Vocab 13 And 14 Word Usage

Question 1

The one-time millionaire _____________ financial ruin.

Answer 1

Incurred

Question 2

Great literature offers _____________ to readers through interpretation of universal problems.

Answer 2

Succor

Question 3

Some scientists ____________ that a tenth planet maybe orbiting the sun every 700 to 1000 years.

Answer 3

Conjecture

Question 4

The _____________ it 1989 of movements in Europe toward democracy after decades of communist rule surprise political observers.

Answer 4

Concurrence

Question 5

Millhands in nineteenth-century Britain worked in _____________ conditions with long hours and low pay.

Answer 5

Abject

Question 6

_____________ of winds from the hurricane sent high tides crashing on lowland beaches.

Answer 6

Acceleration

Question 7

In antique shops you can find a(n) _____________ of objects ranging from costly artifacts to useless junk.

Answer 7

Conglomeration

Question 8

Postal services promise ____________ and care in mail delivery.

Answer 8

Celerity

Question 9

Is the sentence, “Wow! What a victory!” the word “wow” is a(n) _____________.

Answer 9

Interjection

Question 10

The parents felt _____________ despair when they discovered their child missing from the campground.

Answer 10

Abject

Question 11

Racers in the Indianapolis 500 must _____________ quickly and maintain high speed throughout the 500-mile-course.

Answer 11

Accelerate

Question 12

“Right and victory do not always ____________.”

- John Selden

Answer 12

Concur

Question 13

At press conferences, journalists _____________ the president with questions.

Answer 13

Assail

Question 14

The tornado moved _____________, leaving a path of rubble.

Answer 14

Desultory

Question 15

The _____________ hazard for ships inter North Atlantic is the iceberg, as the sinking of the Titanic illustrates.

Answer 15

Salient

Question 16

Although reached independently, the _____________ theories of Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace concurred.

Answer 16

Evolutionary

Question 17

Some experimenters known as alchemists labored in the Middle Ages to make gold from lesser metals, to no _____________.

Answer 17

Avail

Question 18

Although my brother complained about the shortage of summer jobs, he had made only _____________ attempts to find one.

Answer 18

Desultory

Question 19

The Spanish practice of branding cattle and horses was _____________ in Mexico as early as the sixteenth century.

Answer 19

Prevalent

Question 20

Despite the loss of her life’s work in a fire, the artist remained _____________ in spirit.

Answer 20

Resilient

Question 21

Pinocchio and Cyrano de Bergerac are two fictional characters who have in common one _____________ feature: a very large nose.

Answer 21

Salient

Question 22

The character of Fanny Flinching in Little Dorrit is so _____________ that, according to her creator, her speech “has no commas in it.”

Answer 22

Voluble