Vocabulary
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Directions: Choose the option which best replaces the underlined word in the given sentence.
The doctor said plainly and without sophistry what the malady was.
- candor
- confidence
- subterfuge
- truthfulness
- vigilant
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The investigator went to the sinner's grave and stood at the foot of it looking very curiously.
- reprobate's
- criminal's
- witness's
- thief's
- prosecutor's
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Israel is passing through a period of organizational strife these days.
- blatant
- fraternal
- civil
- internecine
- external
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The movements of the suspicious thieves were circumscribed
- restricted within limits
- surrounded
- enveloped
- encompassed
- encircled
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He delivered a jeremiad to a crowd at the church.
- ballad
- lyric
- elegy
- sermon
- tale of woe
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The world recession has made all the countries chew the cud after all.
- face a dilemma
- think deeply
- think irrationally
- face humiliation
- go in a cocoon
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Some people feel that capital punishment is a well deserved punishment that satisfies our sense of justice.
- reprisal
- requital
- chastisement
- retribution
- prerogative
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The venture capitalists were able to sell their stock for a nice return before the shares dived.
- boomed
- plummeted
- traded
- boomeranged
- escalated
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The Watergate atrocity simply looks like a vicious retaliation for successful military operations undertaken by the Kenyan troops.
- atonement
- indemnity
- reprisal
- reward
- requital
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Cross border terrorism has blocked the peace negotiations between the two nations.
- prevaricated
- equivocated
- stalled
- hamstrung
- scrubbed
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Peace talks between the two nations snapped even before they started.
- broke up
- broke down
- broke away
- broke into
- broke out
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The media have been exhorting us to be aware our consumer rights.
- ordering
- strongly urging
- advising
- propagating
- preaching
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Since the US troops withdrawal from Iraq, that country has deteriorated continuously into sectarian violence.
- veered
- wilted
- escalated
- penetrated
- spiralled
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Some of the stockholders are threatening to scuttle the deal.
- postpone
- destroy
- go haywire
- auction
- deliberately abandon
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For all the knowledge on the need for road safety, the issue has not spread through the public consciousness.
- permeated
- impregnated
- transfused
- metastasized
- fraught