Level E Unit 2: Choosing the Right Word

News of famine in various parts of the world has given added _________ to the drive to increase food production.

• nostalgia
• impetus

On the morning of the picnic, the sky was gray and overcast, but suddenly the sun came out and smiled on us _______________ .

• benevolently
• adroitly

Because I was not even born when the Beatles were at the height of their popularity, their albums do not fill me with ____________ .

• duplicity
• nostalgia

The lawyer's __________ questioning slowly but surely revealed the weaknesses in his opponent's case.

• adroit
• belligerent

Anyone who is ___________ to having a girls' hockey team in our school doesn't know what's been happening in recent years.

• averse
• cursory

When I saw my sister land in a tree on her first parachute jump, my interst in learning to skydice became decidedly _____________ .

• tepid
• adroit

In the Sherlock Holmes stories, we read of the evil Professor Moriarty, whose _______________ was almost a match for Holmes's genius.

• duplicity
• quintessence

Do you think you are being fair in passing judgement on my poem after such a _____________ reading?

• cursory
• benevolent

The nightmare that continues to haunt all thoughful people is a nuclear ____________ in which out civilization might be destroyed.

• holocaust
• jeopardy

Though it may appear rather ordinary to the casual reader, Lincoln's Gettysburg Address is to me the ______________ of eloquence.

• impetus
• quintessence