This exercise tests your range of vocabulary.

1. If you are in influential person, you will have lots of people ……………………… at your feet.

a) falling
b) sweeping
c) fawning
d) kneeling

2. We will have to find some way of …………………… the negotiations, if we want to win our objective.

a) finessing
b) turning
c) dealing
d) handling

3. She showed great …………………… and finesse in dealing with the challenge.

a) tact
b) trick
c) ability
d) power

4. She ………………….. her inheritance and married outside her parent’s faith.

a) forfeited
b) fined
c) lost
d) deprived

5. I couldn’t help admiring the ………………….. with which she faced the obstacles.

a) stability
b) equanimity
c) wit
d) ability

6. His stance on this issue is ………………… and we don’t know how he is going to react.

a) clear
b) transparent
c) equivocal
d) oblique

7. When pressed for a firm answer, she ……………………

a) surrendered
b) gave up
c) equivocated
d) resisted

Answers

1. If you are in influential person, you will have lots of people fawning at your feet.
2. We will have to find some way of finessing the negotiations, if we want to win our objective.
3. She showed great tact and finesse in dealing with the challenge.
4. She forfeited her inheritance and married outside her parent’s faith.
5. I couldn’t help admiring the equanimity with which she faced the obstacles.
6. His stance on this issue is equivocal and we don’t know how he is going to react.
7. When pressed for a firm answer, she equivocated.