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WorksheetsLevel E Unit 5: Choosing the Right Word
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
American presidents often point to one of their schoolteachers as the ____________________ who helped shape their character and their ideas.
a)
discrepancy
b)
benefactor
2.
We soon learned that behind his retiring and __________________ manner, there was a keen mind and a strong will.
a)
truculent
b)
diffident
3.
In a grim old joke, a man found guilty of murdering his parents appeals for _________________ because he is an orphan.
a)
clemency
b)
assent
4.
It would be ________________ of me, as an editor-in-chief of the school newspaper, not to express appreciation for the help of our faculty advisor.
a)
indomitable
b)
remiss
5.
After boasting to me of your family's great wealth, how could you have the _______________ to ask me for a loan?
a)
clemency
b)
temerity
6.
As as state legislator, you should not give your _____________ to any measure unless you truly believe in it.
a)
assent
b)
chivalry
7.
We breathed a sigh of relief when we saw the supposedly missing set of keys ____________ in the desk drawer.
a)
plodding
b)
reposing
8.
I admired the speaker's ________________ flow of words, but they failed to convince me that she had practical ideas to help solve our problems.
a)
remiss
b)
facile
9.
By 1781, George Washington's green recruits of a few years earlier had been forged into an ___________________ army.
a)
infallible
b)
indomitable
10.
With all the deductions for taxes, there is a substantial _______________ between my official salary and my weekly paycheck.
a)
dearth
b)
discrepancy
11.
Planet Earth is a sort of spaceship on which billions of human beings have ___________________ on a lifelong voyage.
a)
reposed
b)
embarked
12.
Great political leaders know how to appeal to people not only through self-interest but also through their sense of _______________.
a)
temerity
b)
altruism
13.
She is a popular young woman because people realize that her interest in them is sympathetic and ___________________.
a)
remiss
b)
unfeigned
14.
The critic's ___________________ comments during the TV panel show were not only amusing but also very much to the point.
a)
pungent
b)
facile
15.
You will surely win more support for your view by quiet discussion than by ____________________ attacks on your opponents.
a)
truculent
b)
chivalrous
16.
He is not too well informed on most matters, but when it comes to big-league baseball, he is all but _____________________.
a)
indomitable
b)
infallible
17.
I had no inkling of your deep-seated aversion to pop music until I overheard your _______________ comments about it.
a)
altruistic
b)
virulent
18.
In the violent world of today's pro football, good sportsmanship and ____________________ behavior still have a place.
a)
pungent
b)
chivalrous
19.
The lawyer ________________ through hundreds of pages of the trial record, hoping to find some basis for an appeal.
a)
plodded
b)
embarked
20.
How do you account for the ___________________ of old-fashioned family doctors willing to make house calls?
a)
clemency
b)
dearth
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