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
   
   

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

 

 

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

 

 

4. 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

 

 

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

 

 

6. 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

 

 

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

 

 

8. 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

 

 

9. 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

 

 

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

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

 

 

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

 

 

13. 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

 

 

14. 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

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

17. 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

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

20. 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