Example:

The court heard that the four defendants had been
... into making a confession.

name=q>coerced
duressed
type=radio value=3 name=q>compulsed

1. The sales director said that the decline in
the company's sales last month was just a temporary ......
.

abnegation
type=radio name=q1> aberration

apprention

2. If teachers continue to pass students, who
have little knowledge in the subjects they are studying, then the whole
system of education in Poland will eventually be ....... .

demassed
type=radio name=q2> debased

debrowed

3. The house and garden had a ......
look.

forsaken
type=radio name=q3> foresook

forsook

4. Simon has a rather ....... manner which I find
offputting.

haughty
type=radio name=q4> intuitity

primafity

5. He manages to combine two strands of the
English character which is ....... conservatism with flashes of
eccentricity.

innate
type=radio name=q5> inmate

inscrute

6. Example sentences help convey the ....... of
meaning of a word.

nuptials
type=radio name=q6> nubiles

nuances

7. Surely the answer's obvious - or are you
being deliberately ....... .

obtrude
type=radio name=q7> obviate

obtuse

8. Her ....... for disappearing for hours
at a time is worrying her parents.

pennant
type=radio name=q8> penchant

penitent

9. Anyone with a ....... of common sense could
have seen that the plan wouldn't work.

modicum
type=radio name=q9> modulum

modisem

10. Harold has a steady job, a house in a
respectable neighbourhood and leads a very .......
life.

stagnate
type=radio name=q10> stale
staid

Now check your score.

You have scored out of 10.