Exercise
words in context
from the list below, supply the words needed to complete the paragraph. some
words will not be used
maelstrom
impotent
impediment
diaphanous
bestial
emendation
gloat
antithesis
labyrinth
loren, the new manager, is the
of compassion, just
yesterday, she fired two people because they were late to work once this
week. corporate headquarters, upset with declining sales, appointed loren
to replace and
manager who had been spotted on the golf
course during work hours one too many times.
loren's many changes and
to company guidelines caused
ain]
in both the warehouse and the salesroom. employees
faced evaluations and new instructions that drove many to resign; however,
it was all just a part of loren's plan. the people who quit, she reasoned,
were just
to meeting the expected monthly profit margin
loren spent the first two weeks familiarizing herself with the
- of shelves and palettes in the warehouse. shreds of textiles
littered parts of the packaging area; some were helty snippets of wool, and
others were
scraps of silk that hovered in the gust created
by passing forklifts. she occasionally stopped to introduce herself to
the workers, but she ceased her introductions after noticing the regular
look of
on workers' faces as they scrambled to look busy or
stumbled over the proper responses to her questions. after the first round
of resignations and firings, most of the workers were intimidated by loren's
management techniques