Try this MC Question:
Archimedes’ work on the problem of finding the area under a parabola was a ________ to Leibniz’s and Newton’s later discovery of calculus, a branch of mathematics so _________ that nearly all students now study it.
A. monument…intransigent
B. postscript…widespread
C. precursor…ubiquitous
D. prologue…logical
E. hindrance…common
Piece of cake? Try this one then:
The language of the bureaucrats and administrators must needs (sic) be recognized as __________ of legal parlance, for there is no other way to explain its pedantic, __________ and pernicious style.
A. an outgrowth…pervicacious
B. a visitation…rotten
C. a rejection…vitriolic
D. a permutation…heedless
E. a divagation…rapturous
FYI: There are at least 500,000 words in English. Winston Churchill was famous for his particularly large (active) vocabulary – he used 60,000 in his writing, and the average high school graduates in the States recognizes around 50,000 words, while the average college graduate recognizes around 70,000 (passive vocabulary).
