Pretest 5A --  Academic Words V
amend, capacity, clause, compound, conflict, consult, enable, enforce, entity, facilitate, retain, fundamental, generate, logic, notion, orient, revenue, sustain, whereas, transit
  1. After the Constitution was written, it was ___________(ed) to add what we call the Bill of Rights.  a) sustain  b) clause  c) compound  d) amend  e) generate

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  3. The Bill of Rights lists what we now consider our ________________ rights associated with being free. a) logic  b) retain  c) enforce  d) notion  e) fundamental

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  5. The business spent too much money, and didn't have enough ____________, so it folded.  a) conflict  b) entity  c) logic  d) transit  e) revenue

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  7. After the snowstorm, it was difficult for the hikers to ___________ themselves; everything looked the same.  a) amend  b) revenue  c) orient  d) generate  e) enforce

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  9. A law is only effective if it is ____________(ed).  a) entity  b) enforce  c) generate  d) consult  e) amend


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  11. A paradox is a ___________(al) contradiction; it can't have a correct answer. a) logic  b) capacity  c) clause  d) logic  e) notion

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  13. Sue did her homework, and passed the test, _____________ Jimmy skipped his homework and failed.  a) transit  b) facilitate  c) whereas  d) sustain  e) conflict

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  15. He had the mental ____________ to do well, but he was lazy, and didn't use it fully.  a) logic  b) sustain  c) revenue  d) capacity  e) conflict

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  17. The lush garden was difficult to ____________ during the long drought, and most of it died.  a) generate  b) orient  c) amend  d) sustain  e) compound

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  19. Don't ______________ your problem by lying. That will only make the penalty worse.  a) generate  b) compound  c) transit  d) generate  e) enforce


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  21. Most of The Martian Chronicles focused on the ______________ of the Martian and Earth cultures.  a) logic  b) capacity  c) conflict  d) enable  e) fundamental

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  23. The counselor's job was to _______________ the meeting, and help things along.  a) facilitate  b) sustain  c) amend  d) generate  e) enforce

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  25. The corporation is a separate ____________ from the people who run it. a) enforce  b) entity  c) revenue  d) conflict  e) fundamental


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  27. A conjunction connects words, phrases, and ____________(s).  a) entity  b) notion  c) clause  d) compound  e) transit

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  29. If you don't know whether it's a word or not, ______________ your dictionary.  a) notion  b) enforce  c) generate  d) sustain  e) consult

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  31. If you make excuses for a person with destructive behavior, they call that ___________(ing).  a) logic  b) enable  c) sustain  d) conflict  e) generate

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  33. Some people still have the ______________ that the whole flight to the moon was a fake.  a) entity  b) clause  c) revenue  d) notion  e) capacity

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  35. Soon you will have to _________________ your own ideas for writing.  a) sustain  b) generate  c) consult  d) logic  e) orient

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  37. Somewhere, in _____________ between home and school, I lost my wallet.  a) orient  b) revenue  c) transit  d) conflict  e) generate

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  39. Even after he sold the business, he ______________(ed) the right to have a say in how it was run.  a) consult  b) sustain  c) amend  d) retain  e) generate