ANSWER KEYS

1. Many compositions for harpsichord, organ and ............................ and a second treatise on harmony
remain in manuscript.
A. chalice B. cacography C. confidante D. carillon
2. He was a man of refreshing ............................ Once, after being interviewed by a young lady from
a newspaper, he sent her around to talk with his psychiatrist, to make sure that she had the whole
story.
A. countenanceB. condolence C. chalice D. candor
3. The child broke into a ............................ of tears when his brother took away the toy from him.
A. carillon B. clique C. cataract D. chicanery 
4. The Battle of Gettysburg was a scene of dreadful .............................
A. calamity B. carnage C. catharsis D. celerity
5. The event was so poorly organized that our whole evening easily bordered on a .............................
A. culmination B. chalice C. calamity D. catastrophe
6. Jack Ma last appeared publicly at a conference where he ............................ China's financial
regulatory system in front of a room of high-ranking officials.
A. castigated B. coped C. coverted D. contrived
7. He admired his wife's ............................ in talking about what went wrong with his first marriage.
A. cacophony B. countenance C. candor D. celerity
8. Not just any old saying, ............................ is one of the most powerful philosophical ideals to have
emerged in Western history.
A. catnap B. carpe diem C. cruciverbalist D. couch potato
9. Faced with insurmountable adversities, the patriots had to ............................ to the enemy forces.
A. contrive B. capitulate C. culminate D. crave
10. Their strategy for stopping the ............................ in India failed in the very beginning.
A. carnage B. calibre C. carillon D. cessation
11. Society has its forms of ............................, with protests and revolutions being symbols of stress
created by inefficient governments.
A. criterion B. conjecture C. catharsis D. contretemps