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Since he had been a steady, cheer ful worker for many years, his fellow postal workers did not expect his ______ burst of rage
- Aberrant: deviating from what is normal or expected.
- Aberration: A deviation from what is normal
- abnormal
- anomalous
- divergent
- errant
- deviant
- irregular
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The submarine dove into the ______ to chart the previously unseen depths.
- Abyss: an extremely deep hole.
- Abyssal: Pertaining to great depth
- Abysmal: Extremely bad.
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During Lent, practicing Catholics _____ from eating meat.
Abstain: to choose not to do something
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The vegetarian _____ a diet containing no meat.
- Advocate: to speak in favor of.
- Advocacy: active support for
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As the hurricane's force ______, the winds dropped and the sea became calm.
Abate: to reduce in amount, degree, or severity
- ebb
- lapse
- moderate
- relent
- subside
- let up
- slacken
- wane
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The patron _____ from the restaurant without paying his bill by sneaking out the back door.
Abscond: to leave secretly
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The restaurateur made his ketchup last longer by _____ it with water
- Adulterate: to make impure.
- Unadulterated: Pure.
- Adultery: An illicit relationship; an affair.
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The supervisor sought to _____ himself by claiming that the achievements of his staff were actually his own.
Aggrandize: to increase in power, influence and reputation
- apotheosize
- augment
- elevate
- enlarge
- exalt
- glorify
- swell
- uplift
- amplify
- dignify
- ennoble
- magnify
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The _____ Movement regarded the pursuit
of beauty to be the only true purpose of art.
- Aesthetic: concerning the appreciation of beauty
- Aesthete: Someone unusually sensitive to beauty
- Aestheticism : Devoted to beauty
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Taking aspirin helps to _____ a headache.
Alleviate: to make more bearable
- assuage
- lessen
- palliate
- comfort
- lighten
- relieve
- allay
- ease
- mitigate
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The restaurant won a reputation for fine service since the wait staff responded to their clients' requests with _____.
Alacrity: speed or quickness
- celerity
- dispatch
- haste
- swiftness
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The directions he gave were so _____
that we disagreed on which way to turn.
Ambiguous: doubtful or uncertain, can be interp reted several ways.
- doubtful
- dubious
- nebulous
- indeterm
- inate
- unclear
- vague
- cloudy
- equivocal
- obscure
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Giant Industries _____ with Mega Products to form Giant-MegaProducts Incorporated.
- Amalgamate: to combine, to mix together
- Amalgam: a mixture, especially of two metals.
- blend
- coalesce
- admix
- commingle
- intermingle
- commix
- intermix
- mix
- compound
- merge
- unite
- combine
- fuse
- mingle
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The aged hippie used _____ phrases like 'groovy' and 'far out' that had not been popular for years .
- Anachronism: something out of place in time.
- anachronistic
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The doctor was able to _____ the
patient's suffering using pain-killers .
Ameliorate: to make better; to improve
- amend
- better
- improve
- pacify
- upgrade
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Albino animals may display too great an _____
in their coloring to attract normally colored mates
- Anomaly: deviation from what is normal.
- Anomalous: Deviating from what is normal
- aberrant
- aberration
- abnormality
- deviance
- deviation
- irregularity
- preternat
- uralness
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His mother argued that not going to college
was _____ to throwing his life away.
- Analogous: similar or alike in some way; equivalent to
- Analogy: a similarity between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
- Analogue: something that is similar in some way to something else.
- alike
- equivalent
- comparable
- corresponding
- homogeneous
- parallel
- similar
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The _____ between the French and the
English regularly erupted into open warfare.
Antipathy: extreme dislike
- abhorrence
- animosity
- animus
- antagonism
- aversion
- dislike
- enmity
- hatred
- hostility
- loathing
- repellence
- repugnance
- repulsion
- revulsion
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The child discovered that he could _____ the cat by pulling its tail.
- Antagonize: to annoy or provoke to anger
- Antagonistic : tending to provoke conflict
- Antagonist: someone who fights another
- clash
- conflict
- incite
- irritate
- oppose
- pester
- provoke
- vex
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There is no hard or authoritative evidence to support the _____ tales that link the Roswell, New Mexico, incident to a downed V.F.O.
Apocryphal: of questionable authority or authenticity.
- disputed
- doubtful
- fictitious
- fraudulent
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The _____ of voters is so great that less than half the people who are eligible to vote actually bother to do so.
Apathy: Lack of interest or emotion.
- coolness
- disinterest
- disregard
- impassivity
- indifference
- insensibility
- lassitude
- lethargy
- listlessness
- phlegm
- stolidity
- unconcern
- unresponsiveness.
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When you lack the information to judge what to do next, you will be forced to make an _____ decision.
Arbitrary: determined by chance or impulse
- changeable
- erratic
- indiscriminate
- random
- wayward
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The _____ that Jerry Lewis received in
France included a medal from the Ministry of Culture.
- Approbation: approval and praise
- Approbate: to authorize.
- acclaim
- commendation
- extol
- adulation
- applause
- compliments
- exalt
- hail
- kudos
- praise
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