Jan. 27 Vocab Quiz

Congress also passed legislation to target what lawmakers say are Chinese human rights abuses, and to ______US chip manufacturing.

• inquistive

• depreciate

• bolster

• relegate

Your genotype won't '______' in a literal sense, and more practically until whole-genome sequencing gets affordable within the next decade (i.e., < 10 years) 1 million SNPs is a pretty good deal.

• replete

• relegate

• bolster

• depreciate

The great market sell-off of 2022 has been ________.

• inquisitive

• indiscriminate

• nebulous

• terse

It's partly because humans are naturally ______ and exploratory but also, and more significant, because we need the unknown, what historians of religion call "otherness," to lend our lives significance.

• inquisitive

• nebulous

• sedentary

• terse

Here again, the otherworldly threat is _____ and undefined, evoked by inexplicable meteorological phenomena and by its psycho-spiritual effect on the human population rather than by raygun-wielding extra-terrestrial invaders.

• terse

• nebulous

• inquisitve

• indiscriminate

Thankful there are finally some Oscar contenders that can buoy the broadcast and keep the show alive — and hopeful that the Academy will no longer ______ artisan categories to second-class status.

• replete

• bolster

• depreciate

• relegate

For years now, the label has been presenting its collections in a party format dubbed Hotel Vivier, ______ with live actors that border on camp and interact with guests.

• replete

• tenet

• terse

• inquisitve

Plus, a minor bout of Omicron early this year—and the more ______ work-from-home lifestyle—lit a fire under me to take better care of myself.

• nebulous

• sedentary

• terse

• indiscriminate

Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin has seized on as a core ______ of his campaign, calling for an audit of Virginia voting machines and repeatedly encouraging poll watchers to volunteer.

• tenet

• bolster

• sedentary

• terse

When Marjorie Dannenfelser, the president of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, reached out to Mr. McConnell, hoping to get a meeting about advancing a ban, the response was _____.

• nebulous

• inquisitive

• terse

• sedentary