Quiz on Last Month's Words

September / October 2018                               Volume 19  No. 5

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: nihilistic, nihilist, nihilism, and so on.

1. Just between you and me, if we do get bought out by Carl Icahn or some other big-time investor, our CEO and the dozen or so VPs and Senior VPs will be immediately .........
2. Since our main rival is having financial problems, this could be a great time to try and grab more market share by resorting to heavy advertising. It would not be ........ of us to take advantage of our competitor’s dire situation.
3. During his Wall Street investigation, then-New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer discovered that some top analysts were routinely and ........ recommending stocks that they privately regarded as “junk.”
4. They’ve wronged our family so much that each time their name appears in public, I am filled with bitterness. Try as I might to forget those wrongs and go back to clean, healthy living, I cannot. The hostile thoughts about them are .........
5. Louis Zamperini--the late Olympian and WWII soldier who was the subject of Laura Hillenbrand’s famous non-fiction book “Unbroken”--........ his hatred for those who had tortured him in a Japanese prison camp by forgiving them and then traveling to Japan to publicly extend a hand of friendship.
6. The December 2014 killing of as many as 132 school children in Peshawar by the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) illustrates the ........ nature of that Islamic militant group.
7. The other day, I met a well-educated woman in her early-twenties who refused to condemn Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin for the millions they killed, saying that’s not for her to judge. I wonder how pervasive this kind of intellectual slackness and ethical ........ is among our youth.
8. There is no doubt in my mind that the inexorable march of technology is going to lead to the mass ........ of hundreds of thousands of grocery store employees within, say, the next decade.

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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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