Pretest 10A - Academic Words X.
adjacent,  albeit, colleague, compile, conceive, forthcoming, incline, intrinsic, invoke, integrity, nonetheless, notwithstanding, panel, persist, pose, scenario, suspend, undergo, manual, reluctance
  1. The disposal of spent nuclear fuel __________(es) a serious problem.  a) invoke  b) persist  c) suspend  d) pose  e) undergo


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  3. The high level of toxic radioactivity ____________(s) for thousands of years.  a) persist  b) undergo  c) pose  d) suspend  e) forthcoming

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  5. A ___________ of experts agreed that the new medicine was safe.  a) colleague  b) panel  c) scenario  d) compile.  e) ideology

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  7. After it was caught cheating customers, the company had to _____________ operations in the U.S.  a) persist  b) undergo  c) invoke  d) conceive  e) suspend

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  9. When asked to testify, he _____________(ed) his Fifth Amendment right not incriminate himself.  a) conceive  b) undergo  c) invoke  d) pose  e) incline.

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  11. After listening to your arguments, I'm ____________(ed) to agree that you have too much home work.  a) conceive  b) incline  c) intrinsic  d) invoke  e) reluctant

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  13. Paper money has no _____________ value. It's only valuable for what it represents.   a) intrinsic  b) forthcoming  c) nonetheless  d) notwithstanding  e) adjacent

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  15. When Mom asked me about what happened, I was not exactly ____________ with a lot of information.  She had to drag it out of me.  a) incline  b) persist  c) forthcoming  d) invoke  e) reluctance

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  17. It was difficult to ______________ why he did what he did. I guess we'll never understand it.  a) conceive  b) persist  c) invoke  d) albeit  e) compile

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  19. Before the game, he tried to visualize how he might react to different __________(s).  a) conceive  b) colleague  c) ideology  d) incline  e) scenario

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  21. His ___________(s) at the university had a lot of respect for the old professor.  a) ideology  b) panel  c) colleague  d) scenario  e) integrity

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  23. They knew him as a man of honesty and ______________.  a) ideology  b) integrity  c) reluctance  d) colleague  e) undergo

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  25. Most people complete their 120 Seconds with great _____________, but some actually look forward to it.  a) ideology  b) integrity  c) reluctance  d) colleague  e) undergo

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  27. He had to _____________ a series of painful injections after he was bitten by the groundhog.  a) pose  b) suspend  c) persist  d) conceive  e) undergo

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  29. The fish caught in the stream ______________ to the Springfield nuclear plant had three eyes.  a) manual  b) adjacent  c) nonetheless  d) compile  e) forthcoming

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  31. During her research, she _____________(ed) a list of thousands of toxic waste spills.  a) conceive  b) adjacent  c) pose  d) compile  e) notwithstanding

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  33. When the automatic door release didn't work, he had to do it ____________(ly) with the emergency release.  a) manual  b) adjacent  c) nonetheless  d) compile  e) forthcoming

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  35. His grade improved in the second semester, ____________ only slightly.  a) conceive  b) persist  c) invoke  d) albeit  e) compile

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  37. _____________ their inexperience, the new band was an immediate success. a) albeit  b) adjacent  c) suspend  d) compile  e) notwithstanding

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  39. Even though he found out about the surprise party, _____________ he was very happy about it.   a) intrinsic  b) forthcoming  c) nonetheless  d) notwithstanding  e) adjacent