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Ingenious / Ingenuous - Exercise 1

Direction: Choose the correct word in each sentence below. When you have finished, click on the "Check My Work" button to view the answers.

1. Having found a quick and easy way to do this difficult job, Rebecca is quite an (   ) person.

2. I have discovered an (   ) device!

3. That is a totally (   ) way to complete the assignment with little effort.

4. Some people say she is innocent, but I only find her (   ).

5. That man is one of the most honest and (   ) that I have ever met.

6. The lawyer was (   ) as he he confidently led the jury to his point of view.

7. It's too bad that his client was such an (   ) man.

8. Nathanial's (   ) hunches help him to find good parking spaces in the city.

9. You found the speaker (   )? I found him only pretentious.

10. For a convicted murderer, the woman seemed strangely (   ).

             

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