Set #2 Test Semester 2

Our meeting last week was marred by a heated debate over how to ___ the funds in this year's budget.

• allocate

• chastise

• exult

• ardent

Your ___ interest in the environment shows that you care deeply about the welfare of the planet.

• ardent

• brash

• spontaneous

• exult

He tries hard to sound well-informed, but his superficial answers only show his ___ knowledge of world affairs.

• poignant

• sophomoric

• ardent

• allocate

She was ___ enough to tell her mother she was going to the dance despite the doctor's orders.

• spontaneous

• brash

• palatable

• ardent

The entire student body ___ when our team finally won the citywise basketball championship.

• exulted

• allocated

• ardent

• deviated

We must show understanding and acceptance of those who ___ somewhat from our own standards of what is appropriate.

• exult

• deviate

• allocate

• chumbawumba

I spent the better part of an hour trying to untangle our badly ___ set of Chrismas lights.

• gnarled

• jobbled

• rancor

• poignant

Perhaps you have been treated unfairly, but what good will it do to allow your sense of ___ to control your mood and behavior?

• spontaneity

• rancor

• exult

• palatable

The United Nations is not ___. It can do only what member nations allow it to do.

• palatable

• omnipotent

• gnarled

• spontaneous

I tried not to ___ from the directions in the owner's manual.

• allocate

• deviate

• exult

• ardent