Vocabulary and Reading Comprehension

I read a ___________ she had cut from a magazine.

• novel

• book

• snippet

Don't ____________the difficulties of getting both parties to the conference table!

• unfold

• undermine

• underestimate

As the plot __________, you gradually realize that all your initial assumptions were wrong.

• unfold

• unfolds

• underestimates

If a staircase or path ___________, it leads up to a higher position.

• ascend

• descend

• ascends

Since then I've lived alone and _______________myself in my career.

• immersed

• immerse

• emerged

To keep their bees from ____________, beekeepers feed them sugar solutions.

• wander

• wondering

• wandering

Violence ___________in densely populated areas.

• breed

• breeds

• brings

His wife divorced him following the _______________of his affair with a former secretary.

• reveal

• revelation

• revealment

Guileless is someone who is

• honest and innocent

• deceiving

• dishonest

Tedious means

• interesting

• exciting

• boring