Review Test: duc, duct, flu, flux

Brenda decided that she needed to ______________ her workload, because she never had time to just enjoy being with her family.

• abduct

• reduce

• effluence

• deduce

As a trilingual translator, Miguel was ________________ in English, Spanish, and Cantonese.

• affluence

• effluence

• fluent

• superfluous

The university was surprised by the __________ of students who wanted to study economics. It was the most in a single year that the college had ever seen.

• influx

• affluence

• effluence

• introduction

Magazines can be very ____________ in the lives of young people; however, teens need to understand that some images and stories are fictional and published for publicity purposes.

• conducive

• deductible

• superfluous

• influential

Carmela doesn't like it when the temperature ____________. She prefers the temperature to remain constant.

• fluctuates

• deducts

• produces

• produces

The presentation began after the ___________ of the guest speaker.

• deduction

• influx

• introduction

• reduction

Being in a room with people who wear a great deal of perfume is not _______________ to a person who has severe allergies.

• confluent

• fluent

• conducive

• superfluous

Judging by her wardrobe, one might ______________ that she is very wealthy.

• abduct

• deduce

• influx

• introduce

She paid the $250.00 ___________ first, and then the insurance company paid for the rest of her hospital expenses.

• fluid

• influx

• deductible

• introduction

From 2004-2005, the company ____________ 7.6 million tons of buttons.

• deduced

• produced

• conduced

• reduced