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Vocab 8

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

1. Although our society must punish criminals, I don't think we should do so simply as.......... for the wrong stay have committed.

a)

reprisal

b)

quandary

2.

The handful of ........... students who refuse to obey study Hall regulations are violating the rights of the majority.

a)

compatible

b)

recalcitrant

3.

The address was so dull and long-winded that it seemed to .............. rather than inspire the audience.

a)

consecrate

b)

stultify

4.

Two of the chief strengths of modern American Society are the variety and vitality that arise from its ............cultures.

a)

multifarious

b)

obsolete

5.

Clark Gable was a(n) ........ leading man who attracted women with his charm and good looks and impressed men with his strength and confidence.

a)

obsolete

b)

suave

6.

He is so absorbed in himself that he has become ........... in the normal expression of human sympathy and affection.

a)

parsimonious

b)

suave

7.

So we are faced with that old .......... -an income that simply can't be stretched to cover the things that we simply must have.

a)

quandary

b)

reprisal

8.

The headwaiter was so .........., and self assured in his manner that we took him for a diplomat.

a)

suave

b)

ingenuous

9.

Those students who have been doing their work all turn need not feel ................ about the final examination.

a)

apprehensive

b)

recalcitrant

10.

When my friends appeared with an MP3 player and docking station with amazing sound, I realised that our crash study session might become an all-day ..................

a)

reprisal

b)

revel

11.

I think we should offer congratulations rather than ............for the disappearance of that battered old heap you called a car.

a)

revels

b)

condolences

12.

Some people are .............. readers with a lively appetite for all types of fiction and nonfiction.

a)

omnivorous

b)

parsimonious

13.

Our Constitution is more than 2000 years old; but far from being .........., it is still a vital, dynamic and highly practical plan of government.

a)

suave

b)

decrepit

14.

I'm looking for a printer that is .............. with my computer.

a)

compatible,

b)

ingenuous