Vocabulary Quiz 1

It’s amazing how even the most ....................... desires you have as a teenager tend to fade away as you face the reality of adulthood.

• concede
• fluid
• ardent
• sphere

After John beat me at chess five times, I had to ...................... he was the better player.

• en masse
• ardent
• foster
• concede

Positive .....................is used to boost students’ good behaviors while eliminating negative ones.

• autobiographical
• in terms of
• reinforcement
• allocation

After the terrorist bombings, the government placed several of the country’s flags at the site of the ruins to ................... patriotism.

• buoy
• concede
• imbue
• foster

Inconsistency in...............of funds led to a negative balance in one account.

• autobiographical
• disparate
• en masse
• allocation

Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” became an .................. for the LGBT community.

• anthem
• foster
• concede
• ardent

Even though they are identical twins, they have such ....................personalities that it’s impossible to get them confused.

• disparate
• generic
• fluid
• foster

The professor hoped to ..................a genuine interest in his students to pursue research.

• foster
• fluid
• concede
• generic

I thought eating spinach would .................my muscles with super strength like Popeye the Sailor Man when I was a kid.

• in terms of
• concede
• infuse
• autobiographical

Many action movies today are so..................with their plots that you can predict what is going to happen from start to finish.

• episodic
• concede
• generic
• foster