Level F - Unit 8 - Choosing the Right Word

A certain amount of disagreement is healthy in any organization, but in our club ______ has almost become a way of life.

• dissension

• perfidy

• odium

I noticed with some distaste how her usually overbearing manner became ______ when our employer joined the group.

• subservient

• bovine

• corpulent

If we are going to be required to perform a(n) ______ version of the play, then I think it is not worth doing.

• expurgated

• relegated

• disavowed

Imagine our ______ when the brakes failed and we headed full speed toward the busy intersection!

• consternation

• dissension

• impugn

Students who have been well trained in the social sciences should not be ______ to the cheap fallacies of racism.

• susceptible

• ignoble

• hypothetical

The estate he had inherited from his father was ______ in a long series of impractical and/or mismanaged business enterprises.

• dissipated

• disavowed

• expurgated

Try your best to subdue your natural reluctance and make a ______ decision that will be in your son's best interests.

• dispassionate

• squashmish

• bovine

My Spanish friend finds it hard to understand the ______ attached to bullfighting in most non-Hispanic countries.

• odium

• dissension

• gauntlet

Their ______ stares and obvious inability to understand the seriousness of the situation made me doubt their mental capacity.

• bovine

• disavow

• perfidy

Though I was annoyed by the child's behavior, the father's outburst of anger seemed to me deplorably ______.

• intemperate

• acrimonious

• hypothetical