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VTest List 4 McKenzie September 19, 2018

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 39mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Lacking confidence: not feeling comfortable around people

a)

diffident

b)

feckless

c)

incontrovertible

d)

anomalous

2.

Not eating and drinking too much.

a)

diffident

b)

anomalous

c)

abstemious

d)

feckless

3.

An expensive and wasteful project usually paid for with public money.

a)

anomaly

b)

boondoggle

c)

epiphany

d)

Laissez-faire

4.

A policy that allows businesses to operate with very little interference from the government. Often used figuratively.

a)

Laissez-faire

b)

incontrovertible

c)

kowtow

d)

boondoggle

5.

Indubitable. Not able to be doubted or questioned.

a)

feckless

b)

incontrovertible

c)

Laissez-faire

d)

diffident

6.

A moment in which you suddenly see or understand something in a new or very clear way.

a)

kowtow

b)

bowdlerize

c)

boondoggle

d)

epiphany

7.

1) Worthless, irresponsible. 2) weak, ineffective.

a)

feckless

b)

diffident

c)

incontrovertible

d)

anomalous

8.

Something that is unusual, abnormal, peculiar or unexpected.

a)

anomaly

b)

boondoggle

c)

epiphany

d)

kowtow

9.

(brown-noser, toad-eater) To agree too easily or eagerly to do what someone else wants you to do.

a)

anomaly

b)

incontrovertible

c)

kowtow

d)

epiphany

10.

To change (a book, play, movie, etc.) by removing parts that could offend people. Censorship

a)

epiphany

b)

boondoggle

c)

bowdlerize

d)

kowtow

11.

The boss took a very _____________ attitude toward her employees.

a)

kowtow

b)

laissez-faire

c)

feckless

d)

anomalous

12.

In light of the __________ facts presented in the case, the jury was left with no choice but to convict her of murder in the first.

a)

incontrovertible

b)

feckless

c)

laissez-faire

d)

diffident

13.

You can try __________ to the boss to get the day off, but he’ll see right through you.

a)

kowtowing

b)

boondoggle

c)

bowdlerizing

d)

twitterpating

14.

BillyJoe becomes __________ when asked to speak in Youth Group.

a)

feckless

b)

incontrovertible

c)

diffident

d)

abstemious

15.

That was a ___________ move that will allow your opponent to win the game.

a)

feckless

b)

incontrovertible

c)

laissez-faire

d)

difident

16.

Critics say the dam is a complete ____________

over budget, behind schedule, and unnecessary.

a)

Rumpelstiltskin

b)

epiphany

c)

anomaly

d)

boondoggle

17.

It is an __________ to have a hurricane in January

a)

boondoggle

b)

anomaly

c)

epiphany

d)

kowtow

18.

He lived a __________ life, never having helped anyone or made anything better.

a)

diffident

b)

abstemious

c)

incontrovertible

d)

feckless

19.

Being __________ diners, they avoid restaurants with all-you-can-eat buffets.

a)

anomalous

b)

diffident

c)

abstemious

d)

boondoggle

20.

NewSouth Books Publishing is ___________ a new edition of Huckleberry Finn by replacing the “n” word with the word “slave.”

a)

boondoggling

b)

bowdlerizing

c)

kowtowing

d)

masticating