TEST 25
1) The candidate felt that his ___ credentials were
adequate to win him the job.
A) costly
B) product
C) cloth
D) independence
E) academic
2) Peace in the region was as ___ as the wind.
A) elusive
B) sad
C) homesick
D) denying
E) inscribing
3) My senator did a complete ___ when he voted for
superior taxes.
A) plastic surgery
B) reversal
C) march
D) construction
E) attention
4) The snow was so deep that Alan had to use a ___
to get through.
A) thrust
B) mechanism
C) dollop
D) shovel
E) tap
5) Can you see any ___ in having a large family?
A) to benefit
B) benefit
C) beneficial
D) beneficially
E) benefited
6) What sort of ___ did you make about the United
States before you came here?
A) assume
B) assumption
C) compel
D) strength
E) aim
7) The researchers ___ their knowledge before
writing the report.
A) systematic
B) systematically
C) systematized
D) system
E) systemic
8) You can't ___ a child to speak before he is
ready.
A) compel
B) compelled
C) compulsion
D) compulsive
E) compulsively
9) If you ___ the suitcases to the top of the
carriage with lots of rope, they won't fall off.
A) effect
B) determine
C) strength
D) aim
E) secure
10) Henry is one of the most ____ speakers I know.
A) effectively
B) effective
C) statistically
D) aimlessly
E) compulsive
11) He needs lots of ___ to start his own business.
A) determination
B) determining
C) determined
D) determinedly
E) to determine
12) How can you find the ___ to work and go to
school at the same time?
A) strong
B) wide
C) strongly
D) strength
E) aim
13) ___! You have won your competition.
A) Curses
B) Condolences
C) Commiserations
D) Congratulations
E) Congregations
14) . He is so angry that he begins shouting at the
___ of his voice.
A) top
B) loudest
C) highest
D) end
E) fastest
15) I persist in ___ at a French University for a
summer course.
A) inscribing
B) enlisting
C) subscribing
D) enrolling
E) finishing
16) . The oldest wedding customs still observed
today is the wearing of the bridal ___.
A) mask
B) veil
C) disguise
D) hat
E) hood
17) . He ___ his brains trying to find an answer to
the problem.
A) tortured
B) blew out
C) scratched
D) forced
E) racked
18) . Would you check the roof? I think some of the
____ are loose.
A) bricks
B) layers
C) tiles
D) foundations
E) stones
19) . He always goes on business ___ to Chicago.
A) trips
B) visits
C) journeys
D) travels
E) voyages
20) . He shook his ___ at me and threatened to punch
me.
A) hand
B) wrist
C) head
D) fist
E) thumb
21) As a result of the continuing economic collapse,
a huge ___ in the budget seems inevitable.
A) redundancy
B) improvement
C) profit
D) distinction
E) deficit
22) The current economic figures ___ that the
country is slowly coming out of the crisis.,
A) commit
B) imply
C) incur
D) evolve
E) invoke
23) When the rate of exchange began to increase
again, he felt ___ to call a meeting of the
financial staff.
A) obliged
B) blamed
C) consumed
D) omitted
E) rewarded
24) As far as we are concerned, the evidence put
before the court was not ___ enough to find the man
guilty.
A) subsequent
B) conclusive
C) adamant
D) earnest
E) consecutive
25) He devised an ___ scheme whereby the rate of
unemployment in the country could be decreased
sharply.
A) irrelevant
B) unstable
C) ingenious
D) untamed
E) illegible
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