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Answers to June 28, 2011 Vocabulary Test
Answers:
1: b 2: a 3: c 4: c 5: c 6: d 7: a 8: b 9: d 10: b
Rate Yourself:
1 to 2 correct:
Um, not exactly Rhodes quality.
3 to 5 correct:
You crammed four years into six.
6 to 7 correct:
Well, at least you made it in four years.
8 to 9 correct:
Cool! You'll find a job - soon, I bet!
All 10 correct:
Recruiters are banging on your door day and night.
Merriam-Webster's note on "graduate" as a verb: In the nineteenth century the transitive sense (Yale graduated him yesterday) was prescribed; the intransitive (I graduated from Yale) was condemned. The intransitive prevailed nonetheless, and today it is the sense likely to be prescribed and the newer transitive sense (She graduated high school) the one condemned. All three are standard. The intransitive is currently the most common, the new transitive the least common. So, repeat after me: "I graduated from college [whenever]."
