Vocabulary Quiz 2 – Clearly mark the best response. 4 points each, no partial credit.
1. Due to
his client’s __________ behavior, the defense team knew it might be possible to
__________ their client on grounds of insanity.
a. erratic…exacerbate
b. gregarious…innovate
c. erratic…exonerate
d. frank…bolster
2. Though Mr. Johnson was more certainly the
most __________ person I’d ever known, the idea that he made his fortune by
saving loose change and cutting coupons was simply __________.
a. garrulous…indelible
b. frugal…implausible
c. frank…implausible
d. gratuitous…incontrovertible
3. Given
the __________ nature of the garbled message, the commander was unsure how to __________ his troops from their current
situation.
a. equivocal…extricate
b. incontrovertible…innovate
c. garrulous…deprecate
d. belligerent…extricate
4. Though
some teachers may want you to believe they are __________, such perfection is
sadly just __________.
a. impeccable…equivocal
b. infallible…illusory
c. indelible…erratic
d. incorrigible…innate
5. With it lush forests and damp climate, the rain forests
of the Amazon are a perfect __________ to the ___________ environment of the
Sahara Desert.
a.
avarice…arable
b.
antithesis…arid
c.
deprecation…austere
d.
antithesis…arable
6. By having such a diverse and _________ curriculum, our school may be causing stress by creating the __________ schedules faced by students.
a.
eclectic…daunting
b.
eccentric…duplicitous
c.
autonomous…antiquated
d.
abstruse…ambivalent