13. After sitting in the sink for several days, the dirty, food-encrusted dishes became ______.

• a. malodorous

• b. prevalent

• c. imposing

• d. perforated

• e. emphatic

14. Giulia soon discovered the source of the ______ smell in the room: a week-old tuna sandwich that one of the children had hidden in the closet.

• a. quaint

• b. fastidious

• c. clandestine

• d. laconic

• e. fetid

15. After making ______ remarks to the President, the reporter was not invited to return to the White House pressroom.

• a. hospitable

• b. itinerant

• c. enterprising

• d. chivalrous

• e. irreverent

16. With her ______ eyesight, Krystyna spotted a trio of deer on the hillside and she reduced the speed of her car.

• a. inferior

• b. keen

• c. impressionable

• d. ductile

• e. conspiratorial

17. With a(n) ______ grin, the boy quickly slipped the candy into his pocket without his mother’s knowledge.

• a. jaundiced

• b. nefarious

• c. stereotypical

• d. sentimental

• e. impartial

18. Her ______ display of tears at work did not impress her new boss, who felt she should try to control her emotions.

• a. maudlin

• b. meritorious

• c. precarious

• d. plausible

• e. schematic

19. Johan argued, “If you know about a crime but don’t report it, you are ______ in that crime because you allowed it to happen.”

• a. acquitted

• b. steadfast

• c. tenuous

• d. complicit

• e. nullified

20. The authorities, fearing a ______ of their power, called for a military state in the hopes of restoring order.

• a. subversion

• b. premonition

• c. predilection

• d. infusion

• e. inversion

21. The story’s bitter antagonist felt such great ______ for all of the other characters that as a result, his life was very lonely and he died alone.

• a. insurgence

• b. malevolence

• c. reciprocation

• d. declamation

• e. preference

22. It is difficult to believe that charging 20% on an outstanding credit card balance isn’t ______!

• a. bankruptcy

• b. usury

• c. novice

• d. kleptomania

• e. flagrancy