ECPE Vocabulary Quiz

In the ___ of the drought there were crop failures and the country now faces famine.

• wake

• series

• repercussion

• stride

Plans to build a new elementary school are ___.

• elevated

• interlocking

• fortified

• underway

He got the job even though his skills were ___ to those of the other applicants.

• insignificant

• inferior

• indifferent

• imperfect

Economic growth will continue to be slow for the ___ future.

• plausible

• foreseeable

• conceivable

• consecutive

The thought of snakes and spiders ___ him

• decomposed

• despised

• detached

• disgusted

Vacation policies continue to be a source of ___ between management and the workers.

• disturbance

• resistance

• contraction

• friction

The drop in profits can be ___ to the rising cost of raw materials.

• excused

• deduced

• derived

• attributed

You can definitely ___ Sarah to get the job done.

• look at

• count on

• figure out

• regard to

When choosing the new chairperson, ___ that the past three have all come from the accounting department.

• see to it

• look out for

• keep in mind

• ask around

After sleeping in the car his suit was badly ___.

• cropped

• wrinkled

• withered

• creased