He was so inept that he could not be trusted with the simplest of tasks.

Inept most nearly means incompetent. Someone who is inept has a very low threshold for what they are capable of handling.

She was adamant, so we had no choice but to do it her way. Someone who is adamant about something is convinced that their way or opinion is correct, and is unyielding on this point.

Your computer is ten years old? Throw that away, it is obsolete. Something that is obsolete is out of date and is not current.

Though it is ten years old, that does not mean the computer is broken. And while it may be foreign, that is not a reason to throw it away.

We can infer from the sentence's context that we need to pick out a word that means something like "excited." "Mendacious" is an adjective that means "not telling the truth; lying," so it can't be the correct answer because it's not close in meaning to "excited." While "bored" and "angry" both describe emotions, neither emotion fits the context of the sentence, so neither word can be the correct answer. "Fervent," an adjective that means "having or displaying a passionate intensity," best fits the context of the sentence, so it is the correct answer.

We can infer that because the old man "began to tell stories of the many adventures he had had [at the beach] as a child," that he was feeling nostalgic. So, we need to pick out an adjective that means something like "nostalgic." "Reminiscent" is an adjective that can mean "absorbed in or suggesting absorption in memories" when describing a person or his or her manner, so "reminiscent" is the correct answer because it best fits the sentence's context.

We can infer that because the sentence is describing a king missing his crown and cape, we need to pick out an adjective that means something like "king-like," because without his crown and cape, a king would not look as king-like as he would when wearing those items. While "proud" might seem like a potentially correct answer choice, "regal" is the best answer choice because "regal" specifically means "of, resembling, or fit for a monarch, especially in being magnificent or dignified." Because "regal" includes a royal connotation and best fits the context of the sentence, it is the correct answer.

We can infer that because the three works being described by the word in the blank "have been published . . . since [the author] died last year," we need to pick out a word that means something like "done after someone's death." "Posthumous" is an adjective which means "occurring, awarded, or appearing after the death of the originator," so "posthumously" is the correct answer because it best describes how the three books were published after their author's death.

The sentence tells us that Jack “refus[es] to listen to any else’s ideas or proceed with a project unless the group follows his recommendations exactly,” so we can infer that we need to pick out an adjective to describe Jack that means something like “bossy.” That means that “timid” cannot be the correct answer, because “timid” is an adjective that means “lacking courage or confidence” and clearly would not make sense as describing Jack in the sentence, because it is an antonym of the word for which we’re looking. “Domineering,” however, is an adjective that means “arrogantly willful,” and because “domineering” best describes Jack’s reputation in the sentence, “domineering” is the correct answer.

"Tedious" means dull or monotonous. The intern was bored by working on this one task for days, so the best answer choice is "tedious."

"Affable" means friendly and easy-going. If the doctor is "calm" and "immediately sets his patients at ease," the best answer choice to describe him is "affable."