Advanced Composition for Non-Native Speakers of English


Vocabulary


The four sentences in this quiz are from a Washington Post article, Few Have Felt Beat of Roberts's Political Heart, by Michael Grunwald and Amy Goldstein. This article is about John G. Roberts, Jr., President Bush's recent appointment to the Supreme Court. A link to the original article is HERE, and a copy is HERE.

Directions: Please choose the best word to complete each quiz sentence.
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1: "They were very sincere about their beliefs. They were absolutely _____ the line and obey the rules."
toe
tow
2: "During the Reagan administration "he _____ over documents for minute errors."
pored
poured
3: "Roberts arrived in Cambridge in the fall of 1973 during the last _____ of the Vietnam protests on campus."
throws
throes
4: "He's a _____-laced, buttoned-down midwesterner."
straight
strait

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