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If the fire alarm is sounded, all residents are requested to ________ in the courtyard.
- A) combine
- B) assemble
- C) crowd
- D) mobilize
- E) unite
The acoustics in the concert hall were very poor, and it would obviously be necessary to ________ my voice.
- A) exaggerate
- B) extend
- C) amplify
- D) develop
- E) increase
One rainy night the old bridge ______ into the river without warning.
- A) submerged
- B) collapsed
- C) degenerated
- D) immersed
- E) relapsed
The people who objected to the new road were told that since work had already started there was no point in ________.
- A) contradicting
- B) protesting
- C) provoking
- D) competing
- E) refusing
When they asked him about it, he said it was no ________ of theirs and wouldn't tell them anything.
- A) connection
- B) concern
- C) relation
- D) relevance
- E) influence
Nursery schools can be enormously ________ to socially handicapped children.
- A) admirable
- B) beneficial
- C) invaluable
- D) meritorious
- E) praiseworthy
Corruption in the running of the city's largest bank was ________ in the local newspaper.
- A) found
- B) discovered
- C) detected
- D) exposed
- E) commented
The lad spent several years as ________ to a master-builder, so that he might learn the trade.
- A) applicant
- B) apprentice
- C) learner
- D) student
- E) pupil
He said he couldn't _____ to retire from work and live only on his pension.
- A) accept
- B) afford
- C) compensate
- D) depend
- E) risk
After his heavy defeat in the local elections he decided to ________ from the campaign for the Presidency.
- A) abandon
- B) renounce
- C) retract
- D) withdraw
- E) withhold
After the outbreak of a mysterious illness, investigation revealed ________ of the town's water supply.
- A) corruption
- B) infiltration
- C) contagion
- D) pollution
- E) eruption
She was very interested in the work of certain charities, and made a regular ________ to them.
- A) subscription
- B) contribution
- C) allowance
- D) subsidy
- E) tribute
The students visited the museum and spent several hours with the ________, who was very helpful.
- A) commissioner
- B) bursar
- C) steward
- D) curator
- E) agent
As soon as the exams were over, the students all went their ________ ways.
- A) homely
- B) perspective
- C) respective
- D) relative
- E) diverted
The council members were dissatisfied with the wording of the recommendation, but passed it after ________ had been agreed.
- A) innovations
- B) amendments
- C) advancements
- D) preferments
- E) refinements
He ______ his old car for a new model as soon as he had won the money.
- A) interchanged
- B) exchanged
- C) replaced
- D) converted
- E) displaced
The brothers showed great ____ to their older sister, who had acted as sole parent to them for many years.
- A) compliance
- B) devotion
- C) subjection
- D) estimation
- E) allegiance
His poor standard of play fully justifies his ________ from the team for the match next Saturday.
- A) rejection
- B) expulsion
- C) exclusion
- D) exception
- E) ban
Even a small dog in a house can ________ a thief.
- A) deter
- B) arrest
- C) waylay
- D) counter
- E) forestall
His carelessness ________ the whole enterprise.
- A) ventured
- B) risked
- C) jeopardized
- D) chanced
- E) hazarded
I congratulate you on your ________ in jewelry.
- A) selection
- B) choice
- C) flavor
- D) taste
- E) likes
He ________ his rose bushes carefully with insecticide every evening.
- A) distributed
- B) spread
- C) trickled
- D) strewed
- E) sprayed
Playing on strong national feelings, they ________ the crowd to burn down the Embassy.
- A) animated
- B) inclined
- C) incited
- D) instigated
- E) impressed
Not knowing he had ________ out with his girl friend, I made the mistake of inviting them both to the party.
- A) fallen
- B) quarreled
- C) parted
- D) put
- E) separated
All visitors are requested to ________ with the regulations.
- A) agree
- B) comply
- C) assent
- D) consent
- E) concede
My father had to take private pupils in order to ________ his salary as a teacher.
- A) expand
- B) augment
- C) inflate
- D) enlarge
- E) complete
Even though the football match was not very exciting, the ________ managed to make it sound interesting
- A) commentator
- B) newscaster
- C) announcer
- D) presenter
- E) narrator
The rain soon worked its way ________ the roof of the old cottage.
- A) over
- B) in
- C) by
- D) through
- E) round
The Managing Director has asked to see the sales ________ resulting from our recent advertising campaign.
- A) numbers
- B) calculations
- C) amounts
- D) quantities
- E) figures
TV, If properly used, can ________ a child's imagination.
- A) cause
- B) incite
- C) arise
- D) invoke
- E) stimulate
The country's mineral resources have been ______ by foreign powers.
- A) disused
- B) deprived
- C) worn out
- D) extorted
- E) exploited
He earns his living by ________ old paintings.
- A) reviving
- B) restoring
- C) retrieving
- D) recovering
- E) renewing
Unless stricter hunting laws are introduced, seals will soon be ______.
- A) defunct
- B) out-dated
- C) archaic
- D) extinct
- E) obsolete
Inflation is very hard on people of ________ means.
- A) scarce
- B) impoverished
- C) limited
- D) needy
- E) shortened
A new system of quality control was ________ to overcome the defects in the firm's products.
- A) installed
- B) inaugurated
- C) introduced
- D) inserted
- E) invested
Ask the publishers to send you their latest _____ of English text-books.
- A) catalogue
- B) prospectus
- C) brochure
- D) pamphlet
- E) booklet
It is easier to adapt to new situations if one has a ________ attitude.
- A) changeable
- B) flexible
- C) moveable
- D) malleable
- E) pliable
He was smoking; I could see the tip of his cigarette _____ in the darkness.
- A) shining
- B) sparkling
- C) gleaming
- D) glinting
- E) glowing
Although he was under no ________, the shopkeeper replaced the defective battery free of charge.
- A) urgency
- B) guarantee
- C) obligation
- D) insistence
- E) authority
I haven't the ________ idea what you mean.
- A) lightest
- B) dimmest
- C) faintest
- D) furthest
- E) smallest

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