sentence completion

The airplane manufacturer realized a flaw in its design when tests revealed that the cabin door required too much force to be opened in an emergency: for safety purposes, the door needs to be difficult to open but not ______.

• indelible

• immutable

• immobile

• impossible

2. When the headlights shone on the raccoon that was foraging in the trash, the alarmed critter ______ away.

• pilfered

• scurried

• dawdled

• sauntered

The three-legged race is ______ teambuilding activity: when two people are ______ together, they must communicate effectively in order to move forward.

• a superb ... weaned

• an excellent ... yoked

• an obvious ... waffled

• an ineffective ... cuffed

Many voters were turned off by the mayoral candidate’s reliance on ______; he seemed unable to answer a question in a straightforward, non-evasive manner.

• circumlocution

• eloquence

• terseness

• animosity

Due to a conflict of interest, the judge was forced to ______ herself from hearing the case and ______ from voting in the decision.

• remove ... pander

• quell ... forgo

• recuse ... abstain

• indulge ... decline

Because of rumors that the ship’s passengers were sick with a terrible plague, the port ______ the ship and refused to let it dock.

• begrudged

• nurtured

• purported

• quarantined