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Practice questions

1. His reckless spending habits eventually led him to financial ruin; he was notoriously ( ).

   • profligate
   • parsimonious
   • frugal
   • thrifty

2. She approached the delicate negotiations with remarkable ( ), never losing her composure.

   • equanimity
   • agitation
   • anxiety
   • turmoil

3. The novelist's prose, though elegant, was often criticized as ( ), full of clichés and predictable turns of phrase.

   • inventive
   • original
   • innovative
   • hackneyed

4. ( ) the report is accurate, immediate action must be taken.

   • Whereby
   • Albeit
   • Notwithstanding
   • Insofar as

5. The critic's review was so ( ) that the playwright never recovered from the public humiliation.

   • flattering
   • scathing
   • complimentary
   • laudatory