Level D Section 5 Quiz

Most historians agree that military disasters during World War I were the _______ that sparked the Russian Revolution of 1917.

• reprimands

• catalyst

• militants

• slapdash

The best way to _______ the contention that something is not possible to do is to go out and do it.

• rebut

• facilitate

• incorrigible

• paramount

______, disgusted with the government's policies, took to the streets to register a vote of no confidence.

• Paramount

• Servitude

• Reprimands

• Militants

People who never give any assignment more that a "lick and a promise" may be said to belong to the ________ school of working.

• incorrigible

• reprimand

• slapdash

• arbitrary

For the world's starving millions, finding enough food to keep body and soul together has become the ______ concern in life.

• arbitrary

• paramount

• slapdash

• facilitate

The boss's _________ stung his employee especially hard, as it was delivered in front of the entire staff.

• reprimand

• servitude

• facilitate

• catalyst

Since they are firmly based on the logic of a sentence, the rules of punctuation should not be considered purely _______.

• arbitrary

• catalyst

• slapdash

• incorrigible

Her excellent command if both French and Spanish should ________ her efforts to get a position in the foreign service.

• arbitrary

• incorrigible

• facilitate

• reprimand

The family's _______ to the local lords had begun generations earlier, when an ancestor's misfortunes had resulted in a loss of wealth.

• catalyst

• servitude

• reprimand

• rebut

He has deceived me so many times that I am forced to conclude that he is simply a(n) _________ liar.

• rebut

• catalyst

• incorrigible

• arbitrary