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