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English Grammar / Incomplete Sentences / Advanced level # 55 (Answer Keys)
High School Vocabulary
A1 The result of the election didn't give either candidate a clear majority but in the end the leader of the
opposition agreed to step down and accede to the wishes of the electorate.
answer: (c) accede
A2 The sound of the waterfall goes on all day and night and in the end the incessant noise gets on your nerves.
answer: (d) incessant
A3 I apologized for what seemed like a deliberate act of rudeness but I explained that it had been purely
accidental and an inadvertent action on my part.
answer: (b) inadvertent
A4 Although it's a complicated subject the professor managed to make it all totally clear and lucid by her delivery.
answer: (a) lucid
A5 When you take a party of tourists round a famous city there are always those who loiter and keep everybody
else waiting.
answer: (c) loiter
A6 Before she knew what had happened a man suddenly fell on her lunging across and stealing her handbag.
answer: (d) lunging
A7 There was absolutely no call for him to criticise her so cruelly and in almost a malicious manner.
answer: (b) malicious
A8 There was absolutely no question about it he was the proverbial idiot such as you'd find in one of those old
farces.
answer: (c) proverbial
A9 You'll soon get used to his funny ways as it's one of the quirks of his personality.
answer: (d) quirks
A10 He didn't really give speeches because he used to scream and shout and you could hear him raining a
hundred meters down the road.
answer: (b) raining
