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Quiz on Last Month's Words

August / October 2009                                  Volume 10  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: tenable, untenable, and so on.

1. During the meeting, I was impressed to hear Ethan rattle off sales and cost numbers from the 1980s and ’90s! He really possesses an . . . . . memory when it comes to facts and figures.
2. As first lady of the Philippines, Imelda Marcos gained notoriety for her footwear . . . . . : reportedly, she possessed over 7,000 pairs of shoes.
3. In a bid to discredit Darwin’s theory of evolution, some say “Well, evolution is just a theory,” not realizing it is no less . . . . . a theory than, say, the universally accepted atomic theory.
4. Clara is a . . . . . consensus builder. She possesses a remarkable ability to deal with others easily and without friction, no matter how strident their views.
5. Some parents of school-age children across the nation complain that their school districts are . . . . . student test scores and therefore “teaching to the test,” thus denying their children a broad education.
6. They’ve wronged our family so much that each time their name appears in public, I am filled with negative thoughts. Try as I might to forget those wrongs and go back to clean, healthy living, I cannot. The hostile thoughts about them are . . . . ..
7. Well, right now, when our main rival is having financial problems, this would be a great time to make an assault on market share by, say, resorting to heavy advertising. It will not be . . . . . of us to take advantage of our competitor’s dire situation.
8. Some Americans who are on the extreme political right criticize environmentalists as being “overzealous” and “ . . . . . ”

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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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