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AG Vocabulary Part III
Test Description: Continuing from Book C
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) Fill in the blank: You can feast on that sentimental rubblish all you like; frankly, the merest taste of it is enough to _______ me.
A
nauseate
B
habituate
C
delve
D
engross
2) Fill in the blank: You may excuse their shenanigans as high spirits, but I think it is an outrage to display such ___________ on so solemn an occasion.
A
trepidation
B
rue
C
levity
D
accord
3) Fill in the blank: With that _________ appetite of his he need never fear the judgment, 'He eats like a bird.'
A
shiftless
B
pert
C
voracious
D
conventional
4) Fill in the blank: The student of history soon learns that in the pursuit of truth it is not always an easy task to distinguish fact from _____________.
A
embargo
B
fallacy
C
trepidation
D
accord
5) Fill in the blank: When I go into a card store, I generally go directly to the section labeled '_________ Greetings,' since I seldom remember a birthday until it has passed.
A
Pivitol
B
Veritable
C
Belated
D
Oulandish
6) Fill in the blank: The planning team _______ a campaign strategy to meet every conceivable contingency--except the one that eventually tripped up their candidate
A
appease
B
devised
C
engrossed
D
regaled
7) Fill in the blank: Some military transport planes are so __________ they can easily accommodate battle tanks and other armored vehicles.
A
pivitol
B
tractable
C
dexterous
D
capacious
8) Fill in the blank: One officer acted as a _______ while a back-up team stood ready yo apprehend any thug who might try to rob the helpless 'victim'.
A
recipient
B
ferret
C
decoy
D
tenet
9) Fill in the blank: The orderly transfer of power that marks the ________ from one administration to the next is one of the great achievements of the American political system.
A
barter
B
ruse
C
transition
D
milieu
10) Fill in the blank: The soldier was awarded a medal for heroism in recognition of the selfless ________ he displayed in rescuing his fallen comrade.
A
quirk
B
gallantry
C
transition
D
fallacy
11) ANALOGIES: naive is to sophistication as
A
kindred is to relatives
B
arrogant is to pride
C
haughty is to humilty
D
wry is to humor
12) ANALOGIES: dovetail is to clash as
A
embody is to encompass
B
exasperate is to mollify
C
adapt is to receive
D
gratify is to please
13) ANALOGIES: abyss is to deep as
A
valley is to long
B
acme is to high
C
bottom is to full
D
apex is to low
14) ANALOGIES: fiasco is to triumph as
A
foreboding is to optimism
B
stricture is to regulation
C
heritage is to birthright
D
armistice is to cease-fire
15) ANALOGIES: loiter is to aimless
A
embody is to senseless
B
amplify is to speechless
C
estrange is to hopeless
D
malinger is to shiftless
16) COMPLETE THE SENTENCE, WORD PAIRS: The treasurer should have been keeping tabs on the membership fund, but he was so _______ in his duties that someone managed to ______ the account of all but a few dollars without anyone being aware of the robbery.
A
tedious...villify
B
irascible...dovetail
C
reciprocal...exasperate
D
negligent....plunder
17) COMPLETE THE SENTENCE, WORD PAIRS: As a survivor of the concentration camps, the woman could personally _____ to the _____, unprecedented in scale and unequaled in horror, that were perpetrated against the innocent victims of the Nazis.
A
attest...enormities
B
adapt...impediments
C
estrange...strictures
D
embody...epochs
18) COMPLETE THE SENTENCE, WORD PAIRS: The ____ on some tombstones in that cemetery are deadly serious; others are wryly _____, even snide.
A
epitaphs...facetious
B
pseudonyms....durable
C
niches....bland
D
bolsters...pallid
19) COMPLETE THE SENTENCE, WORD PAIRS: I'd call the author's style ______ because she manages to ______ a great deal of meaning in very few words.
A
tedious...proclaim
B
wry...preclude
C
naive...evolve
D
pithy...convey
20) COMPLETE THE SENTENCE, WORD PAIRS: It was difficult to tell from his air of ______ detachment whether he had deliberately set himself apart from the group or had for some reason been ______ by its members.
A
volatile...sustained
B
inaudible....basked
C
plausible...flaunted
D
aloof...ostracized
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