Vocabulary --- December 2011

1.  The actor was particularly good in roles that are suave and sophisticated.                      

     (A) naive        (B)urbane         (C) tactless            (D) clumsy

2.   She answered his questions in a timid subdued voice.                      

      (A) restrained   (B) enlivened     (C) intensified       (D) saturated                    

3.   It is not their aim to subjugate their foe; they are interested only in establishing peaceful relations.                     (A) co-exist with   (B) conquer     (C) liberate       (D) emancipate                    

4.   We must learn to recognize sublime truths.

      (A) moderate   (B) bland     (C) genial       (D) exalted; noble

                  

5.   Her talent was submerged by her impatience.                    

      (A) strengthened   (B) drowned    (C) invigorated       (D) animated                   

6.   A capable manager knows how to place trust in his subordinates.                    

     (A) coordinates       (B) persons of lower ranks     (C) experts       (D) superiors                   

7.   Subsequent events dispoved the expert's predictions.                     

     (A) preliminary       (B) antecedent     (C)resulting       (D) precedent             

8.   The ambitious young man refused to be a subservient minor bureaucrat.               

      (A) servile       (B) aggressive       (C) overbearing       (D) domineering            

9.   This information may be used as subsidiary evidence but is not sufficient by itself to prove your argument.       (A) chief       (B) principal       (C) secondary      (D) explicit             

10. This industry is subsidized by the government.               

      (A) charged       (B)financed      (C) managed       (D) operated