Choosing the Right Word Quiz

I enjoy science-fiction movies, as they provide a short but exciting from the problems of everyday life.

• umbrage

• hiatus

The magnificence of the scene far my ability to describe it in words.

• simulated

• transcended

My teacher can some degree of interest and attention from even the most withdrawn children.

• simulate

• elicit

The defense attorney quickly realized that the witness's statement was filled with, not facts.

• innuendo

• coalition

His skillful use of academic jargon and fashionable catchphrases could not conceal the essentially quality of his ideas.

• hackneyed

• meritorious

At the Senior Prom, my sister and most of her friends were glad that men are no longer expected to take the in choosing dance partners.

• prerogative

• hiatus

Perhaps it will your fright if I remind you that everyone must try something for the first time at some point in his or her life.

• expostulate

• assuage

How can you accuse me of employing when I am saying in the plainest possible language that I think you're a crook?

• umbrage

• innuendo

The newspaper account of the tragedy was quite sensational and filled with details about the accident.

• lurid

• provincial

Who would have thought he would take at an e-mail from a friend who wanted only to help?

• prerogative

• umbrage