1. I had planned everything meticulously.

Essential 350 M P74 ~ P76  N P77 O P78 ~ 79

□ carefully	□ quickly	□ busily	□ awkwardly

2. The two companies will merge.

□ close	□ verge	□ diverge	□ combine

3. The president finally understood the magnitude of the message.

□ application	□ importance	□ sense	□ certainty

4. In 1974 Hank Aaron broke Babe Ruth's monumental lifetime record of 714 home runs.

□ archaic	□ degrading	□ outstanding	□ entire	□ consistent

5. ______ is a partner in every success story.

□ Mobilize	□ Motivation	□ Monotony	□ Mortality

6. He sings the praises of his people, damns their indolence and mourns their sorrows.

□ expresses	□ accepts	□ laments	□ glorifies

7. Happiness in a relationship can come only with maturity and with mutual respect.

□ relevant	□ reciprocal	□ touching	□ upcoming

8. You malign a generous person when you call him a stingy person.

□ dissent	□ slander	□ slake	□ apprise

9. The young fellow was mortified by his flunking the test.

□ shocked	□ distressed	□ discouraged	□ humiliated

10. In the past twenty years, marriage in america had undergone a profound, irrevocable transformation, driven by changes in women's roles and the heightened expectations of both men and women. Without realizing it, we have crossed a ______ Rubicon.

□ hostile	□ marital	□ constitutional	□ repentant

11. Brain tumors have always fired the morbid side of mankind's imagination.

□ moribund	□ mortifying	□ macabre	□ mortal

12. Hundreds of people were waiting in a long line to stand summary trial for misdemeanors.

□ violations	□ petty offences	□ felonious offences	□ mischiefs

1. I'm not a nosy person so I try to stay out of other people's business.

□ overbearing	□ helpful	□ inquisitive	□ picky

2. In this perpetually changing world people are suspicious of novelty and it takes them some time; before they accustom themselves to it.

□ reform	□ newness	□ rapidity	□ dullness	□ vagueness

3. Nutty characters can be dangerous. If you see one of them on the street, you should call the police.

□ mad	□ drunk	□ strutting	□ swaggering

1. He was too obstinate to admit he had been wrong.

□ stubborn	□ frightened	□ selfish	□ cautious

2. John said he was obliged to his neighbors for all their help.

□ polite	□ opposed	□ accepted	□ thankful

3. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.

□ resentful	□ prudent	□ direct	□ judicious

4. The side effects of some drugs tend to outweigh the possible benefits.

□ exceed	□ balance	□ maximize	□ inhibit

5. This variety of hybrid tea rose is more odorous than the one you have in your garden.

□ mundane	□ stingy	□ oblique	□ fragrant

6. Do not obfuscate the issues by dragging an irrelevant argument.

□ detonate	□ illumine	□ elucidate	□ obscure

7. As Asian countries become more affluent, many people are adopting a more Westernized diet, which may cause obesity, says the World Health Organization.

□ poverty	□ obedience	□ obligation	□ heart disease	□ overweight

8. The snow was so heavy that it obliterated the highway.

Essential 350 O P79 ~ 80 P P85 ~ P88

□ froze	□ effaced	□ blocked	□ endangered

9. Some political analysts feel that the power of the northeastern United States is on the wane.

□ increasing	□ fluctuating	□ rampant	□ dwindling	□ powerful

10. The full moon is a bit ______ in western cultures.

□ oblique	□ omniscient	□ ominous	□ opaque	□ obsolete

11. Anxiety arises in response to inner stimuli which obtrude from the unconscious levels of the mind.

□ vanish	□ relinquish	□ suffer	□ emerge

12. Such an ______ act of hostility can be only lead to war.

□ overt	□ opportunistic	□ occasional

1. Ozymandias may have been presumptuous.

□ prosperous	□ shy	□ too self-confident	□ moderate

2. Proximity to the court house makes an office building more valuable.

□ Similarity to	□ Interest in	□ Usefulness for	□ Nearness to

3. After hatching the eggs, the female of the species seems to lose interest in her progeny.

□ mate	□ nest	□ offspring	□ welfare

4. Everyone would like a panacea for healthy problems.

□ protection against	□ advice for	□ a cure-all for	□ a decrease in

5. He overlooked many weakness when he inspected the factory in his perfunctory manner.

□ elegiacal	□ superficial	□ boisterous	□ systematic

6. He paused before he began telling him the bad news.

□ swallowed	□ thought	□ stopped	□ hesitated

7. Because tornadoes are more prevalent in the middle states, the area from Minnesota to Texas is called Tornado Alley.

□ short-lived	□ severe	□ widespread	□ feared

8. Even though he knew that his mother had been ill, he did not have the propriety to write to her.

□ apathy	□ eulogy	□ posterity	□ decency

9. It is also clear that speech norms are different in different social classes. Elites and working-class people not only have a different vocabulary but also pronounce words differently. Where variation in pronunciation exists, one form will be considered proper or ______, and others will be associated with lower economic status.

□ vulgar	□ medium	□ sub-standard	□ prestigious

10. The pharmacist was not able to fill the ______ right away.

□ medication	□ subscription	□ prescript	□ prescriptions

11. I advise you talk to a lot of people before you take a ______ into a new project.

□ plunge	□ plague	□ plump	□ plunder

12. The growing incidence of rape on and off the campus is fed by the proliferation of pornographic magazines and X-rated films avaliable to young males.

□ appearance	□ temptation	□ decrease	□ existence	□ increase

13. This insignificant writer's works are very prosaic.

□ like prose	□ versified	□ boring	□ poetic

14. It is ______ that a people so capable of treachery and brutality should also exhibit such a tremendous capacity for heroism.

□ paradoxical	□ agonizing	□ distressing	□ appalling

15. I know he sounds very convincing, but if I were you, I'd take everything he say with a ______ of salt.

□ pinch	□ speck	□ plot	□ spell

16. You should consult your _____ if your child seems very passive or withdrawn, perpetually sad or highly demanding and unsatisfied most of the times.

□ pediatrician	□ dermatologist	□ ornithologist	□ gynecologist