Vocabulary workshop A review

I advise you to take every ____________ necessary to prevent a household fire.

• ritual

• epic

• precaution

• data

Now that the two candidates have finished their long, hard campaigns, it is up to the voters to say which one will _______.

• dispatch

• prevail

• sabotage

• spoof

Many a perfectly healthy employee has been know to _________ illness to avoid going to work.

• predict

• sham

• retaliate

• pretend

each member of the basketball team was awarded a trophy to _________________ the championship season.

• commemorate

• transform

• tally

• seek

The young actor's ____________ rise to fame became legendary.

• periodic

• meteoric

• dogged

• amble

When the shocking news finally reached us, we were completely ______________.

• hilarious

• dumbfounded

• determined

• stunned

Her back injury was so severe that he has been placed in a cast and will have to remain __________ for months.

• martial

• innovated

• immobile

• jovial

Are you ________ enough to believe in everything you hear ?

• sinister

• boisterous

• talented

• gullible

Each of the items on the __________ for our meeting today will probably requires a geed deal of discussion.

• agenda

• carnality

• reimbubsement

• fridge benefits

I don't think democracy can ___________ in an atmosphere of racial and religious hatred.

• balk

• thrive

• sabotage

• resist