Vocabulary Lesson 12 Question Preview (ID: 18566)
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Antonym of the word in uppercase. To CIRCUMVENT the rules
a) avoid
b) ignore
c) relax
d) follow
Click the letter of the sentence in which the word in uppercase is used incorrectly.
a) Pilots who CIRCUMVENT airspace regulations fly at risk.
b) CIRCUMVENTING their supervisor, workers went straight to the company director with their complaint
c) To CIRCUMVENT a quarrel we gave the twins identical presents.
d) The children grew dizzy after CIRCUMVENTING on the merry-go-round.
Click the letter of the sentence in which the word in uppercase is used incorrectly.
a) Fearing foreign INTERVENTION, the Japanese closed their ports to Western trade until the mid-nineteenth century.
b) Through the INTERVENTION of the goddess Athena, the travel-worn Odysseus returns to Ithaca.
c) The gallery owner INTERVENED photographs by Dorothea Lange.
d) Parents must sometimes INTERVENE when children quarrel.
Click on the word that is most appropriate for the sentence. To settle disputes between scientists and animal rights activists the university ________d a bilateral meeting.
a) itenerary
b) convene
c) circumvent
d) convene
Click on the word that is most appropriate for the sentence. The ______ of the space age has speeded up the gathering of information about our universe.
a) advent
b) itinerary
c) telepathic
d) deviate
Click on the word that is most appropriate for the sentence. The airline pilot took a southerly route to _________ the electrical storm over Kansas.
a) impervious
b) devious
c) circumvent
d) itinerant
Click the letter of the sentence in which the word in uppercase is used incorrectly.
a) She DEVIATED from the modern language requirement by taking four years of Latin.
b) Tired of freeways, the driver DEVIATED the back roads.
c) Normal children may DEVIATE substantially from what are considered average growth patterns.
d) Migrating birds rarely DEVIATE from the flight path that they have followed in previous seasons.
Click the letter of the sentence in which the word in uppercase is used incorrectly.
a) The film If It's Tuesday This Must Be Belgium parodies a too rapid ITINERARY through too many countries.
b) The Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. is an ITINERARY you should not miss.
c) Pilot Amelia Earhart's planned ITINERARY around the globe in 1937 was interrupted when her plane disappeared over the Pacific
d) Mary Kingsley became famous as traveler/lecturer by describing the adventure of he West African ITINERARY in 1894/1895.
Click the letter of the sentence in which the word in uppercase is used incorrectly.
a) TELEPATHY is a form of extrasensory perception.
b) The first transatlantic cable was laid to assist intercontinental TELEPATHY.
c) Sometimes coincidence is mistaken for TELEPATHY.
d) IIn Madeline L Engle's A Ring of Endless Light Vicky Austin has the TELEPATHIC power to communicate with dolphins.
Click on the word that is most appropriate for the sentence. Blizzards and dust storms often forced westbound pioneers to ________ from recommended routes.
a) deviate
b) telepathy
c) advent
d) intervene
Antonym of the word in uppercase. IMPERVIOUS to heat
a) sensitive
b) impenetrable
c) thankful
d) unresponsive
Antonym of the word in uppercase. A DEVIOUS plan
a) reliable
b) strange
c) straightforward
d) ill-designed
Antonym of the word in uppercase. To INTERVENE IN a quarrel
a) take part in
b) interfere in
c) withdraw from
d) advise in
Synonym of the word in uppercase. To CONVENE for political reasons
a) agree
b) transgress
c) assemble
d) disagree
Synonym of the word in uppercase. To DEVIATE from habit
a) procrastinate
b) learn
c) hesitate
d) stray
Synonym of the word in uppercase. A welcome ADVENT
a) comercial
b) departure
c) arrival
d) adventure
Synonym of the word in uppercase. A weary ITINERANT
a) wanderer
b) travel agent
c) artisan
d) stay-at-home
Click on the word that is most appropriate for the sentence. Alejandro Malaspina's __________ from Spain to the northwest coast of North America included stops in Chile and Peru.
a) itinerary
b) advent
c) impervious
d) telepathy
Click on the word that is most appropriate for the sentence. The new carpet is ______ to stains
a) itinerant
b) advent
c) impervious
d) deviate
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