1. Quiz 1

1. The paper made panicky attempts to ______ falling sales.

A) recollect B) retain

C) render D) revive

2. Without society an individual cannot be ________ as having rights.

A) deceived B) perceived

C) received D) conceived

3. It is a great _______ in singing to take the melodic line up to a position of energy and hold it there.

A) compensation B) composition

C) extension D) accomplishment

4. A system of beliefs can bring you ______ at times of stress.

A)maintenance B) reassurance

C) ignorance D) significance

5. He is serving a 15-year sentence for his alleged ________ in a plot to overthrow the government.

A) evolvement B) involvement

C) encouragement D) placement

6. The government is pressing for an early ______ of the hostage crisis.

A) resolution B) occupation

C) justification D) ration

7. The man felt a _______ about balancing between his mother and his wife.

A) delicacy B) decency

C) tendency D) consistency

8. ________ danger, he climbed the tower.

A) regardless of B) in spite of

C) on account of D) in case of

9. Arguing about details ______ many hours of the committee's valuable time.

A) presumed B) consumed

C) resumed D) assumed

10. He was firing a ________ gun at the spy planes.

A) neurotic B) outspoken

C) rational D) make-believe

2. Quiz 2

1. They had no intention of staging a _________ protest. (order)

2. The odds were slightly _______ against us. (load)

3. He dismissed her fears as ________. (ration)

4. The situation was grave enough to____ further investigation. (just)

5. I had ________scientists as bearded old men. (vision)

6. They _______hackers breaking into their information vaults. (vision)

7. His illness placed an _________ burden on his family. (tolerate)

8. I thought the whole idea was just a foolish and dangerous ___. (delude)

9. During the famine, the country was in a _______ state. (chaos)

10. The history of the company is closely ________ up with the history of the Grant family. (bind)