504 Essential Words slide 21 Lesson 6 Learn the words and do the ex-es Fill in the Blanks and Choose the correct one

Fill in the Blanks
Place one of the new words in each of the blanks below.

1. Each of our workers is trained to give your car a thorought, comprehensive examination.
2. Tom Jones was undoubtedly the best singer in the choir when he was young.
3. He could approach the problem from all angles.
4. Mrs. Spector always wanted to be popular with her friends.
5. Why did you neglect cleaning your room today?
6. The employee bought his boss a birthday present.
7. Rocco’s only defect was that he walked with a slight limp.
8. None of the other poker players suspected that their friend would defraud them in order to win.
9. When Cynthia realized that nobody liked her, she knew she had been deceived.
10. I could detect from the tone of his voice that he was in a bad mood.
11. His client was happy with the work Terence had been doing for him.
12. I do not want to do anything less that a thorought, comprehensive job on my term paper.

Choose the Correct Word
Circle the word in parentheses that best fits the sense of the sentence.

1. Many of those popular songs will become tomorrow’s Golden Oldies.
2. My boss insists that all of the employees punch a time clock each morning.
3. I detected a hint of sarcasm in your seemingly innocent reply to the sales clerk who apologised for the long lines.
4. As the car approached the bridge, we could see the dense for coming in off the water.
5. Our weekly vocabulary quizzes are comprehensive, including not only that week’s new words, but words we learned in the past weeks as well.
6. Even small defect in an electric appliance can be the possible cause of a fire.
7. Ms. Rodriguez undoubtedly felt she had been unjustly accused of showing favoritism, but most of her students felt otherwise.
8. Her thorough description of the missing bracelet helped police find it.
9. We’ve all learned that if you neglect your teeth, you will surely develop dental problems of one kind or another.
10. It is probably still true that the majority of Americans do not think our political leaders would knowingly defraud the government.
11. To deceive someone into thinking you are a friend when you are only along for the ride is selfish and unfeeling.
12. Since your livelihood depends on pleasing them, clients, like costomers, are always right.