VOCABULARY TEST 4 

1. He has behaved _____ on many occasions, so this instance of impoliteness is hardly
surprising.
A) shyly
B) endearingly
C) sensitively
D) readily
E) inconsiderately

2. At the meeting, even though he spoke well, he was unable to _____ the other members.
A) complete
B) persuade
C) reinterpret
D) agree
E) dispute

3. The United States has long prided itself on being a melting pot of culturally _____ peoples.
A) diverse
B) redundant
C) incoherent
D) entire
E) substantial

4. It is _____ ten years since AIDS caught the world's attention.
A) formidably
B) generously
C) pertinently
D) roughly
E) inevitably
 
5. As a result of the continuing economic recession, a huge _____ in the budget seems inevitable.
A) redundancy
B) improvement
C) profit
D) distinction
E) deficit
 
6. When the rate of exchange began to rise again, he felt _____ to call a meeting of the financial staff.
A) obliged
B) blamed
C) consumed
D) omitted
E) rewarded

7. The new ceramics, which have little in common with the chinaware we use in our kitchens everyday, are being used _____ in engines and electronics.
A) depressingly
B) seemingly
C) increasingly
D) discouragingly
E) obligingly

8. When they called Mr. Smith to head office, I am quite sure it was not their _____ to promote him to branch manager.
A) avidity
B) impression
C) prediction
D) disposition
E) intention

9. Locke Hobbes and Rousseau were concerned in their writings with the question of a proper _____ between the public good and the right of individuals to exercise free will.
A) balance
B) demonstration
C) responsibility
D) interest
E) solidarity
 
10. If we are serious about suppressing terrorism, we shall have to _____ stronger measures than those currently in practice.
A) require
B) revise
C) adopt
D) abduct
E) suspend
 
11. I am horrified at the turn things have taken and am convinced that he is _____ of much better treatment than that which he is receiving.
A) rebutting
B) deserving
C) defending
D) safeguarding
E) indulging
 
12. When an unknown but gifted artist is finally recognized, his paintings can become valuable _____ in the future.
A) rates
B) accounts
C) sales
D) interests
E) assets

13. The journalists asked the Prime Minister so many questions that finally he felt it necessary to _____ the statement.
A) propose
B) refrain
C) clarify
D) undermine
E) exempt

14. Geological activity in this region has produced a landscape that is at once _____ and forbidding.
A) wasteful
B) cautious
C) discreet
D) susceptible
E) rugged

15. The medieval struggle between secular and religious power came to a _____ in the 14th century with the rise of nationalism and the increased prominence of lawyers, both royalist and canon.
A) influence
B) popularity
C) climax
D) summit
E) dedication

16. It is _____ surprising that the art of ancient America remains the most mysterious and the least accessible.
A) urgently
B) vaguely
C) indifferently
D) elaborately
E) hardly

17. Bartok was influenced as much by the musical innovations of Debussy and Stravinsky as by East European, _____ Hungarian, folk music.
A) exceedingly
B) notably
C) appropriately
D) vehemently
E) adequately

18. The argument he has put forward is hardly _____ with the information we have so far received on the case.
A) reflective
B) representative
C) arbitrary
D) resistant
E) compatible

19. If the situation in Somalia improves, a significant part of the allied forces will be _____.
A) enclosed
B) withdrawn
C) encouraged
D) recruited
E) sustained

20. More than 4,500 years ago, the _____ Egyptians prepared the first paper from the fibrous stems of papyrus, a grass-like plant.
A) ancient
B) outdated
C) fallacious
D) mystical
E) communal

21. Few, if any, of the statements made could be _____ substantiated by concrete experimental evidence.
A) intentionally
B) successively
C) restrictedly
D) impressively
E) conclusively

22. The British entry into the European Community has _____ a new line of policy.
A) negotiated
B) confined
C) resented
D) constituted
E) refunded

23. Dependence by primitive humans on their environment would not have permitted them to be _____ the effects of the surrounding world on them.
A) intrigued by
B) protected from
C) indifferent about
D) surprised by
E) knowledgeable about

24. When the world population _____ the 5-billion milestone in 1987, the United Nations estimated that it would not stabilize until the record mark was doubled late in the 21st century.
A) surpassed
B) defeated
C) remarked
D) conceded
E) generated

25. At the opening night of the new production of Aida the guest soprano gave a superb, a truly _____ performance.
A) dazzling
B) declining
C) disappointing
D) recalling
E) degrading