Level F - Unit 1 - Completing the Sentence

I certainly appreciate your praise, but I must say that I can see nothing so remarkably _____ in having done what any decent person would do.

• meritorious

• petulant

• hackneyed

• coalition

Since I don't like people who play favorites in the office, I have frequently _____ against such behavior with my superiors.

• expostulated

• simulated

• interceded

• elicited

Various insects have a marvelous capacity to protect themselves by _____ the appearance of twigs and other objects in their environment.

• simulating

• expostulating

• transcending

• interceding

In the question-and-answer session, we tried to _____ from the candidates some definite indication of how they proposed to reduce the national debt.

• elicit

• umbrage

• lurid

• jaded

I feel that, as an old friend, I have the _____ of criticizing your actions without arousing resentment.

• prerogative

• hiatus

• innuendo

• unctuous

It will be hard to win a congressional seat if you do not have a ________ of people standing behind you.

• coalition

• assuage

• provincial

• unctuous

Although we tried to express our sympathy, we knew that mere words could do nothing to _____ her grief.

• assuage

• lurid

• meritorious

• simulate

Their tastes have been so _____ by luxurious living that they seem incapable of enjoying the simple pleasures of life.

• jaded

• expostulated

• hiatus

• interceded

Of course you have a right to ask the waiter for a glass of water, but is there any need to use the _____ tone of a spoiled child?

• petulant

• hackneyed

• simulating

• unctuous

His confidence grew as he received clear signs of the _____ of his superiors.

• approbation

• innuendo

• meritorious

• petulant