5 Written Questions

1. The suffix-ling often has a(n) ________ connotation, as in the word princeling, derived from prince
2. During the rainy season, the highway sank at so many points that its surfae began to ________ like the track for a rollar coaster
3. My brother is such a(n) _________ collector of toy soldiers that I sometimes think our house has been invaded by a pint-sized army
4. ON the return trip, we cut straight across the meadows rather than take the more _______ path along the river
5. After the prisoner had been found guilty of teason, he was led before a firing squad and ______________ executed

5 Matching Questions

1. overt
2. talisman
3. incendiary
4. accost
5. propriety

1. a As an employee of the local polling service last summer, it was my job to _______ people on the street and ask their opinions
2. b The tons of ________ material ignited and turned the waste disposal plant into a roaring inferno
3. c THe Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was a(n) ________ act of war
4. d IN Grandmother's day, standards of ______ required that a young lady wear a hat and gloves when whe went out in public
5. e Down in the main square, a wrinkled old peasant was selling charms and _________ to ward off the evil eye

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. His pae face, hunched shoulders, and ________ stare showed that he had spent his life poring over old books and documents
   1. accost
   2. avid
   3. myopic
   4. gambit
2. To our dismay, we discovered that the water we had worked os hard to bring to the suface was too __________ for human consumption
   1. brackish
   2. accost
   3. gambit
   4. avid
3. THe ________ with wich he accepted our invitation to dinner suggested that he was badly in need of a good meal
   1. celerity
   2. propriety
   3. overt
   4. summarily
4. Saying that " people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones" is not an effective response to their _________ on your conduct
   1. summarily
   2. incendiary
   3. animadversion
   4. maelstrom
5. In the eyes of most Americans, people who burn or spit on our flag are guilty of an intolerable ___________
   1. sacrilege
   2. propriety
   3. undulate
   4. gambit

5 True/False Questions

1. histrionic → We looked back on those ______ years before the war broke out as a kind of "golden age" in our history

   True        False

2. halcyon → As an employee of the local polling service last summer, it was my job to _______ people on the street and ask their opinions

   True        False

3. gambit → Any book on chess strategy usually discusses the standard opening moves, suh as the "knight's__________"

   True        False

4. suppliant → Down in the main square, a wrinkled old peasant was selling charms and _________ to ward off the evil eye

   True        False

5. maelstrom → Many a rich southern planter saw all his or her financial resoures swallowed up in the __________ of the Civil war

   True        False