed | illiterate | irregular

• solo | bicycle | octopus | decade | century | million

Multiple Choice

If you __________ something, you move around it to avoid it.

• prevent

• reverse

• circumvent

• disinter

Multiple Choice

someone who lives outside of his or her own country is a(n) __________

• mortician

• benefactor

• expatriate

• manicurist

Multiple Choice

if you _____ a message, you send it from one place to another.

• prevent

• exhale

• transmit

• minimize

Multiple Choice

A friend who is ______ always insists on controlling every solution.

• apathetic

• abrupt

• morbid

• domineering

Multiple Choice

If you are believable, you have ________.

• vitality

• credibility

• amity

• duplicity

Multiple Choice

Someone who acts with ________ makes up his or her mind before the facts are known.

• prejudice

• dyspepsia

• circumlocution

• solitude