Unit 6 Complete the Sentence

During the emergency, the mayor assumed _____ authority and did whatever was needed to provide essential services.

• abject

• inane

• moot

• plenary

Those who saw the young woman being assaulted and did nothing to help her were guilty of _____ in the crime.

• complicity

• indictment

• effigy

• abject

The _____ of her analysis not only clarified the nature of the problem but also suggested its most promising solution.

• perspicacity

• surveillence

• indubitable

• derelict

Though some writers have emphasized Jefferson's human weaknesses, his greatness is also a(n) ___ part of the historical record.

• indubitable

• moot

• inane

• abject

I would be ____ in my duty to you if I did not warn you against the pernicious effects of smoking cigarettes.

• derelict

• plenary

• testy

• sylvan

For years we carried on a(n) ______ correspondence, sometimes allowing months to pass before a letter was answered.

• intermittent

• indictment

• abject

• diatribe

How could a mere ___ in the teaching profession question the judgment of so experienced an educator?

• neophyte

• travesty

• derelict

• effigy

The fact that so many released prisoners return to a life of crime is in itself a terrifying ____ of our penal system.

• indictment

• plenary

• surveillance

• complicity

Throughout the period that the spy thought he had gone undetected, he was actually under close ____ by the CIA.

• surveillance

• motif

• perspicacity

• agnostic

Since the accused was never really given a chance to defend himself, his so-called trial was nothing but a(n) ____ of justice.

• effigy

• diatribe

• travesty

• sylvan