Choosing the Right Word Page 60

Select the boldface word that better completes the sentence: The voters may seem unaware of the underlying issues, but in the long run they cannot be (rectified, hoodwinked) by self-serving politicians.

(a)  

• rectified

• hoodwinked

Select the boldface word that better completes the sentence: There is a vast difference between democracy, under which everyone has duties and privileges, and (larceny, anarchy), under which no one has.

(a)  

• larceny

• anarchy

Select the boldface word that better completes the sentence: When her eyes suddenly blazed with such fury, I felt that the heat of her glance would all but (hoodwink, incinerate) me.

(a)  

• hoodwink

• incinerate

Select the boldface word that better completes the sentence: Though the dangers and uncertainties of a westward passage to the Orient cowed many a brave sailor, they did not (rectify, daunt) Columbus.

(a)  

• rectify

• daunt

Select the boldface word that better completes the sentence: We should begin studying foreign languages at an early age because it is during those years that our minds are most (auspicious, pliant) and receptive.

(a)  

• auspicious

• pliant

Select the boldface word that better completes the sentence: Spring, with its ever-renewing promise of life, is for me the most (inanimate, auspicious) of seasons.

(a)  

• inanimate

• auspicious

Select the boldface word that better completes the sentence: Although she looks young and inexperienced, it is not easy to (hoodwink, rectify) her, since she is a private detective by profession.

(a)  

• hoodwink
• rectify

Select the boldface word that better completes the sentence: At the design firm, the most well-received (larcenies, prototypes) for the new line of evening gowns were the ones made from a new silk blend.

(a)  

• larcenies

• prototypes

Select the boldface word that better completes the sentence: The team of accountants spent hours trying to locate and then to (rectify, daunt) the error I had so carelessly made.

(a)  

• rectify
• daunt

Select the boldface word that better completes the sentence: A great playwright’s characters always seem to come alive; those of a third-rate hack stubbornly remain (pliant, inanimate).

• pliant

• inanimate