Pretest 7a. Academic Word List VII. adapt, advocate, comprehensive, comprise, confirm, contrary, convert, differentiate, dispose, phenomenon, extract, finite, hierarchy, innovate, prohibit, simulate, submit, successor, thesis, ultimate

1. After a long series of mistakes, the ______________ result was that the project failed.  a) adapt  b) simulate  c) comprehensive  d) ultimate  e) phenomenon

 

 

2. After moving to a new city, she had to _____________ to a new school, and new ways of doing things.  a) submit  b) adapt  c) simulate  d) innovate  e) differentiate

 

 

3. Your research paper should start with a ______________ that you will set out to prove or disprove through your research.  a) comprehensive  b) phenomenon  c) successor  d) hierarchy  e) thesis

 

 

4. The band was ______________(ed) of four members: bass, drums, and two guitars.  a) comprise  b) differentiate  c) advocate  d) comprehensive  e) dispose

 

 

5. Tomorrow we will have a _________________ exam that will test everything we should have covered by now.  a) comprise  b) ultimate  c) comprehensive  d) confirm  e) finite

 

 

6. There is only a ____________ amount of oil in the Earth; once it's gone, it's gone...  a) comprise  b) ultimate  c) comprehensive  d) confirm  e) finite

 

 

7. ...and at the rate we are _____________(ing) it from the ground, that won't be more than in about 100 years.  a) prohibit  b) extract  c) dispose  d) convert  e) innovate

 

 

8. She wasn't sure of the social _________________ at her new school; she could never remember which groups were supposedly cooler than others.  a) comprehensive  b) differentiate  c) successor  d) hierarchy  e) phenomenon

 

 

9. One of the reasons that you can't eat outside any more is that you seem unable to _____________ of your trash properly. a) prohibit  b) extract  c) dispose  d) submit  e) comprise

 

 

10. The president nominates a person to the Supreme Court, but the Senate has to _________ his choice.  a) comprise  b) contrary  c) comprehensive  d) confirm  e) submit

 

 

11. Reports of UFOs were a very common _____________ in the 1950's.  a) adapt  b) simulate  c) comprehensive  d) ultimate  e) phenomenon

 

 

12. Everybody agreed that his __________(ive) plan was the simplest, and yet the cleverest, of all. a) submit  b) adapt  c) simulate  d) innovate  e) differentiate

 

 

13. San Luis Obispo was one of the first cities in the country to _________ smoking indoors in bars and restaurants.  a) prohibit  b) extract  c) dispose  d) submit  e) contrary

 

 

14. To __________ partial weightlessness, astronauts often train underwater. a) prohibit  b) extract  c) dispose  d) simulate  e) innovate

 

 

15. The dying dictator has not yet named a ___________. Nobody is sure who will rule after he is dead.  a) comprehensive  b) phenomenon  c) successor  d) hierarchy  e) thesis

 

 

16. ___________ to popular belief, dogs do not really have a consciousness, and do not think as people do. Really, they don't. a) advocate  b) phenomenon  c) dispose  d) submit  e) contrary

 

 

17. I hope you know how to __________ a fraction into a decimal. Otherwise, you won't pass this class.   a) prohibit  b) extract  c) dispose  d) convert  e) innovate

 

 

18. If you are color blind, it usually doesn't mean that you see the world in black and white. It just means that you can't __________ between some colors, such as red and green.  a) submit  b) adapt  c) simulate  d) innovate  e) differentiate

 

 

19. Please _________ your 600 words by the end of the period tomorrow.  a) comprise  b) contrary  c) comprehensive  d) confirm  e) submit

 

 

20. Your lawyer is supposed to act as your ______________ in the courtroom, and plead your case.  a) advocate  b) phenomenon  c) successor  d) submit  e) contrary