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Barron's 1100 Words You Need to Know » Words In Context
Select the correct word from the four given that applies to the corresponding letter in the blank.
With the ___1.___ of the TV computerized games, many set owners have become ___2.___ in trying to outwit the electronic toys. The ___3.___ finds it almost impossible to react quickly enough. Before he or she can ___4.___ what is going on, the little lights have sped by. Those who have a ___5.___ for thinking and reacting quickly find these games a ___6.___ problem. While the experts’ behavior appears ___7.___ , they really are ___8.___ and ___9.___ . If one is ___10.___ about trying again and again, then the ___11.___ of TV computer games can be mastered.
It is ___12.___ that women have ___13.___ into fields of work that were, until recently, the ___14.___ of men. It did not happen because of the ___15.___ of the males, but it was largely due to the ___16.___ insistence by women that they occupy their rightful place in our society. While some men still ___17.___ women who seek to fill jobs previously closed to them, others take the ___18.___ view that the only ___19.___ for women should be their ability to do the work, and that ___20.___ obstacles have no place in a democracy.
- ___1.___
- (a) rhetoric
- (b) prelude
- (c) advent
- (d) retrospect
- ___2.___
- (a) reticent
- (b) engrossed
- (c) slovenly
- (d) trivial
- ___3.___
- (a) wary
- (b) tyro
- (c) profuse
- (d) deplorable
- ___4.___
- (a) ascertain
- (b) obviate
- (c) deem
- (d) cajole
- ___5.___
- (a) lassitude
- (b) pall
- (c) legerdemain
- (d) penchant
- ___6.___
- (a) perverse
- (b) negligible
- (c) lugubrious
- (d) glib
- ___7.___
- (a) conjugal
- (b) frenetic
- (c) devout
- (d) ambiguous
- ___8.___
- (a) connubial
- (b) brash
- (c) facile
- (d) blunt
- ___9.___
- (a) aloof
- (b) affluent
- (c) overt
- (d) imperturbable
- ___10.___
- (a) bogus
- (b) elusive
- (c) tenacious
- (d) pecuniary
- ___11.___
- (a) effigy
- (b) malady
- (c) paroxysm
- (d) repertoire
- ___12.___
- (a) unctuous
- (b) voluble
- (c) manifest
- (d) wistful
- ___13.___
- (a) perpetuated
- (b) burgeoned
- (c) advocated
- (d) spewed
- ___14.___
- (a) acme
- (b) taboo
- (c) antipathy
- (d) prerogative
- ___15.___
- (a) largess
- (b) ultimate
- (c) complicity
- (d) avarice
- ___16.___
- (a) pernicious
- (b) tenacious
- (c) ostensible
- (d) phlegmatic
- ___17.___
- (a) deprecate
- (b) aspire
- (c) permeate
- (d) covet
- ___18.___
- (a) discreet
- (b) pragmatic
- (c) precocious
- (d) rash
- ___19.___
- (a) remuneration
- (b) reproach
- (c) duplicity
- (d) criterion
- ___20.___
- (a) puissant
- (b) sporadic
- (c) capricious
- (d) zealous
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