1) The salesman was pleasant and _______ in his dealings with people. a) affable b) polyglot 2) There are people who, in the depths of some ___________ despair or rage, desire to exit the world in a hail of bullets. a) gloss b) ineffable 3) Because Orthodox Jews respect the ____________ name of the supreme being, they write G-d rather than use the complete word. a) ineffable b) valediction 4) Chile's return to democracy was preceded by 17 years of ____________ rule. a) malediction b) dictatorial 5) Having clear ________ is very important for a public speaker.  a) diction b) jursidiction 6) The president's ________ was that the first priority of the government must be the health of the people. a) interdiction b) dictum 7) I could not get the _______ from the commercial out of my head. I kept humming it over and over. a) ditty b) indite 8) The government issued an ____________ banning public demonstrations a) indict b) edict 9) Despite considerable evidence, a grand jury refused to _________ him. a) indict b) affable 10) The author decided to ________ a new novel about the Civil War in the U.S. a) ineffable b) indite 11) The government has committed itself to the ___________ of drug shipments across the southern border. a) interdiction b) dictatorial 12) A judge said that the Federal government had no _________ over the case being tried in a particular state. a) diction b) jurisdiction 13) The two old witches were screaming ____________ at one another. a) maledictions b) dictum 14) I bid you all a fond _________, but I must move on to my next adventure. a) ditty b) valediction 15) The problems of nuclear power have been ________ over in the past. a) glossed b) edict 16) The chapter acts as a helpful _______ on Pynchon's general methods. a) indict b) gloss 17) My professor is something of a _________ - she speaks seven languages. a) polyglot b) interdiction

Lesson 7 Vocabulary in context

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