Vocabulary and Context Quiz

I tell people I’m from Phoenix, but to be ________, I live in Mesa.

• General

• Honest

• Specific

• Vague

Many American laws are based on the ________ that everyone is equal.

• Principle

• Assumption

• Belief

• Theory

Before I left on vacation, I had to be sure I had ________ money with me.

• Insufficient

• Sufficient

• Excessive

• Minimal

How you understand a hand gesture depends on your culture. In the U.S. when we hold up two fingers in a V, it means “peace”, but this gesture might have a different ________ in a different culture.

• Sound

• Color

• Interpretation

• Taste

There were no lights on at my neighbor’s house, so I ________ she wasn’t at home.

• Assumed

• Knew

• Heard

• Saw

My brother didn’t like his job in one bank, so he ________ employment in another bank.

• Sought

• Found

• Rejected

• Ignored

The witness ________ the criminal in a photograph the police showed him.

• Forgot

• Ignored

• Misplaced

• Identified

When you show up at a job interview wearing cut-off shorts and a dirty T-shirt, your clothes _______ that you are not professional and that you don’t care about the job.

• imply

• ignore

• hide

• confirm

The health insurance problem in the U.S. is _________. It is hard to understand all the parts of the problem.

• simple

• complex

• irrelevant

• solved

The _________ of the roads is expensive but necessary.

• destruction

• maintenance

• neglect

• closure