From the list below, supply the words needed to complete the paragraph. Some words will not be used. chauvinist, ostentatious, beIated, egalitarian. The corporation claimed to endorse _____ company policies, but some of the managers were _____ who refused to promote anyone not native to Scandinavia. One of the foreign employees eventually filed suit against the company, and in two years was awarded the _____ promotion he had long deserved.

From the list below, supply the words needed to complete the paragraph. Some words will not be used. admonish, affliction, lax, imperturbable, delete, obeisance, oust. Everyone knew that Kiplar was an outsider when he failed to give _____ to the passing Queen. One of the royal escorts immediately spotted Kiplar and walked over to _____ him for his failure to show respect. "What is this _____ of yours that prevents you from taking a knee upon sight of our queen? Shall we _____ you from your sleepy village and see how you fare in a dungeon?" The guard's threat did not faze the _____ man. Kiplar, still standing, simply smiled.

From the list below, supply the words needed to complete the paragraph. Some words will not be used. condone, officious, nuance, cult, connoisseur, credence, torpor, dilettante. The chef, tucked away in the kitchen, nervously awaited the report from the latest critic. Knowing that Mr. Tahoma was a[n] _____ of Peruvian cuisine and a weekly newspaper columnist with a[n] ____ following, the chef hoped that the waiters refrained from the _____ behavior that well-known food critics must often endure from servers. The chef had run the restaurant for twenty-eight years; he was certainly not a[n] _____ in matters of cooking, but owing to a decline in customers, he worried about the fate of the business. He could only hope that Mr. Tahoma would rave about the many subtle _____ in the meal. A positive review, combined with the _____ accorded to the column, might be all that the chef needed to save the restaurant.

From the list below, supply the words needed to complete the paragraph. Some words will not be used.

$$\begin{matrix} \text{admonish} & \text{affliction} & \text{lax} & \text{smug}\\ \text{delete} & \text{obeisance} & \text{oust}\\ \end{matrix}$$

Everyone knew that Kiplar was an outsider when he failed to give _____ to the passing queen. One of the royal escorts immediately spotted Kiplar and walked over to _______ him for his failure to show respect. "What is this _______ of yours that prevents you from taking a knee upon sight of our queen? Shall we _______ you from your sleepy village and see how you fare in a dungeon?" The guard's threat did not faze the ______ man Kiplar, still standing, simply smiled.

From the list below, supply the words needed to complete the paragraph. Some words will not be used.

$$\begin{matrix} \text{lethal} & \text{effusive} & \text{gape} & \text{anachronism}\\ \text{holocaust} & \text{defunct} & \text{embroil}\\ \end{matrix}$$

The argument over the reality of global warming _____ m any scientists, most of whom disagree among themselves. Some claim that global warming will cause a planetary ______ in which nothing will survive. Other scientists claim such ______ theories are meant only to cause worldwide panic. Indeed, they agree that global warming exists, but that it might take thousands of years to cause the climate to become _____. In a thousand years, or even a hundred years, they assert, the processes that cause global warming will be made _____ by new technologies.

From the list below, supply the words needed to complete the paragraph. Some words will not be used. bastion, jettison, irascible, avarice, ostracize. Isabel's _____ personality had gotten her into trouble before, but never as much as it did now. In reaction to her outburst during the assembly, Isabel's class _____ her. Classmates would not sit next to Isabel, let alone speak to her. If her disruption had happened on a ship, Isabel thought, the passengers might have ____ her over the side.

From the list below, supply the words needed to complete the paragraph. Some words will not be used. humility dolorous agrarian gadfly gargantuan avid explicit formidable epistle B. The atmosphere at Aunt Agnes's farmhouse was ___ during the wake. No one could believe that Agnes was gone. At least, they reasoned, the ____ equestrian died while doing something that she loved. There was no definite explanation as to why Agnes's horse bucked her off, but by the looks of the ____ animal tracks the horse had been spooked by a[n] ____ wolf, perhaps the largest ever seen. The threat of wolves was nothing new to the ___ Van Ness family, who had been farming the northern valley for six generations. Wolves had attacked horses on the farm in the past, especially during extremely cold winters such as this one. Children on the farm always had ___ instructions to stay within sight of the house, but sometimes not even that was enough to protect the family from the hungry, silver predators. Needing a break, Vicky wandered up the stairway to the second floor. Memories of her youth flashed through her head as she entered Agnes's room and sat on the corner of the bed. That's when she noticed the dusty corner of an old shoebox protruding from beneath the vanity. Curious, Vicky retrieved the box and, to her surprise, she found thirty years of hand-written ___, some of which were for Agnes, and some of which Agnes wrote but never sent.

From the list below, supply the words needed to complete the paragraph. Some words will not be used. credence, torpor, condone, jaunty, nuance, enigma. Though she was a hostess at the restaurant, Rolinda remained seated, even as customers entered the waiting area. Revealing her _____ over hungry suburbanites, Rolinda confined herself to a sigh and let younger servers greet the new potential tippers at the door. She knew that her manager would not _____ her behavior so she took her place in front of the main table. Rolinda also wondered why, even though she hadn't been sick, she had been so tired for the last month. If she didn't solve this _____ soon, she would more than likely lose her job. For another day, she would just have to put on a fake smile and affect a[n] _____ manner until the end of her shift.

From the list below, supply the words needed to complete the paragraph. Some words will not be used. extradite, mercenary, ostracize, bacchanalian, furtive, bastion, avarice, copious. Hired to combat an increase in drug trafficking, the _____ silently crawled through the fence line of the kingpin's plantation and found a good hiding place. For two days, Manco sat in the patch and observed the mansion-supposedly an impenetrable _____ from which the criminal operated his international cartel. Manco was relieved to see that the rumors were false; the kingpin's _____ lifestyle of nightly parties would make Manco's job simple because of the _____ noise and inadequate light beyond the cocktail area. After a[n] _____ infiltration of the mansion, Manco would have an easy time arresting the man, handcuffing him, sneaking him out, and then _____ him to the States, where he would face trial on a number of charges. The drug lord was about to become a victim of his own _____; had he kept his illegal business small and untraceable, no one would have hired Manco to deal with him.

Using literal translations as guidance, define the following words without using a dictionary: A. innovation B. novel C. nautical D. multitude E. multimedia F. neoclassical.

From the list below, supply the words needed to complete the paragraph. Some words will not be used. Indisposed, imbue, sally, commandeer, declaim, cadence, stark. The inmate had planned his escape for years while enduring the ______ conditions of the castle dungeon in which his brother, the false king, had confined him. First, he would slip tainted meat into the guard's meal, which would render him ______ for a while. When he could no longer hear the ______ of the patrolling guard's footsteps, he would flee to the courtyard and ______ a horse. Once quietly passing through the open gates, the inmate would leave the road and _____ through the thickest part of the forest in order to make it difficult for his pursuers to track him.

From the list below, supply the words needed to complete the paragraph. Some words will not be used.

$$\begin{matrix} \text{paean} & \text{delete} & \text{oust} & \text{mendicant}\\ \text{cache} & \text{oscillate} & \text{palpable}\\ \end{matrix}$$

In the late afternoon, Marvin opened the bottom drawer of his desk to reveal a[n] _______ of snack cakes and little bags of potato chips. He helped himself to _______ any old ones that were just taking up space on the computer's hard drive. A heavy fan ______ in the comer of the office, causing self-adhesive notes and thumb-tacked comic strips to flap around in the breeze every few seconds. Next to the fan was a tied trash bag full of empty aluminum soda cans for Joe, a[n] _______ who lived in the alley behind the magazine publisher, Joe, who chose the streets over shelters, inspired many people at the office, and he had no idea that Marvin's next article was going to be a[n] _______ to the homeless who have learned to sustain themselves despite their austere living conditions.

Find the global maximum and minimum for the function on the closed interval. $f ( x ) = x ^ { 4 } - 8 x ^ { 2 } , \quad - 3 \leq x \leq 1$

From the list below, supply the words needed to complete the paragraph. Some words will not be used. augment, jingoism, argot, candid, chaos, appease A. The prime Minister faced a though decision to ____an angered nation. The ____ resulting from the surprise attack fueled wide spread ____, and citizens were tired of the administration's inaction. When he finally spoke, the Prime Minister delivered a[n] ____ address that revealed his anger and his plan of counterattack.