VOCABULARY 14 B Question Preview (ID: 34066)


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Breaking up with his girlfriend was one_______________________that was just too much for Stan to cope with.
a) vicissitude
b) vanguard
c) profusion
d) sycophant

He was a good king because when he wanted advice, he never listened to _____________________________.
a) vanguards
b) his wife
c) sycophants
d) vicissitudes

The fall of the Communist block in Eastern Europe without firing a shot was a__________________________event in history.
a) vicarious
b) ponderous
c) pretentious
d) tawdry

He only brought $20 to pay for dinner, and had no idea that his date had such a __________________appetite
a) prodigious
b) vicarious
c) pretentious
d) sycophant

While he was alive, Dick Clark always seemed to be at the _________________of promoting the latest trends in music.
a) profusion
b) vanguard
c) vicissitude
d) intersection

The ________________________of rich desserts on the rolling tray was very tempting.
a) vanguard
b) profusion
c) vicissitude
d) perpendicularity

Seeing a woman of her advanced age wearing such a short skirt was about as __________________as a gold ring in a pig's snout.
a) prodigious
b) vicarious
c) luxurious
d) tawdry

Watching the travel documentary was a sort of ________________________trip to the continent.
a) tawdry
b) vicarious
c) vicissitude
d) sample

Before he was famous, he was down-to-earth, but after winning the championship and being drafted, his entire manner was __________________and phony.
a) pretentious
b) tawdry
c) chronic
d) vicarious

HIs ____________________stomach pains were only aggravated by the new appearance of kidney stones.
a) chronic
b) tawdry
c) profusion
d) sycophant

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