Adhere
1. The ________ they felt for each other was obvious to everyone who saw them.
A) affectionB) adherenceC) sensibilityD) sensitivity
2. More than 85 percent of French Canada's population speaks French as a mother tongue and _______ to the Roman Catholic faith.
A) catersB) adheresC) ascribesD) subscribes1
3. E-mail is a convenient, highly democratic informal medium for conveying messages that _______ well to human needs.
A) adheresB) reflectsC) conformsD) satisfies
4. If you want to set up a company, you must ______ with the regulations laid down by the authorities.
A) complyB) adhereC) /confirm/iD) accord
5. Both parties promised to ______ the contract to be signed the following day.
A) keep withB) tangle2 withC) adhere toD) devote to
6. At the party we found that shy girl ____ her mother all the time.
A) depending onB) coinciding withC) adhering toD) clinging to
Alternate
1. Professor Smith and Professor Brown will ____ in presenting the series of lectures on American literature.?
A) alterB) alternateC) substituteD) exchange
2. Military orders are ____ and cannot be disobeyed.
A) defectiveB) conservativeC) alternativeD) imperative3
3. The manager tried to wave aside these issues as _______ details that would be settled later.
A) versatileB) trivialC) preliminaryD) alternate
4. In our highly technological4 society, the number of jobs for unskilled worker is ______.
A) shrinkingB) obscuringC) alteringD) constraining5
Ascend
1. Hill slopes are cleared of forests to make way for crops, but this only _______ the crisis.
A) acceleratesB) prevailsC) ascendsD) precedes
2. All the people in the stadium cheered up when they saw hundreds of colorful balloons ____ slowly into the sky.
A) ascending6B) elevatingC) escalatingD) lingering
3. The children cheered up when they saw hundreds of colorful balloons _______ slowly into the sky.
A) floatingB) raisingC) heavingD) ascending
4. We managed to reach the TOP of the mountain, and half an hour later we began to ___.
A) ascendB) descendC) declineD) plunge7
Consolidate
1. I found it difficult to _____ my career ambitions with the need to bring up my children.
A) consolidateB) amendC) reconcileD) intensify8
2. His successful negotiations9 with the Americans helped him to _________ his position in he government.
A) contriveB) consolidateC) heaveD) intensify
3. The presidential candidate ______ his position by winning several primary elections.
A) enforcedB) enrichedC) intensifiedD) consolidated10
Confidential
1. We'll be very careful and keep what you've told us strictly________.
A) rigorousB) confidentialC) privateD) mysterious
2. For a particular reason, he wanted the information to be treated as ________.
A)assuredB)reservedC)intimateD)confidential
