NLN PAX Word Knowledge Practice & Review Guide
c. a confection
c. meandering
1. The chef produced a sweet for dessert. He made
a. a nutrient
b. a condiment
c. a confection
d. soda bread
2. The happy couple wandered aimlessly across the
meadow. The couple was
a. foraging
b. interloping
c. meandering
d. trespassing
3. They remodeled the office and ordered new furniture, d. renovate
draperies, and rugs as part of a plan to
a. consecrate
b. habitate
c. revise
d. renovate
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4. The rules of behavior that people are expected to fol- a. etiquette
low in any group are called
a. etiquette
b. inititaion
c. socialism
d. elitism
5. The host offered them a quaff. He offered a c. drink
a. canape
b. sandwich
c. drink
d. cake
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6. When the undercover agent traveled, he concealed his c. incognito
identity. He traveled
a. inexorably
b. insensate
c. incognito
d. indiscreetly
7. Her position seemed dangerously uncertain. It a. precarious
seemed
a. precarious
b. unassailabe
c. racalcitrant
d. intractable
8. Some medications alleviate pain. Alleviate means d. lessen
a. increase
b. prevent
c. deaden
d. lessen
9. The class learned how to type a letter with a postscript. c. an added note
A postscript is
a. a salutation
b. an attention line
c. an added note
d. an inside address
10. A tapeworm lives in the digestive system of its host c. parasite
and feeds there. The host organism is harmed by this
relationship. The tape worm is a
a. predator
b. culprit
c. a confection
c. meandering
1. The chef produced a sweet for dessert. He made
a. a nutrient
b. a condiment
c. a confection
d. soda bread
2. The happy couple wandered aimlessly across the
meadow. The couple was
a. foraging
b. interloping
c. meandering
d. trespassing
3. They remodeled the office and ordered new furniture, d. renovate
draperies, and rugs as part of a plan to
a. consecrate
b. habitate
c. revise
d. renovate
, NLN PAX Word Knowledge Practice & Review Guide
4. The rules of behavior that people are expected to fol- a. etiquette
low in any group are called
a. etiquette
b. inititaion
c. socialism
d. elitism
5. The host offered them a quaff. He offered a c. drink
a. canape
b. sandwich
c. drink
d. cake
, NLN PAX Word Knowledge Practice & Review Guide
6. When the undercover agent traveled, he concealed his c. incognito
identity. He traveled
a. inexorably
b. insensate
c. incognito
d. indiscreetly
7. Her position seemed dangerously uncertain. It a. precarious
seemed
a. precarious
b. unassailabe
c. racalcitrant
d. intractable
8. Some medications alleviate pain. Alleviate means d. lessen
a. increase
b. prevent
c. deaden
d. lessen
9. The class learned how to type a letter with a postscript. c. an added note
A postscript is
a. a salutation
b. an attention line
c. an added note
d. an inside address
10. A tapeworm lives in the digestive system of its host c. parasite
and feeds there. The host organism is harmed by this
relationship. The tape worm is a
a. predator
b. culprit
