Sadlier Oxford Level F Unit 2

I trust that we will have the will to improve what can now be improved and the patience to bear what cannot now be _______________________.

• permeated

• ameliorated

• surmised

• infringed

When the bridge suddenly collapsed in the high winds, the people on it at the time were ___________________ to their deaths in the watery abyss below.

• inveighed

• epitomized

• ameliorated

• precipitated

"Long periods of intense boredom punctuated by short periods of intense fear" - in this famous definition a British general __________________ the nature of war.

• epitomized

• infringed

• precipitated

• ingratiated

We are all ready and willing to do what must be done; what we need is leadership - not ________________________.

• aplomb

• precipitation

• exhortation

• lassitude

Must we continue to listen to all this childish _____________?

• lassitude

• bombast

• drivel

• epitome

A sour odor of decay, stale air, and generations of living _______________________ every corner of the old tenement.

• infringed

• permeated

• ameliorated

• surmised

She handled a potentially embarrassing situation with cool _________________.

• occult

• lassitude

• aplomb

• bombast

His message may seem ______________________, but there is a solid framework of practical ideas underlying the rather pompous language.

• callow

• intrinsic

• occult

• bombastic

In this situation we cannot act on the basis of what may be ________________, but only in accordance with what is definitely known.

• inveighed

• surmised

• exhorted

• precipitated

In 1999 an argument raged over whether 2000 or 2001 would mark the beginning of the new ___________________.

• occult

• ex officio

• epitome

• millennium