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

Vocabulary -- rash (adj), punctilious, sardonic, unimpeachable, decorum, breach, quell, vigilant, docile, implacable

1. She was a very __________ student; every paper was perfect, with everything in its proper place. POS:      Synonym:
2. I heard that fact from a(n) _____________ source, so I really believe it. POS:      Synonym:
3. (2) In Japan, it would be a ___________ of ___________ for the students to not bow to their teacher. POS:      Synonym:                   POS:      Synonym:
4. Don't do anything __________ which you might regret later. POS:      Synonym:
5. The principal had trouble __________(ing) the noise at the assembly. POS:      Synonym:
6. The formerly wild animal was now so __________ that you could pick it up.  POS:      Synonym:
7. I begged my mom to change her mind and let me go to the party, but she was _____________. POS:      Synonym:
8. A lookout must always be _____________, and not let anything slip past him. POS:      Synonym:
9. "I just love all the homework I have this week," he said _____________(ally). POS:      Synonym: