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Quiz on Last Month's Words

February / March 2009                                  Volume 10  No. 2

Here are the words that were featured last month:

For each of the ten 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: archetype, archetypes, archetypal, and so on.

1. The wording in that contract was so . . . . ., it just drove me up the wall!
2. The New England Patriots' . . . . . head coach Bill Belichick is always stone-faced during a game, even when his team scores a touchdown or one is scored against them.
3. The Grand Canyon is . . . . . beautiful, and first time visitors are often at a loss for words.
4. Alex Rodriguez is the latest in a parade of top athletes who, after vigorous denials in previous years, have admitted to taking performance enhancing drugs and who stand guilty of . . . . . the ideal of sportsmanship and fair play.
5. No, my brother won't be accompanying us to the art museum. He thinks that going to places like that is . . . . .!
6. A new law to limit construction in coastal areas that are prone to regular and heavy flooding has been . . . . . by loopholes inserted at the last minute by lawmakers beholden to developers.
7. Yeah, I've been wondering why he showed such . . . . . in helping me, considering we've never even met before. Maybe he knows that my brother is chief of staff to the mayor.
8. In that case involving a very sick Latino boy who couldn't get any aid at a nearby fire station and who later died, it was the fire chief's . . . . . response during a subsequent TV interview that got him into trouble with the community.
9. There is never a time when Sheila is not burdened about something. She is the . . . . . worrier.
10. When Jonathan was in a staff position, he was always criticizing salespeople for 'traveling too much,' 'dining at fancy restaurants during business trips,' and so on. Now that he himself is a salesman, he's taken to such expenditures with . . . . .. I am very disappointed!

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Give yourself one point for each correct answer.

A score of 10 = excellent; 8-9 = very good; 6-7 = not bad; 5 or less = you may want to revisit these words.

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