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Thirty-three sentence-completion questions on the Set 2 words, set in senior working life: four choices, one blank, context clues that settle it, and why the most tempting wrong answer fails.

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Practice deck · part of C-Suite Vocabulary · written against: The precise words of senior leadership: board, strategy and negotiation; extends the Willys app's Executive Register list; our own word selection. Updated 2026-10-10.

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  1. He never disputed the finance team's list of forty overdue supplier bills; he simply joked that small firms could wait, and that ______ attitude soon cost him his best suppliers.

    A) cavalier
    B) ambivalent
    C) skeptical
    D) apprehensive
    A) cavalier

    Joking that unpaid suppliers can wait treats a serious matter lightly: a cavalier attitude. Skeptical is tempting, but a skeptic doubts a claim and wants proof, and he never disputed the list.
    Judgment & Prudence
  2. Aiko proofread all three hundred pages of the merger filing herself and caught every stray comma, yet she never fussed over colleagues' drafts; she was simply ______.

    A) cursory
    B) meticulous
    C) cavalier
    D) exacting
    B) meticulous

    Catching every stray comma in three hundred pages takes a painstaking eye that lets no slip through: meticulous. Exacting is tempting, but an exacting person holds the people around her to a high bar, and Aiko never fussed over colleagues' drafts; cavalier fails because she took her own work seriously.
    Precision & Nuance
  3. When Nordhavn Shipping retired its last sailing ship after a hundred and ten years under canvas, rivals barely noticed, having done the same decades earlier, but inside the company the day felt ______.

    A) piecemeal
    B) momentous
    C) prohibitive
    D) seminal
    B) momentous

    Ending a hundred and ten years of sail marked a historic moment for everyone at Nordhavn: momentous. Seminal is tempting, but a seminal step breaks new ground that its field then builds on, and rivals had taken it decades earlier.
    Scale & Consequence
  4. Ellery Robotics has six customers, no sales team and slow growth so far; its floor-cleaning business is still ______, and the founders give it five years to prove itself.

    A) moribund
    B) burgeoning
    C) nascent
    D) ascendant
    C) nascent

    A business with six customers and no sales team has only just begun: it is nascent. Burgeoning is tempting because both describe young businesses, but burgeoning means growing fast, and Ellery's growth has been slow.
    Change & Trajectory
  5. The new mission statement is short and sincere, and nobody reads it two ways; it is simply ______, full of hopes for the future with no names, numbers or dates attached.

    A) ambiguous
    B) tautological
    C) convoluted
    D) woolly
    D) woolly

    A statement with no firm detail, all hopes and no names, numbers or dates, is woolly. Ambiguous is tempting, but an ambiguous statement allows two or more readings, and nobody reads this one two ways; it is just vague.
    Vagueness & Weak Thinking
  6. Half of the city's road budget is fixed by state formula; the other half is ______, and the mayor may spend it on whichever streets she judges most in need.

    A) discretionary
    B) contingent
    C) obligatory
    D) peremptory
    A) discretionary

    Money the mayor may spend as she judges, rather than by formula, is discretionary. Contingent is tempting, but contingent money is released only if some uncertain outcome goes the right way, and no condition is attached here.
    Scope & Restraint

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