voc. test 4

The team of accountants spent hours trying to locate and then to () the error I had so carelessly made.

• rectify

• incinerate

We should begin studying foreign languages at an early age because it is during those years that our minds are most () and receptive.

• pliant

• fated

I feared that this latest misfortune would drive him over the () and into a depression from which he would not recover.

• precipice

• access

Instead of recognizing that he caused his own failure, he continues to () all the people who were "unfair" to him.

• revile

• hoodwink

Anyone who takes the writings of other people and presents them as his or her own is guilty of literary ().

• anarchy

• larceny

When her eyes suddenly blazed with such fury, I felt that the heat of her glance would all but () me

• bias

• incinerate

Only by admitting your fault and trying to make up for it can you obtain a (n) () from the pangs of conscience.

• access

• reprieve

Despite the threats made against his life, the () district attorney was able to obtain a conviction of the corrupt officials.

• arduous

• intrepid

Although the hero and the heroine were parted by circumstance, I knew that they were () to meet again before the last commercial.

• intrepid

• fated

Like farmers separating the wheat from the chaff, the members of the jury must () the truth from the evidence presented to them.

• disentangle

• daunt