Choose the correct answer:

12. They changed the wording of the advertisement to make it more
a. edible
to women.
b. palatable
c. distasteful
d.heartrending
13. The members of the winning team acknowledged the cheers of their
a. indifferent
14. The
fans.
b. ardent
c. unremitting
d.lackadaisical
and detailed footnotes found in most scholarly
books are designed to the authors' sources.
a. inadequate b. nonspecific c. copious
d.meager
15. Under our system of justice, the mentally ill cannot be held repsonsible
for their
a. deviate
behaviour.
b. orthodox
c. conventional
d. law-abiding
16. People who suffer from serious eating disorders may soon become
woefully
a. corpulent
b. emaciated
17. An unusual degree of
political debate in an election year.
a. rancor
b. harmony
c. plump
d.rehabilitated
may creep into the tone of the
c. rapport
d.amity
18.Our constitutional system of checks and balances is designed to prevent
the
government.
a. unwavering
use of power by any branch of the federal
b. ostentatious c. renegade
d. capricious
19. Workers who are conscientious in the performance of their duties are, by
definition,
a. shiftless
20. There is something truly.
b. abhorrent
c. assiduous
d. vigilant
about the sight of failing
leaves in autumn.
a. poignant
b. bittersweet
c. unaffecting
d. insipid