Choosing the Right Word 1. That sum may seem (inconsequential/vulnerable) to you, but to me it is a great deal of money. 2. By concentrating on personal gain, he has (debased/disconcerted) both himself and the high office to which he was elected. 3. The starving children shown in the TV special looked more like (cadavers/stalwarts) than living creatures. 4. Whenever I go to a concert, I seem to spend half my time shushing the (crass/austere) boors who chitchat while the orchestra is playing. 5. As (restitution/infraction) for the damage he had caused to the family car, Phil promised to clean and polish it regularly for a full year. 6. Since my next paycheck was not to be had until the first of the month, I reconciled myself to living (austerely/inconsequentially) until then. 7. The woman is known and loved throughout the community for her many (redoubtable/ beneficent) acts on behalf of all types of unfortunates. 8. The principal (disconcerted/reproved) the entire student body for their discourteous behavior toward the guest speaker at the school assembly. 9. His (grandiose/beneficent) schemes for world conquest collapsed in a nightmare of military defeat and internal revolt. 10. In her clumsy efforts to be recognized as an “intellectual,†she (prates/desecrates) endlessly about matters she does not really understand. 11. All the power of Great Britain could not shake the American colonists in their (stalwart/ beneficent) opposition to measures that they considered unfair and tyrannical. 12. She is such a (redoubtable/crass) foe of the trite phrase that her students tremble lest her wrath descend on them for using a cliché. 13. The sale of so many great works of art to foreign collectors is, in my eye, little more than (pillage/mitigation) of our cultural heritage. 14. The master chef has (debased/concocted) a dessert that is so rich that it will be a menace to weight watchers throughout the country. 15. He is so (punctilious/austere) about every detail that it is said he irons his shoelaces before wearing them. 16. Her self-confidence is so unshakeable that she is simply not (grandiose/vulnerable) to “put-down†remarks that would annoy other people. 17. The fact that he did everything possible to help the poor child after the accident tends to (mitigate/desecrate) his responsibility for the tragedy. 18. It is a (desecration/restitution) of the memory of Lincoln to involve his name in defense of such racist policy. 19. Although his conduct may not have violated any law, I consider it a gross (cadaver/ infraction) of conventional ethical standards. 20. The conductor of the orchestra was so (desecrated/disconcerted) by the noisy audience that he stopped the performance and asked for quiet.
Words & Wordplay - 2 Answers
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1 :
1. inconsequential 2. debased 3. cadavers 4. crass 5. restitution 6. austerely 7. beneficent 8. reproved 9. grandiose 10. prates 11. stalwart 12. redoubtable 13. pillage 14. concocted 15. punctilious 16. vulnerable 17. mitigate 18. desecration 19. infraction 20. disconcerted
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1. inconsequential. 2.disconcerted. 3.cadaver 4. crass. 5. infraction. 6.austerely 7. beficient 8.reproved. 9.grandiose 10.prates 11. stalwart? 12. redoubtable 13.pillage 14.concocted 15. austere. 16. vulnerable 17.mitigate 18.desecration 19.infraction 20..disconcerted.
