Advanced Vocabulary Gapfills

Relinquish means 'to give up'. 

 Truckle and obsequious are synonyms, and they mean 'to behave in a submissive manner'.

 Epitomized means to represent, the most suitable word is 'personification'.

Envinced means to display and is thus, the correct choice.

Foment means to stir up or instigate trouble, making it the only word that logically fits the context of something that could cause trouble leading to a ban. Explode is literal for bombs, apprehend means to arrest, and pry means to inquire nosily.

Gnash means to grind or strike teeth together, often in anger or pain, which is the standard collocation with teeth in descriptions of monsters or angry expressions. Chatter is for cold or fear, cluttered means messy, and chastened means subdued.

Pry into is a set phrase meaning to intrude or inquire nosily into someone's private affairs, which perfectly matches the context of investigating others' lives. Squander means waste, stoop means to lower oneself morally, and pool means to combine resources.

 Squander means to spend money without dicretion and this would fit in with the sentence where the sentence is suggesting they would waste a year's salary on a two week vacation.

 Courting is the correct answer as this is similar to a boy courting a girl for a relationship. Here the relationship is that drinking and driving will lead to disaster.

'Whet' means 'to increase or enhance (the appetite, desire, etc); stimulate'.

Propitiate means to appease or gain favor from a deity through offerings or sacrifices, which precisely matches the ancient practice of animal sacrifice to calm an angry God. Promulgate means to proclaim, suppress means to hold back, and resist means to oppose.

Flaunt means to display something ostentatiously or show it off, which fits the context of Anna prominently displaying her tan against the contrast of a white dress. The other words are nonsensical: afflutering is not a standard word, communicating doesn't fit the visual display context, and lynching means illegal killing.

Twirl means to rotate or spin something around, which is the classic gesture associated with moustaches when expressing pride or satisfaction. Ruffled applies to feathers or hair, while tottered and staggered mean unsteady movement.

 Case of collocation. These words often go together in usage. So, 'falling at your feet' is the correct answer.

 The sentence indicates that the negotiations need to be made favourable to the speaker. So, negotiations need to be turned in favour of the speaker. Handling, dealing or finessing do not go with 'our way'.