C-Suite Vocabulary — Set 3: Practice flashcards
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Thirty-four sentence-completion questions on the Set 3 words, set in senior working life: four choices, one blank, context clues that settle it, and why the most tempting wrong answer fails.
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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Approving the new supplier without the usual safety audit was neither fair to the other bidders nor wise, but it was ______: the audit would have taken a month, and the packing line had to start on Monday.
A) circumspect
B) politic
C) judicious
D) expedientD) expedientJudgment & Prudence
Skipping the audit was unfair and unwise, yet convenient for the purpose at hand, starting the packing line on Monday: expedient. Politic is tempting, since both serve your own ends, but a politic move is wise in the circumstances, and this one was not wise. -
While the other consultants listed sixty small faults in Talbot Rail's timetable, Yuki's ______ note skipped them all and named the one that mattered: at 8:15 every weekday, three trains were due on the same single-track bridge.
A) granular
B) exhaustive
C) incisive
D) meticulousC) incisivePrecision & Nuance
Skipping the small faults to name the one that mattered goes straight to the heart of the problem: Yuki's note was incisive. Meticulous is tempting because the note found the fault that mattered, but a meticulous note takes pains over every fine point and lets no slip through, and Yuki's skipped sixty small faults; granular and exhaustive fail for the same reason. -
Forty years on, retired Aldmere Aviation engineers can still describe the morning their first jet rolled out of the hangar, down to the weather and the band's opening tune; for every one of them it is an ______ memory.
A) irreparable
B) inexorable
C) irreversible
D) indelibleD) indelibleScale & Consequence
A morning still remembered in full detail forty years later is impossible to forget: an indelible memory. Irreversible is tempting because both suggest permanence, but irreversible describes a change that cannot be undone, and what the engineers keep is a memory they cannot lose. -
One red circle on the planners' ridership chart for the Penhallow Valley bus line marks the ______: in the month the new hospital opened, a slow climb of a few dozen extra riders a month became a climb of several hundred.
A) zenith
B) plateau
C) nadir
D) inflectionD) inflectionChange & Trajectory
The month the hospital opened is the turning point where the trend changed pace, the climb suddenly running faster: an inflection. Plateau is tempting because both mark a change in growth, but a plateau is where growth levels off, and here it sped up; nadir and zenith fail because ridership was climbing on both sides of the circle. -
Garrick's welcome talk for Marlowe Insurance's new hires was short, simple and full of exact times, room numbers and firm rules, yet ______: he mixed up the two floors, jumped between them mid-sentence and mentioned the badge rule only as everyone left.
A) muddled
B) woolly
C) nebulous
D) convolutedA) muddledVagueness & Weak Thinking
A talk that mixes up its two floors and saves the badge rule for the very end is jumbled and hard to follow: muddled. Convoluted is tempting, but a convoluted talk is hard to follow because it is overly complicated, and Garrick's was short and simple; woolly and nebulous fail because it was full of exact figures and firm rules. -
The pallets Ostler Freight rents out are ______: each is built to one standard size and grade, so a customer who returns a different pallet from the one it took owes nothing extra.
A) fungible
B) granular
C) nominal
D) discreteA) fungibleScope & Restraint
Pallets that can stand in for one another with no loss of value are fungible. Discrete is tempting, since each pallet is a separate thing, but discrete stresses that things are separate and distinct, and the point here is that any one can replace any other.
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