4. The politician _____________in his speech when he saw his opponent enter the lecture hall.
(A) dissipated
(B) stuttered
(C) diluted
(D) studded

50. What can be inferred from this passage? (A) Those who ask for parents’ involvement in job application are usually incompetent young workers. (B) The cooperation between employers and protective parents may bring to a success in the workplace. (C) Most helicopter parents used to be very experienced employers who know how to discipline young workers. (D) The more conflict between employers and helicopter parents, the more difficult the youth generation could find a good job.

1. Though I had requested a _____________ critique of my work, I was not prepared for the harsh criticism that I received. (A) commodious (B) candid (C) benign (D) compensatory

2. He enjoys the harbor city as he has a ______ for water sports. (A) precipitation (B) predilection (C) porridge (D) postmortem

3. Dr. Frankenstein’s lack of _____________prevented him from considering what he would do with his creature once he brought it to life. (A) foibles (B) fidelity (C) erudition (D) foresight

5. “If nothing once, you nothing lose, For when you die you are the same; The space between, is but an hour, The frail duration of a flower.” —Philip Freneau (A) solid (B) failing (C) eternal (D) feeble

6. As Abraham Lincoln put it in 1861, the “Declaration of Independence” gave promise that “in due time the weights should be _____________from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance.” (A) lifted (B) placed (C) expected (D) born

7. Fearing that the instructor might get angry, the pupils bowed to him _____________. (A) obliviously (B) obsequiously (C) obstructively (D) omnisciently

8. She received the “Employee of the Month” award for her _____________performance on the job. (A) exemplary (B) evasive (C) dubious (D) duplicitous

9. To our surprise, what began as a postwar _____________for sunbathing is rapidly developing into a world health crisis. (A) fester (B) fetish (C) fiasco (D) fibula

10. This famous essay remarked that this was the best chance in 15 years to end the _____________of terrorism. (A) scorch (B) scourge (C) scorpion (D) scowl