Exercise 7

Read the sentences below and decide which of these words best fits each space. You may need need to change the form of the word.

redolent; incapable; precluded; rite; confer; rendering; correlation; prevail; officiating; deploy; criterion; reminiscent; clarified; obey; bestow.

2 - Magda is ____________ rendering the book into Polish from English.

3 - Could you ____________ clarify the first point please? I don't understand it completely.

4 - There's little ___________ correlation between success in life and a university degree.

5 - This is a strange custom that still ____________ prevails .

6 - Students should ____________ obey their teachers without question!

7 - A priest ____________ officiated at the wedding.

8 - Gosia's an excellent mathematician, but as a lecturer she's totally ___________ incapable .

9 - He ___________ deplyed a powerful argument against the proposal.

10 - Szczecin University ____________ conferred an honourary degree on Lech Wałęsa.

11 - The Professorship was ______________ bestowed upon him in 1999.

12 -The success of the school should not be judged by financial ___________ criteria alone.

13 - You have to go through an initiation ___________ rite before you're accepted into the Tolkien society.

14 - This room is _____________ redolent of the the smell of the old library at Trinity College.