Unit 6 Review (for Points)

A favorite ploy of the __________________ is to appoint a convenient scapegoat upon whom a misguided populace can vent its anger.

• anomalous

• demagogue

• sinecure

• megalomania

The institutions of our society, far from being ________________, are in the process of change at this very moment.

• aspersion

• anomalous

• immutable

• brusque

By casting __________________ on the ability and character of others, you reveal the misgivings you have about yourself.

• aspersions

• transgress

• insurgents

• ennui

The task of education, said the speaker, is to ______________ the primitive selfishness of the child into socially useful modes of behavior.

• transgress

• transmute

• disabuse

• fetter

Although she is well into middle age, my aunt Sally seems unable to ________________ herself of the idea that she is still a teenager.

• disabuse

• contrive

• cajole

• castigate

Although her new position bore a high-sounding title, it was really little more than a(n) _________________.

• insurgent

• ennui

• megalomania

• sinecure

What hurt my feelings was not so much his refusal to give me a job as the ________________ way in which he told me that he had nothing for me.

• bizarre

• vicarious

• anomalous

• brusque

Can you imagine anything as ____________________ as a successful drama coach who has never acted on the stage!

• surreptitious

• vicarious

• anomalous

• heinous

With the innumerable activities open to a young person like you, I can't understand why you should suffer from ________________.

• ennui

• fetter

• sinecure

• aspersion

I cannot understand how she was able to __________ a meeting between two people who had refused to have anything to do with each other.

• disabuse

• contrive

• castigate

• transmute