Vocabulary and Contextual Usage Quiz Unit 5-1

American Presidents often point to one of their schoolteachers as the __ who helped shape their character and ideas.

• discrepancy

• benefactor

We soon learned that behind his retiring and __ manner, there was a keen mind and a strong will.

• truculent

• diffident

In a grim old joke, a man found guilty of murdering his parents appeals for __ because he is an orphan.

• clemency

• assent

It would be __ of me, as editor-in-chief of the school newspaper, not to express appreciation for the help of our faculty advisor.

• indomitable

• remiss

After boasting to me of your family's great wealth, how could you have the __ to ask me for a loan?

• clemency

• temerity

As a state legislator, you should not give your __ to any measure unless you truly believe in it.

• assent

• chivalry

We breathed a sigh of relief when we saw the supposedly missing set of keys __ in the desk drawer.

• plodding

• repose

I admired the speaker's __ flow of words, but they failed to convince me that she had practical ideas to help solve our problems.

• remiss

• facile

By 1781, George Washington's green recruits of a few years earlier had been forged into an __ army.

• infallible

• indomitable

With all the deductions for taxes, there is a substantial __ between my official salary and my weekly paycheck.

• dearth

• discrepancy