Level D Unit 5 Completing the Sentence

No matter what make of car you have, it is of ________ importance that you learn to drive safely before you use it.

• paramount

• brazen

• opaque

• stagnant

After the opposing speakers had both presented their cases, they were allowed time to _____ each other's arguments.

• rebut

• accomplice

• prattle

• morose

The fact that you cannot control those small children does not mean that they are totally ______.

• incorrigible

• slapdash

• arbitrary

• prattle

Mom and Dad said nothing when I failed the exam, but the disappointed looks on their faces hurt more than the most severe ______.

• reprimand

• annihilate

• rebut

• slapdash

It is an unfortunate fact that the _____ attitudes of Germany's kaiser and his saber-rattling cronies helped make World War I inevitable.

• militant

• exodus

• latent

• prattle

Fighting is considered such a(n) _____ violation of the rules of a game that the offending players are usually severely penalized.

• brazen

• latent

• accomplice

• rebut

Many people came to the New World after they had been sentenced to terms of disciplinary______ for crimes they had committed.

• servitude

• accomplice

• incorrigible

• succumb

In large areas of the huge swamp, there were _____ pools of water covered with unmoving masses of green slime.

• stagnant

• brazen

• servitude

• opaque

"If you spent more time and effort on your essays, they would stop being such _____ products," my older sister wisely observed.

• slapdash

• paramount

• latent

• morose

The helpful librarian did much to ______ the research for my term paper.

• facilitate

• catalyst

• slapdash

• prattle