Vocab Quiz 5

I hope I can do this everyday. From now on, I'm going to try to make a list with 25 words each. I'm not sure if I can do it EVERYDAY because of all the busy works and competitional math preps I have to do but hey, you never know.. You never know.. Most sources of these sentences are Sparknotes's 1000 Most Frequently Appearing SAT List.

Matchings...
1. While eating dinner with the adults, the _____ youth did not speak for fear of seeming presumptuous.
2. In today's cynical media age in which a public figure's every expression and minutest gesture is scrutinized, successful politicians become skilled at _____ing: masking their true feelings and beliefs to suit the views of their audiences.
3. Fearful of an IRS investigation, Paul tried to _____ all incriminating evidence from his tax files.
4. After the Watergate scandal, almost any story written about President Nixon sought to ______ him and criticize his behavior.
5. Ironically, many great historians who _____ the use of art as unfit for the science of history themselves show great artistic skill in the treatment of their material.
6. Irene's arguments in favor of abstinence were so _____ that I could not resist them.
7. Only the aging actor's biggest fans were able to overlook that his heart was no longer in his ______ performances, and that he relied on histrionics when nuanced portrayals were required.
8. My brother launched into a ______ against my arguments that capitalism was an unjust economic system.
9. The effects of Brian Regan's brilliant comedy routine are cumulative as well as _______; they sneak up on an unsuspecting audience, slowly gathering an overwhelming comic force.
10. Jack ran away as soon as his father found out, knowing he would be ______ed for his unseemly behavior.
11. Blake's ____ behavior made it impossible to stay angry at him.
12. With remarkable ______, the wise old man predicted and thwarted his children's plan to ship him off to a nursing home.
13. Although I begged for hours, Mom was _______ and refused to let me stay out all night after the prom.
14. The _____ whale floated, wallowing in the water for hours.
15. Britain's __ over its colonies was threatened once nationalist sentiment began to spread around the world.
16. I don't see how I could ever work for a company that was so cold and ____ to me during my interviews.
17. By dismissing his opponent's view as _______, the speaker hoped that the audience would fail to notice that his own position was anything but plausible.
18. In the summer months, the great heat makes people ______ and lazy.
19. The _______ old man sat in the park all day, tripping unsuspecting passerby with his cane.
20. Because virtually everyone in Palm Beach is a tourist, the population of the town is quite ________.
21. Several of Shakespeare's sonnets explore the _______ of a lovely young man.
22. Polly reacted to any bad news with a ______ smile and the chirpy cry, "When life hands you lemons, make lemonades!"
23. Although many people enjoy romantic comedies, I usually find them _______ and shallow.
24. The ____ child said he would have 12 scoops of ice cream or he would bang his head against the wall until his mother fainted from fear.
25. Though he was widely respected for his mathematical proofs, the _______ genius was impossible to live with.

Choices
A. dissemble
B. torpid
C. transient
D. sagacity
E. hegemony
F. pulchritude
G. repudiate
H. inimical
I. insidious
J. intransigent
K. polemic
L. languid
M. maudlin
N. spurious
O. perfunctory
P. mercurial
Q. cogent
R. contrite
S. vilify
T. vituperate
U. sanguine
V. inexorable
W. malevolent
X. diffident
Y. expunge