Vocabulary Level F, unit 2

To bring about suddenly is to :

• modify

• stifle

• precipitate

• expostulate

Which of the following would you NOT use to describe an approach or setting in which rules are not strictly enforced?

• lax

• lenient

• permissive

• stringent

If you commemorate a period of one thousand years, you mark a:

• decade

• century

• bicentennial

• millennium

Someone who represents the height of fashion might be referred to as its:

• enemy

• epitome

• hiatus

• umbrage

She began by eliciting our impressions of advertising and then went on to address our negative opinions with great aplomb.

aplomb means:

• with a lack of self-confidence

• with great poise

• in a halting manner

• in a humorous manner

to drivel means:

• persuasion

• facts

• questions

• nonsense

Which of the following could NOT be used to replace bombastic?

• overblown

• pompous

• appropriate

• inflated

To exhort is to :

• urge strongly

• ask politely

• discourage strongly

• forbid

Infringe means:

• encroach

• improve

• embellish

• border

If commercials ingratiate themselves with viewers, the viewers find them:

• dull

• offensive

• agreeable

• instructive