Quiz on Last Month's Words

July / August 2018                               Volume 19  No. 4

Here are the words that were featured last month:

For each of the eight examples below, select a word from the above list that best fits the blank. Then check your answers at the end. Note that the correct answer could be any of the word forms that were featured – example: serendipitous, serendipity, serendipitously, and so on.

1. Talking about rudeness in public life, the other day, while I was admiring a Matisse at the art museum, my concentration was disrupted by a couple of security guards laughing loudly at the other end of the gallery. I felt .........
2. This coming October will the 80th anniversary of Orson Welles’s “The War of the Worlds” radio drama and the intense scare it caused among the public. I bet most Americans don’t realize that Welles pretty much reached the ........ of his creative years while he was in his 20s, even though he lived until the age of 70.
3. The famously daring Gen. George Patton, known for his ........ nature, earned a reprimand from Gen. Eisenhower for a much-publicized incident in 1943 when Patton slapped a soldier who was suffering from battle fatigue.
4. Our previous CEO, Ted, was ousted from the top job within less than a year because of his ........ leadership.
5. On the eve of the fifth anniversary of 9/11, the late architect Hugh Hardy, who helped design the famous restaurant “Windows on the World” which sat atop the North Tower, said on NPR: “The twin towers of the World Trade Center gave New York a landmark whose severe profile was ........ tall. Often ridiculed as lacking grace, the towers gave the city's downtown a distinctive silhouette. Its loss has diminished contrast among building types, making the skyline more homogenous and less bold.”
6. Ken’s rapid rise up the career ladder has resulted from a series of incredible .........
7. Revolting images such as the one here, or here, or here, are a testament to the world’s ........ use of plastic.
8. Xerox Corporation was once the ........ of fast growth: from 1960 to 1975--a period of fifteen years--its sales grew an average of nearly 40% annually.

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Give yourself one point for each correct answer.

A score of 8 = excellent; 7 = very good; 6 = not bad; 5 or less = you may want to revisit these words.

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