5.31 Morning Vocab

(v.) to understand, get to the bottom of, to determine the depth of

• stark

• fathom

• endemic

• potent

It is quite useless to try to _______ dissatisfied customers who actually enjoy being angry and making complaints.

• placate

• allude

• pretext

• fathom

Many a young idealist has found it difficult to accept the ______ realities of life.

• endemic

• potent

• misconstrue

• stark

Music has been called the most ______ agent for inducing people to forget their differences and live in harmony.

• potent

• clairvoyant

• obnoxious

• stark

Legally a defendant is innocent until proven guilty, so do not _______ a refusal to testify as an admission of guilt.

• clairvoyant

• allude

• misconstrue

• fathom

(adj.) supernaturally perceptive
(n.) one who possesses extrasensory powers

• clairvoyant
• guile
• superficial
• potent

(n.) a false reason, deceptive excuse

• guile

• misconstrue

• clairvoyant

• pretext

Sherlock Holmes assured Dr. Watson that it was simple deduction, not some ________ faculty, that led him to the document's hiding place.

• stark

• clairvoyant

• endemic

• pretext

His conceit and his cold disregard of other people's feelings make him utterly _______.

• obnoxious

• misconstrue

• clairvoyant

• potent

Blue jeans, once ________ to the cowboys of the American West, are now a familiar part of the whole world's wardrobe.

• obnoxious

• pretext

• potent

• endemic