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Test: Unit 1
PART A
Circle the letter of the word that best fits each sentence.
1. Erosion from wind and rain could
a. obliterate
b. disperse
2. In the middle of his Memorial Day speech, the mayor made a(n).
a. chronology
b. digression
c. intermediary
2. grip
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7. That
Wednesday
5. The nurse obtained a blood sample using a(n).
a. dispassionate b. intravenous
3. As the clouds gathered and the day turned less sunny, there was also a(n).
a. muted
b. subtle
c. dispassionate
a. muted
8. The audience enjoyed the
a. intercom
4. Only once during the discussion did the professor from the University of Michigan
a. disperse
b. obliterate
c. retort
d. interject
1. interaction
a. interplay
a. traction
3. unemotional
a. subtle
9. Bob took the engine apart piece by piece in a(n).
a. intermittent
b. precipitous
10. Mr. Kajorski's Independence Day speech was
a. permeated b. interlaced
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the letters on an old gravestone.
c. regress
6. After many years of war, the leaders felt the nation was now on the
and prosperity.
a. intercom
b. digression
Date
b. brink
c. traction
company used illegal methods to put its competitors
b. systematic
c. intermittent
c. systematic
b. intermediary
b. brink
b. infamous
procedure.
d. permeate
c. systematic
way.
to explain why he got into politics.
d. retort
c. protracted
between the two rappers as they responded to each other.
c. interplay
d. traction
PART B
Circle the letter of the word that has the same meaning as the boldfaced word or phrase.
c. intercom
c. torsion
d. intravenous
d. infamous
c. dispassionate
change in temperature.
d. subtle
with glowing terms describing his new country.
d. dispersed
of a new era of peace
d. chronology
out of business.
d. infamous
a remark
d. disposition
d. chronology
d. muted