Quiz created: 2020-07-24

Vocabulary Quiz 86

Instructions: Answer the multiple choice questions, guessing if necessary; then click on the "Process Questions" button at the end of the quiz to see your score in the adjacent message box. The program will not reveal which questions you got wrong, only how many points you have. Go back and change your answers until you get them all right. (The message box will rejoice at that point and the page will change color to show it is tickled pink.)

Points to note: (1) Questions with only one possible answer are one point each. (2) Questions with one or more possible answers (represented by check boxes) give a point for each correct answer, but also subtract a point for each wrong answer! (3) The program will not attempt to score your efforts at all if you have not tried at least half of the questions. (4) This quiz is for your own use only. No record of your progress is kept or reported to anyone.

1. “Diego Federici, 35, said that his mother had the coronavirus and died March 25 after doctors in a hospital in Treviglio, near Milam, decided not to INTUBATE her. His father, who was never admitted to an intensive care unit, had died four days earlier.” (2020-04-24, NYT via SDUT, p. A3) “Intubate” is a technical term in medicine meaning
to admit to a nursing facilities providing constant observation 
to insert a “tube” into a patient’s larynx or esophagus 
to keep a patient at a temperature one or two degrees warmer than normal 
to treat a patient without charging a fee 
add a patient to a waiting list, sometimes called a “tube” 
No Answer
2. “… green finance suffers from wooly thinking, marketing GUFF, and bad data. Finance does have a crucial role in fighting climate change, but a far more rigorous approach is needed, and soon.” (2020-06-20, The Economist, p. 9) The word “guff” often refers to insolent back-talk, but here in refers to
nonsense 
essentially corrected but unrealistically inflated claims 
profit-making 
hypocrisy 
positions taken in response to a secret bribe or pay-off 
No Answer
3. “The most persuasive calls for moral clarity today ARTICULATE something close to Lippmann’s original conception of objectivity.” 2020-07-18, The Economist, p. 68) As an adjective, “articulate” (pronounced art-TICK-yuh-luht) means able to say what one means, but here it is a verb (pronounced art-TICK-you-late) and it means
to recapitulate 
to contradict 
to state 
to condemn 
No Answer
4. “Such people continue to exist; Ms Applebaum herself is one of them, albeit among the less imperilled. Meanwhile, pandemics permitting, she and her husband will still throw parties … .” (2020-07-11, The Economist, p.  67) The word “albeit,” meaning “although,” is rarely used in spoken language, but when it is, it is pronounced
all-BEE-it 
ALL-bite 
all-BAIT 
all-BEET 
ALL-beet 
No Answer
5. “At the end of the year that left 38m people living with the [HIV] virus, of whom 25.4m were taking antiretroviral … drugs of one sort or another to keep their VIRAEMIA under control. But, though these numbers are huge, they are all heading in the right direction.” (2020-07-11, The Economist, p.  62) “viraemia” (or “viremia”) refers to
fear of contamination 
the presence of viruses in the blood 
the cost of medications 
side effects, especially the side effects of antiretroviral drugs 
No Answer
6. “Some suspect Mr Erdogan [Turkey’s president] may be preparing the ground for early elections, barely two years after the last ones. That would also explain the rise in repression following a HIATUS while Turkey has been dealing with covid-19.” (2020-07-11, The Economist, p. 40) A “hiatus” is
an acceleration 
a definition 
the articulation of a policy 
a pause 
a lockdown 
a full or partial economic collapse 
No Answer
7. “On Thursday, protesters gathered in Lansing to demand that Gov. Gretchen Whitmer reopen the state. Members of the crowd talked of conspiracy theories about the origin and treatment of the coronavirus, and DECRIED the development of vaccines to treat it.” (2020-05-15, NT via SDUT, p. A-3) “To decry” means to
denounce 
loudly advocate 
shout in loud confusion 
demand as a condition of withdrawing 
No Answer
8. “[Eudora] Welty’s SENSATE vocabulary, marched to her limitless availability to, and sympathy for, life densely and intimately lived, renders these powerful stories deeply humane and often uproarious. Nothing you’ll ever read is like them.” (2020-06-26, The Week, p. 22) Something “sensate” is
reasonable 
touchy-feely, promoting positive feelings 
extremely colloquial, larded with slang or obscenity 
formal or classical 
poetic 
perceived by the senses 
No Answer
9. “While crime rates are low and pay is rising, not everything is COPACETIC in the police world, and there’s increasing pressure for change.” (2020-06-10, SDUT,  B-6) “Copacetic” is a slang term meaning
increasing 
inconspicuous 
outrageous 
well planned 
stable 
satisfying 
No Answer

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