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Quiz on Last Month's Words

September / October 2014                               Volume 15  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: valorize, valorizing, valorization, and so on.

1. Kelly is not the right person for the job of salesperson, which, in our case, requires the ability to “connect” with a potential customer who's having a bad hair day, for example. Empathy is certainly not Kelly's strong suit; it's not her . . . . ..
2. Reporters often describe Nigeria, where tens of millions live in abject poverty and miserable conditions despite its enormous oil wealth, as the . . . . . of government corruption.
3. My number one reservation against promoting Glen to manager is his long-windedness. I tell you, unless we can cure him of his . . . . ., he will leave employees glassy-eyed by the time he is done talking during staff meetings.
4. Once in a while, especially if it's been a really long day, I drop into the . . . . . Matt's office--that is, if he's still in--for a brief chat. Helps me lighten up before hitting the clogged highways for the drive home.
5. If I were you, I wouldn't give a second thought to John's comment. You know he makes . . . . . remarks all the time. One of these days he'll grow up.
6. The MacArthur “genius grant” winner excitedly told PBS that his project for helping high school and college students--a project which, until now, had been ignored by society--is bound to take off, now that the MacArthur Foundation had . . . . . it.
7. In the Oscar Pistorius trial, the judge's ruling that he was not guilty of murder but only of manslaughter amounts to a . . . . . of the South African athlete's claim that he fired four shots through his bathroom door thinking there was a burglar inside.
8. Two-time Oscar winner Cate Blanchett's . . . . . seems to be the adoption of different accents, which enables her to play characters so convincingly in one movie after another.

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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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