Vocabulary Quiz - Saving The World's Languages

By not being appropriately represented on the plan, the city's urban poor lacked the opportunity to ________ themselves.

• embattle

• embolden

• empower

Today's newspaper contains a searing ________ of police corruption.

• expose

• exposé

• exposition

• expository

Opposite of 'assimilation'?

• multiculturalism

• cosmopolitanism

• metropolitanism

Which word is NOT suitable to fill in the blank:

"It was speculated that shops and restaurants would _______ up after travel restrictions ease to cater for the pent up demand, but reality is anything but."

• spring

• sprout

• mushroom

"At Điện Biên Phủ, however, the Viet Minh controlled much of the high ground around the valley, their artillery far exceeded French expectations, and they ________ the French troops four to one."

• outsmarted

• outmaneuvered

• outnumbered

• outgunned

He has carved out a (a)   for himself as a consiglieri to billionaires.

"Constructing a film narrative, even a dumb one, is painstaking, expensive work."

Which of the two words below is closest in meaning to the underlined word.

• meticulous

• vulnerable

" (a)   haste!"

(meaning: hurry up!)

I hope the old buildings that characterize this city will still be ________ for posterity to admire and study.

• exist

• preserved

• around

• refurbished

People of mixed _______ have an exotic appeal about them.

• descendent

• descent

• descend