Vocabulary and Idioms

It is difficult to understand people when they speak in an unfamiliar____________.

• ideology

• eclipse

• vernacular

• facet

While we like to think of ourselves as _____________, we all make mistakes on a regular basis.

• lucrative

• ostentatious

• infallible

• magnanimus

Sometimes I wonder if ___________________ people simply did not get enough attention when they were children!

• magnanimous

• innocuous

• inexplicable

• ostentatious

It seems that no matter what the candidate did (even being convicted of multiple felonies!), his die-hard followers were unwilling to _______________ him.

• repudiate

• venerate

• abate

• embellish

The waiter at the pizza place was so _____________ that I was compelled to write a great review on Yelp.

• hermetic

• affable

• deprecating

• credulous

The interview with the famous actor left me less than impressed; his responses seemed so ___________________ and disingenuous.

• sovereign

• exigent

• contrived

• fortuitous

Some people seem to function with a complete lack of urgency, even in ______________ circumstances.

• proscribed

• puerile

• decadent

• exigent

I tend to ___________________ opinions that have no basis in fact, preferring those that can support their views with evidence.

• eschew

• manipulate

• palliate

• incapacitate

Many people are simply too ______________ when it comes to standing up for their rights; they do not make the effort to act.

• fallow

• docile

• peremptory

• malodorous

My broken washing machine is such a ___________________, as I have to bring my clothes to the laundromat in town.

• nuisance

• juxtaposition

• tumble

• agitator