Vocabulary Builder Course 6

Lesson 32:

Choose one of the two words provided to correctly complete each sentence.


1.	She was so __________ we were worried about her being bored in school.
		A)	aesthete
		B)	precocious


2.	His visual _______ definitely lessened as he got older.
		A)	finesse
		B)	acuity


3.	Jimi Hendrix was a ___________ on the guitar.
		A)	virtuoso
		B)	connoisseur


4.	His quick, ______ fingers made short work of the knot.
		A)	savant
		B)	deft


5.	She was such a/an _____________ individual that, even though he himself was very smart, he was intimidated by her.
		A)	perspicacious
		B)	adept


6.	It takes a lot of _______ to bring out the subtle flavors of the different foods in a dish.
		A)	finesse
		B)	deft


7.	He considered himself to be such a movie _____________ that he refused to watch anything with Kevin Costner in it.
		A)	connoisseur
		B)	perspicacious


8.	He was such an ________, even as a child, that she always knew he would grow up to be an artist.
		A)	acuity
		B)	aesthete


9.	She was the family ________, going on to get her PhD when nobody else in her family had even finished high school.
		A)	virtuoso
		B)	savant


10.	He had gotten so __________ at it that he would do it with his eyes closed just to make it interesting.
		A)	adept
		B)	precocious