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Quiz on Last Month's Words

November / December 2009                               Volume 10  No. 6

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: penury, penurious, and so on.

1. During the final years of his life after leaving the White House, President Ulysses S. Grant had to endure great . . . . . because of bad investments.
2. One of the factors fueling anti-U.S. sentiments in some parts of the world is our cultural . . . . . around the globe.
3. I am totally against this new practice of people using email to even just say “hi” to somebody seated merely two cubicles down. This trend toward a lack of face-to-face communication is unwholesome. It is . . . . . to America’s traditional workplace culture that facilitates strong interpersonal contact and thus generates camaraderie.
4. During the brouhaha that followed revelations about the National Security Agency collecting phone call records of tens of millions of U.S. citizens to do data mining, some Americans described the practice as necessary for identifying would-be terrorists, while others called the NSA’s actions a . . . . . of our freedoms and of the Constitution.
5. People are really happy with the new manager. What a contrast to her predecessor, who was always . . . . . us about something or the other.
6. Most of the time, my boss is quite pleasant to be with. But when things start going south, she can quickly become very . . . . ..
7. Since coming on board, I keep hearing things like, “We need to do it Sarah’s way,” or “That is not what Sarah has in mind,” or “I think Sarah will love this.” The people here sure have turned her into a . . . . ..
8. In a sensational court decision in 2000, a federal judge ruled that Microsoft’s marketing practices were predatory, designed to maintain its status as a global software . . . . ..

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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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