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Quiz on Last Month's Words

Here are the words that were featured last month:

Panglossian

acolyte

wistful

eclectic

statuesque

pecuniary

For each of the eight examples below, select a word from the above list that best fits the blank. Then check your answers at the end. Note that the correct answer could be any of the word forms that were featured - example: wistful, wistfully, wistfulness, and so on.

  1. Arnold is only about five feet, eight inches in height, yet in this picture he looks ........ tall. Is that because of how you positioned the camera?
  2. Do you still have ........ moments when you wish you had accepted that offer from IBM instead of joining Compaq where you, along with thousands of others, were subsequently laid off after its acquisition by H-P?
  3. Unlike you guys, I do buy into Tracy's optimism. I think the scenario she has just depicted is pretty realistic; it is not Pollyannaish or .........
  4. In my opinion, the main reason why our firm keeps making strategic blunders is this: Our CEO, Robert, is surrounded by a bunch of ........ who are not particularly good at telling him "You screwed up on this one."
  5. While having lunch in the restaurant downstairs, I couldn't help staring at this woman who was sitting at a distant table, because she looked very sad and lonely. There was such an air of ........ about her.
  6. Both of my employees are having big-time problems at home. But unlike Joel, who is deep in debt because of his child's medical bills, Kathy's troubles are not of a ........ kind. She is having difficulties managing her teenager who has just dropped out of high school.
  7. The judge reprimanded the lawyer for "putting his ........ interests above those of his client and thus compromising his ethical obligations."
  8. With regard to overhauling America's brand of capitalism so that it works for EVERYONE, I like the ........ approach of Anand Giridharadas. He recommends an amalgam of what's worked best for other successful and robust capitalist economies, such as those in Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and the so-called Asian "tigers."

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Answers:

1. statuesquely    2. wistful    3. Panglossian   4. acolytes

5. wistfulness    6. pecuniary   7. pecuniary    8. eclectic

 

Give yourself one point for each correct answer.

A score of 8 = excellent; 7 = very good; 6 = not bad; 5 or less = you may want to revisit last month's edition.

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