1. The party will begin immediately after the _________ of the new building.

a) mitigation b) imposition c) inauguration d) precipitation

2. A radical change in people’s lifestyle could be in the __________ if the government ends free housing.

a) upping b) dubbing c) scoffing d) offing

3. The report spoke __________ of the excellent work carried out by the research team.

a) famously b) glowingly c) lazily d) gloomily

4. He isn't interested in the ____________ details.

a) niggly b) wriggly c) higgledy d) nobbly

5. Bob Marley's lyrics were written in the Jamaican__________ .

a) accent b) language c) dialog d) dialect

6. The Countess of Lovelace was the only _____________ child of Lord Byron.

a) legal b) legitimate c) proper d) true

7. The soldiers were digging deep ______________.

a) pockets b) buckets c) furrows d) trenches

8. He is not popular and has few _____________ ways about him.

a) dear b) endearing c) endearment d) durable

9. His speech was hard to follow but I got the____________ of it.

a) best b) influence c) scope d) gist

10. Many of the ____________ people have been displaced by immigrants.

a) indicative b) endogenous c) indigenous d) indictable

11. Tom Paine was ___________ for treason by the British.

a) indicted b) indicated c) solicited d) awarded

12. He's like a record that's got stuck in a ___________ .

a) pit b) trench c) groove d) hole

13. She's not interested in such a ___________ sort of job.

a) indignant b) inchoate c) soliciting d) mundane

14. He looked a bit ___________ at the ceremony in jeans and T-shirt.

a) inchoate b) incongruous c) indigenous d) incorporated

15. The whole system has to be ___________ and improved.

a) overmanned b) overwritten c) overhauled d) overdone

16. The armies agreed to a ___________ for Christmas.

a) treat b) treason c) trial d) truce

17. You look nice in that ___________ .

a) fitting b) outfit c) fit out d) outline

18. He was persuaded by a mixture of ___________ and threats.

a) perfidy b) cajolery c) fortitude d) gleaning

19. They have been charged for ___________ the accounts.

a) endearing b) enforcing c) fraying d) fiddling

20. He was one of the ___________ poets of his generation.

a) forebearing b) forerunner c) foremost d) foreseen

21. The MPs shouted ___________ after the Minister's statement.

a) productively b) derisively c) decisively d) scantily

22. The Seven Samurai were hired to protect the village from ___________ outlaws.

a) marauding b) meticulous c) soliciting d) benign

23. The 10 % rise in the cost of living is almost unbelievable until one looks at it in the ________ of world price rises.

a) significance b) relationship c) situation d) context

24. Her husband was always tired after doing such an __________ job.

a) arduous b) intriguing c) envious d) obvious

25. They are depressed because the latest unemployment figures are so __________ .

a) unhappy b) bleak c) lurid d) bitter