1. Despite its initial disavowals, the company clearly intends to make moves.

(vow)
2. The majority of studies have been conducted on individuals whose transmission category is other than
intravenous drug use. (vein)
3. The writers of the hymns were great wordsmiths; they could be so concise and so eloquent in their
expression of truth. (word)
4. His explanation was wrapped up in so much technical verbiage that I couldn't understand it. (verb)
5. Punctuation in a sense corresponds to linguistic and paralinguistic features of spoken language such as
gestures, voice intensity, pitch, and intonation. (language)
6. He uses only email, never anachronistic regular mail. (chronic)
7. Young people felt locked out of politics, which led to apathy and disenchantment. (chant)
8. I could hear much confabulation coming from the dining room. (fable)
9. Cardiac disease can cause swelling of the ankles and engorgement of the jugular vein. (gorge)
10. I hope he didn't think I was being impertinent when I asked him about his private life. (pertain)
11. That all-consuming passion has warped her judgment and whetted her fancy as surely as if she had become
a drug addict. (consume)
12. Meteors and comets entering the earth's atmosphere compress the air and heat it to incandescence. (candid)
13. She was regarded as a contemporary role model amongst women, with dark looks, graceful manner, and a
habitually well-dressed and bejeweled appearance. (jewel)
14. It is not unusual for hunt saboteurs in their illegal activities to invite interference with hounds. (sabotage)
15. If the officer can reasonably effectuate the arrest with non-deadly force, he must do so. (effect)
16. Tell me the truth – do I look comical in this hat? (comedy)
17. The movie's special effects are impressive, but the atmosphere remains dispiritingly flat. (spirit)
18. Even in infinitesimal amounts, this poison can kill you. (infinity)
19. It is deplorable how lily-livered we are being when it comes to the safety of our children. (liver)
20. At the age of 17, she is already one of Hollywood's most sought-after actresses. (seek)
21. He is selling second-hand or shopworn / shop-soiled goods. (shop)
22. All around are snow-capped mountains which provide the walkers or nature lovers with magnificent
opportunities to savor the Alpine flora. (snow)
23. The investigator said the killings were the result of poor procedure by trigger-happy police rather than
premeditated murder. (trigger – meditate)
24. He was fined £40, with 28 days’ imprisonment if the money was not produced forthwith. (with)
25. I sublet my apartment to my sister, packed my van, and headed west. (let)
26. The family reunion was a celebration of consanguinity, with relatives from all corners of the globe in
attendance. (sanguine)
27. She said she had assisted in midwifery, accident and surgical cases. (wife)
28. The documentary's gut-wrenching portrayal of the refugees' struggles left the audience in tears. (gut)
29. In the woman, however, adulthood is punctuated by the menopause, which can have a deep psychological
effect. (pause)
30. The mayor threatened across-the-board spending cuts. (board)
31. Most recently, post[-]mortem surveys have been conducted with close relatives of deceased members of
the cohorts. (mortal)
32. I want to continue for a moment on his point that the railways are not going out after business, because it is
such unutterable nonsense. (utter)
33. It has turned a sad, downtrodden and declining industry into one of the great success stories of the past 20
years. (tread)
34. He criticized the draconian measures taken by the police in controlling the demonstrators. (dragon)
35. The band was indefatigably brisk and upbeat. (fatigue)
36. They have an almost fatalistic belief that ordinary people can't change anything. (fate)
37. No punitive action was taken against Dawkins after he smashed the backboard during warmups. (punish)
38. Autosuggestion is the power of mind over matter - if you convince yourself that you are cured, you will be.
(suggest)
39. You shouldn't be so diffident about your achievements - you've done really well! (confide)
40. The new office development is a(n) excrescence on the face of the city. (crescent)
41. The American landscape is being homogenized by malls and fast-food restaurants. (gene)
42. A lot of men would feel emasculated if they stayed at home while their wives went out to work.
(masculine)
43. The polymorphous / polymorphic nature of the software allowed it to adapt seamlessly to various
operating systems and devices. (morph)
44. Her outfit was the quintessential example of elegance and classic fashion. (essence)
45. To add verisimilitude, the stage is covered with sand for the desert scenes. (similar)
46. She had the effrontery to ask me for more money. (front)
47. The BBC reports from inside the battle-scarred city that local residents fear a massacre without greater
action to break the siege. (battle)
48. The nomenclature of science does not refer to definitive concepts: It is ceaselessly adjusted, completed,
varied. (name)
49. Her passion for art was incommensurable with her family's focus on practical careers. (measure)
50. The ill-omened prophecy cast a shadow over the kingdom, filling its people with dread and uncertainty.
(omen)
51. She guarded her heart impregnably, refusing to let anyone get close enough to hurt her again. (pregnant)
52. For certainly, once the chapel is built and consecrated, there will be pilgrims coming from all over
Normandy. (sacred)
53. He was magnanimous in defeat and praised his opponent's skill. (animate)
54. The company's stock prices reached stratospheric heights after the announcement of their breakthrough
product. (sphere)
55. Finally, hidden under a guide to hotel services in the desk drawer, we found a(n) loose-leaf binder with
instructions. (leaf)
56. The regional companies rely on customer service rather than on marketing newfangled products. (new)
57. He has the most telegenic face it has been our privilege to see, and it set my family arguing for a good half
hour after he finished. (television)
58. Over the millennia, cultures have changed very substantially as they have learned to cope with
environmental vicissitudes. (vicious)
59. The problem with any such guesstimate is that, of course, we are basing our calculations on a statistical
sample of one. (guess)
60. We cannot ride roughshod over the concerns of the local community. (rough)
61. Good soil moisture is required for seed germination. (germ)
62. It really is true that there is almost nothing as omnipresent in the history of mankind as war. (present)
63. Some companies in the industry are in trouble, but there are countervailing forces that will help others
survive. (avail)
64. The soldiers returned from the battlefield shell-shocked, struggling to cope with their traumatic
experiences. (shock)
65. The accusations were first set out in an internal memorandum to the chairman. (memory)
66. The tobacco companies got a severe dressing-down for promoting their products to an underage customer
base. (dress)
67. Ronald Reagan was deplored as a firebrand who might bring on a nuclear war. (fire)
68. Small companies are the mainspring of the British economy. (spring)
69. My sister's married but I'm still footloose and fancy-free. (foot – fancy)
70. And any attempt to live a righteous life with an evil conscience is foredoomed to failure. (doom)
71. The common denominator was that we had all worked for the same company. (name)
72. Dependent children are not usually covered by superannuation, although you should notify your employer
if you are the sole breadwinner. (annual – win)
73. Britain's nuclear power programme began with a lie: it was a smokescreen for the nuclear weapons
programme. (screen)
74. She accused her opponent of engaging in cheap political grandstanding in front of the TV cameras. (stand)
75. Food that is traditionally grown and free from the intrusion of technology will become increasingly
desirable among the cognoscenti. (cognitive)
76. It's a story about a wealthy English family and the neighbors, friends and servants who constellate around
them at their grand house in London. (star)
77. On this map, demarcations between regions are shown with dotted lines. (mark)
78. We must ensure that the system is as tamper-proof / tamper-resistant as possible. (tamper)
79. In private, he bitterly upbraided Brown for seeking to stymie his program. (braid)
 80. The decommissioning of weapons was a critical step in the peace process, aimed at reducing the influence
of paramilitary groups in the region. (commit – military)
81. The document was letter-perfect, free from any errors thanks to meticulous proofreading. (letter)
82. Her achievements were so impressive that no one could gainsay her qualifications for the job. (say)
83. Despite their innovative ideas, the startup was hamstrung by a lack of funding. (string)
84. For much of the past week I have had this dreadful, stomach-churning feeling of imminent disaster.
(stomach)
85. I have severe doubts about the utility of examinations on subjects which have been learned parrot-fashion.
(parrot)
86. We supply basic, no-frills tractors at low prices. (frill)
87. Inflation is still a millstone around the neck of British businesses. (stone)
88. Soames was getting impatient with his daughter’s constant nitpicking of his cooking. (pick)
89. They were dismayed to find out they had wasted their nominations on a no-hoper. (hope)
90. Watching the children together gave reassurance that childhood is not all one-upmanship and go-for-the-
jugular. (man)
91. The studios soft-pedal the rivalry between their animation departments. (pedal)
92. High school students should not be spoon-fed so many facts and figures that they forget how to make
deductions on their own. (feed)
93. She looked absolutely dumbstruck / thunderstruck / awestruck when I told her what had happened.
(strike)
94. Some critics say that 21st modern Vietnamese literature portrays a generation of angst-ridden youth.
(angst)
95. I don’t think Tom’s getting too much sleep lately. His eyes are terribly bloodshot. (blood)
96. The vainglorious actor constantly sought attention and praise from everyone around him. (glory)
97. Domestic markets in Vietnam suffer from a(n) misallocation of resources, leaving many potential
productivity gains unrealized. (locate – real)
98. He was notorious for his unstatesmanlike dirty tricks when dealing with people who failed to toe his line.
(state)
99. It is envisaged the draft being submitted today will make for a(n) anti-corruption administration free of
such potential problems. (corrupt)
[Link] had even been passed in some authoritarian societies limiting families to two children, but their
enforcement had proved impracticable. (author – practice)
extra – 101–250
[Link] interrupted him in midstream to ask a question. (stream)
[Link] a background of corporate greed and malfeasance, a renewed focus on transparency and
accountability seems to be permeating the business world. (feasible)
[Link] a ghost is a(n) disembodied being, it is still a person. (body)
[Link] study suggests that there may be greater comorbidity between the two conditions than has been
acknowledged. (morbid)
[Link] misbegotten father spent most of his adult life in prison. (get)
[Link] children too much attention when they misbehave can be self-defeating. (defeat)

[Link] was discovered to have been expropriating company funds. (proper)

[Link] the audition, the actors were asked to give a(n) extempore / extemporaneous performance. (temporary)
[Link] veins showed through her translucent skin. (lucid)
[Link] machine must be expeditious, executing as fast as a mower is able to cut. (expedite)
[Link] of resources has been a perennial problem since the beginning. (annual)
112.I'm not against vivisection, but obviously we all want to avoid animals suffering unnecessarily. (section)
[Link] administration announced that the U.S. would no longer produce anti[-]personnel landmines or
acquire new ones, including replacing expiring munitions in its stockpile. (person)
[Link] hopes to parlay her success as a model into an acting career. (lay)
[Link] is another vast country which shares a single time zone — but it spans far more longitudes, which
has resulted in some quirky schedules. (long)
[Link] lack even the power to rebel against egocentric / egoistic and tyrannical supervisors. (ego)
[Link] cold winter has led to a larger-than-expected drawdown on oil stocks. (draw)
[Link] architects pay lip service to the idea that good design can and should ennoble the lives of average
people not blessed with bountiful wealth. (noble – bounty)
[Link] government tried to create make-work jobs, but unemployment remained stubbornly high, and
inflation rose. (work)
[Link] everyone is so willing to exculpate the colonial powers. (culprit)
[Link] moms are sometimes accused of forcing their children to go to too many after[-]school activities;
overparenting them in concerted cultivation rather than letting them enjoy their childhood. (school –
parent)
[Link] expressed pearl-clutching horror that she was an unmarried mother. (pearl)
[Link] water project started several years back never fructified because of corruption and mismanagement.
(fruit)
[Link] an austere man of unquestioned moral uprightness / rectitude, Nava inspired deep devotion in those
who worked for him. (right)
[Link] graduation ceremonies are often little more than dry, cliché-ridden speeches. (cliché)
[Link] ambassador was granted plenipotentiary powers to negotiate the treaty on behalf of his country.
(potent)
[Link] are two antithetical world views: the world of the believer and the world of the non-believer.
(thesis)
[Link] average, not surprisingly, marriages last longer and are more stable than unmarried cohabitation.
(habit)
[Link] is a(n) eco-warrior on a mission to protect the environment. (war)
[Link] majority of infected persons are asymptomatic and unaware of their condition. (symptom)
[Link] moved forward with a referendum in which voters overwhelmingly backed seceding from Ukraine
and joining Russia. (refer)
[Link] voters are naturally very risk-averse and will not rush headlong into a change of government.
(risk – head)
[Link] that moment, the town was doomed to become a huge, sprawling, one-story conurbation, hopelessly
dependent on the automobile. (urban)
[Link] 250,000 refuseniks have not paid the tax. (refuse)
[Link] priest is a representative of his people, making atonement for their sin. (one)
[Link] will be well-nigh impossible to raise that amount of money. (near)
[Link] brainwash consumers into buying things they don’t need. (brain)
[Link] movements often drive social change by mobilizing ordinary people to take action. (grass)
[Link] was the prototypical Romantic hero. (type)
[Link] the librettist for the new musical, he was responsible for writing the script and the lyrics for the songs.
(library)
[Link]'s lionization of firefighters means that their faults are sometimes overlooked. (lion)
[Link] are all dressed in naval uniform, wearing the insignia of officers—captains, commanders and there is
a rear-admiral. (sign)
[Link] if they are essentially unobservable, incorporeal divine beings still fall well within the range of
normal human sense perception. (corpse)
[Link] contains two elements: the probability of occurrence and the disutility or harm that might befall.
(utilize)
[Link] learning entails a hands-on approach to learning that moves away from just teachers
imparting and transferring their knowledge to students. (experience)
[Link] associated infection can be excruciating, chronic and, in some cases, life-threatening. (crucial)
147."A millionaire!" she said incredulously. "Like hell he is!" (credit)
[Link] dancers complained about the maladroitness of their clumsy partners. (adroit)
[Link] are as likely to be as selfish or narrow-minded as other groups and as hidebound by
tradition. (hide)
[Link] gained a reputation as a rigid ideologue with an underdeveloped social conscience, a rawhide foreign
policy and a dangerously simplistic world view. (idea – simple)
[Link] commentary was so irreverently funny. (revere)
[Link] leads to an inability to communicate. (article)
[Link] town is a(n) godforsaken place at night. (god)
[Link] measured the land to ensure the fences were equidistant from each other. (distance)
155.A(n) pyromaniac might hoard matches and lighters, burn holes in fabric, rugs, or furniture and set fire to
pieces of paper or other [in]flammable materials. (pyre – flame)
[Link] facility desalinates seawater to produce fresh water for drinking. (salt)
[Link] majority felt exposed, crestfallen, and humiliated. (crest)
[Link] gives a lot of money to charity, but personal aggrandizement is his motive. (grand)
[Link] charming, he could also be egocentric to the point of megalomania. (mania)
[Link] rely on hydraulic pumps to ensure that crops receive adequate water throughout the growing
season. (hydro)
[Link] career took off like a jet-propelled rocket after he landed the lead role in a blockbuster film. (jet)
[Link] are so brain-dead / feather-brained! Surely you checked when you booked the holiday? (brain)
[Link] gave the room a quick once-over before the guests arrived. (over)
[Link] subject has been debated until it is threadbare, and today we have had repetitions of many arguments
for and against the nationalization of steel. (thread)
[Link] 1932 election represented a watershed in American politics. (water)
[Link] nuclear non-proliferation is good enough for the rest of the world, why is it not good enough for us?
(prolific)
[Link] boat had been freshly repainted in bright colors for the occasion, and beside it stood five weather-
beaten sailors. (weather)
[Link] great desideratum of millions of American families is getting accepted into, and graduating from, a
good college. (desire)
[Link] wants to piggyback on the phenomenal success of the TV series. (pig)
[Link] say reviewers are pigeonholing their studies and making unfair judgements about potentially useful
research. (pigeon)
[Link] companies will upgrade or purchase teleconferencing equipment so they can keep in touch with
employees, suppliers and customers when air travel is not possible. (confer)
[Link] this time of stress there are benighted districts, suffering heavily from the toll of unemployment and left
in a very parlous state. (night)
[Link] is no feeling of decline or even world-weariness in the trumpeter's playing, and his solos are full of
constant invention and enthusiastic ideas. (weary)
[Link] said that although the gameplay translates well into the multiplayer, the entire experience may be too
chaotic to enrapture a large audience. (rapture)
[Link] wants to become a great chef, but he is very impulsive and scatterbrained and often gives in to
his urges. (scatter)
176.I've never been very money-minded - I leave all my business affairs to my financial adviser. (money)
[Link] their work on the car, their hands were besmeared with dirt. (smear)
[Link] fundamental concept of disease has served for generations as the lodestar of preventive medicine.
(lode)
[Link] novellas stress the disenfranchisement of women by patriarchal ideals that restricted women's
autonomy. (franchise)
180.A small misunderstanding during introductions and progressively bigger lies to cover the initial lies lead to
a(n) side-splitting laugh riot. (side)
[Link] was spotted looking teary-eyed after the show. (tear)
[Link] is a stuntman game show that consists of drivers competing in death-defying stunt challenges and
winning fast races to stay on the show. (die)
[Link] conservatives have scorned this as being what they call a(n) watered-down version of the traditional
concept of civil human rights. (water)
[Link] is clear that people want a more up-to-date and varied repertoire of songs to sing. (repertory)
[Link] said that the Students' Union would no-platform / deplatform any groups advocating anti-Semitism or
homophobia. (platform)
[Link] overseas has been, and always will remain, one of the keystones of our national prosperity. (key)
[Link] two-year course in art and design has turned him into a well-groomed young man, interested in
fashion and photography. (groom)
[Link] boats surrounded the whales, drove them into nets, where they became enmeshed and were rendered
helpless by harpoon thrusts. (mesh)
[Link] economy appears to have begun recovering, but businesses don't expect consumers to return from their
spendthrift ways anytime soon. (spend)
[Link] is most likely that the critics are either nescient or oblivious of the subject. (science)
[Link] up in the tough neighborhoods of the city made her more streetwise than most kids her age.
(wise)
[Link] release, looking like your bog-standard application form, detailed the new appointee's biographical
details. (standard)
[Link] suggestions are good indeed, but they don't quite dovetail with the rest of the plan. (tail)
[Link] occasion will be a star-studded affair, a day when red joins with blue to take on the pride of
Manchester. (star)
[Link] predicted backlash from true-blue supporters has never materialized (blue)
[Link] you cannot tell long jokes without getting lost, stick to one-liners. (line)
[Link] Hope would keep his audience laughing with an endless stream of jokes and wisecracks. (crack)
[Link] had been on tenterhooks all night, expecting Joe to return at any moment. (hook)
[Link] company's overarching goal is to achieve sustainability in all its operations. (arch)
[Link] novelist once worked as a pen-pusher / paper-pusher in a government office before finding success
with his books. (push)
[Link] is still addressing rallies in his usual tub-thumping, arrogant way. (tub)
[Link]'s a(n) preposterous claim that the government is trying to poison its citizens. (post)
[Link]'s difficult for any of us to change who we innately are. (native)
[Link] will be criticized for being careless with his gun, but that's all he'll get, a(n) ticking-off.(tick)
205.I believe that school journeys to activity centers and outward-bound courses are very important. (out)
[Link] has gained a worldwide following, and has taken some decidedly different roles to break free
from the teen heart[-]throb image. (heart)
[Link] villages were in rural and impoverished environments, and there was neither on-site electricity nor
functional sanitation facilities. (poor – sane)
[Link] is no general obligation to mark all foreign-made chinaware and earthenware or other manufactured
goods with an indication of their foreign origin. (earth)
[Link] we can't do this movie for $5 million, the studio is not going to green-light it. (green)
[Link] soldiers had their arms taken away and their vehicles were commandeered and used to build
barricades. (command)
[Link] and recreation must be built coterminously with housing and infrastructure. (term)
212.I really enjoy antiquarianism and finding something amazingly old that's been hidden away. (antique)
[Link] are employed to go out and obtain information, and that makes the opponent set up counter-
espionage organizations to catch them. (spy)
[Link] used his oratorical gift in hundreds of speeches around the country. (oral)
[Link] was a lot of finger-pointing and blaming of other people, which was counterproductive. (finger)
[Link] baby being stillborn or dying soon after birth is a risk, albeit a diminishing one, to women having
postpartum sterilization. (bear – sterile)
[Link] happens, for example, when representation is no longer merely mimesis but a more than adequate
substitute, when paper becomes more or better than gold? (mime)
[Link] linen trade is an excellent pedagogical device to introduce students to the remarkable complexities of
transatlantic trade. (Atlantic)
[Link] is a mixture between boys who do things for devilment / devilry and boys who commit criminal
offenses in desperation due to home circumstances. (devil – despair)
[Link] its rough-hewn reputation, the street is not a particularly dangerous spot these days. (rough)
[Link] gave a self-deprecating shrug. He is always making his own achievements seem unimportant. (pray)
[Link] of the time local rulers were more or less free from the rule of kings: they were semi-autonomous
but they were not fully independent either. (auto)
[Link] of us are naturally ambidextrous but in terms of karate technique this can be achieved through
training. (dexterity)
[Link] is against any kind of aromatic oils, vapor rubs, or smelly nasal decongestants like menthol or
eucalyptus. (congest)
[Link] is evanescent, but writing leaves footprints. (vanish – print)
[Link] governor was usually circumspect when dealing with the media. (spectacle)
[Link] ancient civilization's mastery of metallurgy allowed them to create intricate bronze sculptures and
tools. (metal)
228. The explosion had all the hallmarks of a terrorist attack. (mark)
[Link] delivery men just left the furniture in my front yard. I was flabbergasted. (aghast)
[Link] Charlie Hebdo is considered by Islamic State to be a blasphemous magazine. (blasphemy)
[Link] jihadis saw themselves at the vanguard of a war that many among them believed had been
preordained in the formative days of Islam. (guard – order)
[Link] leaders have made fresh overtures to the president to reach a deal to unite against the state. (overt)
[Link] is at loggerheads with many of his own party over the issue of taxation. (head)
[Link] is barely alive; his breathing is very slow and shallow, and he is comatose. (coma)
[Link]'s effervescent personality and self-confidence are also echoed throughout the play. (fervent)
[Link] thought he might like landscaping and enrolled in a two-year program at a nearby college in
horticulture. (culture)
[Link] the main and most pleasant surprise was the sense of camaraderie among climbers in the Alps.
(comrade)
[Link] from conflagrations in buildings, environmental fires can occur. (flagrant)
[Link], his somewhat iconoclastic stance has not always received universal commendation but it has
sparked off a lively and healthy international debate. (icon)
[Link] regime has shown its largess[e] by promising to double monthly state salaries. (large)
[Link] new technology served as the linchpin / lynchpin in the company's strategy to streamline operations
and increase efficiency. (pin)
[Link] considerations adumbrate the general argument for the role of consent in the justification of
authority. (umbrella)
[Link] are often apocryphal stories, manufactured by people who are trying to make a bad case stand up.
(crypt)
[Link] punctilious editor checked every detail of the manuscript before sending it to print. (point)
[Link] charm and charisma were not natural but rather a carefully constructed artifice designed to win people
over. (art)
[Link] events have raised more than $900,000 for worthy philanthropic organizations throughout greater Los
Angeles. (anthropology)
[Link] was considerable pressure for actions against them from a sanctimonious middle class, some of
whose members held extraordinary delusions. (saint)
[Link] have always understood the importance of avoiding interregnums: the king is dead, long live
the king! (reign)
[Link] tried to organize a debate, and invited the most virulent protesters to come on stage and present their
case. (virus)
[Link] a coherent set of policies to persuade the electorate, the Republicans have resorted to
sloganeering and empty rhetoric. (elect – slogan)