week 19. you have made a terrible mistake, and we expect that you will ______ it. abdicate...
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Week 19
You have made a terrible mistake, and we expect that you will ______
it.
• abdicate• felicitous
• renowned• rectify
• callous
Ted Williams was a homeless man, until a journalist discovered his
______ voice; he was quickly given voiceover work, and enjoyed 15
minutes of fame.
• abdicate• mellifluous
• pugnacious• arbitrary
• cogent
An overwhelming ______ kept Aaron on the couch. When his friends suggested they go play
basketball, he shrugged.
• obtuse• truculent
• placid• plausible
• apathy
The ______ pug lunged at the neighbor’s Great Pyrenees, a dog
ten times her size.
• itinerant• prosaic
• fallow• pugnacious
• austere
Pen & Teller, a pair of famous Vegas magicians, perform sleight of
hand through a combination of manual ______ and distracting
chitchat, or “patter.”
• pugnacious• obtuse
• renowned• dexterity
• cogent
After releasing the smash hit of 2012, the pop star was faced with the daunting task of _______ her
success.
• replicate• venal
• rectify• infamous
• apathy
He had the ______ living conditions common to poor college
students: a threadbare couch, an empty fridge, and bare walls.
• cultivate• austere
• dexterity• lucid
• disseminate
Considering the flimsy alibi and the many eyewitness testimonies, the
man’s ______ was obvious.
• recapitulate• disseminate
• culminate• reticent
• culpability
It is hard to stay mad at my niece, because she follows up any
misbehavior with immediate ______. Her parents know when the tears are fake, but I can’t tell.
• reiterate• lucid
• dexterity• penitence
• venal
A king should be many things: _______ to his poor subjects, honorable to
fellow heads of state, and prescient in predicting future trouble. Our king was not, and so it was a great relief when
he ______ and allowed a new monarch to take the throne.
• itinerant• pugnacious
• belligerent• obsequious
• munificent
I try and ______ my attention span by avoiding television, reading
books, and forcing myself to do an extra five minutes of work when I feel myself becoming distracted.
• chimerical• arbitrary
• cultivate• remunerate
• obtuse
The terminal was _____ of travellers, so we got to our gate
without any problems.
• lucid• callous• devoid
• itinerant• obsequious
The ______ pace exhausted the starters, so the bench players came
into the game early.
• penitence• commemorate• austere
• apathy• frenetic
Some people think the moon landing was faked. Do you find that
_____?
• itinerant• dexterity
• cultivate• pastoral
• plausible
To cross the border into Zimbabwe, we were forced to pay the _____ border guard 100 dollars a piece.
• munificent• culpability
• disseminate• replicate
• venal
_____ points, counsellor. The jury is advised to consider those during
their deliberations.
• cogent• perfunctory• commemorate
• amiable• reiterate
I was sent to the grocery store to pick up strawberries -- I think. His handwriting is too ______ to be
sure.
• abdicate• commemorate• reticent
• illegible• temperate