Level F - Unit 2 - Choosing the Right Word

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

• ameliorated

• surmised

• permeated

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.

• precipitated

• inveighed

• ameliorated

This famous definition by a British general _____ the nature of war: "Long periods of intense boredom punctuated by short periods of intense fear."

• epitomizes

• permeates

• infringes

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

• exhortation

• aplomb

• callow

After the speaker had droned on pointlessly for half an hour, an angry man in the front row stood up and said, "Must we continue to listen to all this childish _____.

• drivel

• lassitude

• stringent

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

• permeated

• ameliorated

• precipitated

She handled a potentially embarrassing situation with cool _____.

• aplomb

• drivel

• bombastic

His messages may seen _____, but there is a solid framework of practical ideas underlying the rather pompous language.

• bombastic

• callow

• occult

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

• surmised

• inveighed

• ingratiated

"I'm sure your every wish will be granted," I assured the demanding child, my tongue firmly in my check, "when and if the _____ ever comes!"

• millenium

• exhortation

• ex officio