Style
Generally, these types of adjectives are hyphenated when they appear before a noun.
Compound adjective/compound
The investment strategy of spreading risk across multiple asset classes is commonly known as:
Diversification
What date (month and year) did Vanguard commence operations?
May 1, 1975
What was the name of a 90's comedy TV show, based in Manhattan, about 6 people's shared life experiences?
Friends
Zeal
Eagerness in pursuing something; fervor
Wordswabbing lists several acronyms we don't have to spell out on first mention. Name one.
IRS, IRA, FINRA, SEC
Which bonds are referred to as tax-exempt?
Municipal bonds
What year was the Vanguard ship logo removed?
2020
This movie has the highest lifetime gross of all time.
Avatar
Inchoate
Partly or imperfectly formed, early in its existence or operation
According to Wordswabbing, we only initial cap job titles in body copy when they:
Directly precede the crew member’s name
If short-term bonds and long-term bonds have similar yields, the yield curve is said to be:
Flat
In what year did Vanguard launch its institutional retirement services division?
1989
Who is the oldest Kardashian sister?
Kourtney
Diaphanous
Characterized by fineness; translucent
What’s the difference between compared with and compared to (according to Wordswabbing)?
To compare with is to discern both similarities and differences between things. To compare to is to liken things or to note primarily similarities between them.
With more volume than the stock market, this the largest financial market in the world.
Foreign exchange market
In what year did Vanguard first go global?
1996
This Swedish singing group won the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest with "Waterloo."
ABBA
Nuncupative
Oral, not written
Wordswabbing guidelines tell us not to use an en dash for a minus sign. Instead, we should use character ____
2212
These derivatives contracts are similar to futures contracts but settle at the end of the contract rather than daily.
Forward/forwards
In 1999, Jack Bogle asked the Vanguard board of directors to waive a rule for him so that he could stay on the board. Which rule was that?
The mandatory retirement age
Name the 3 divas who make up the 90s Vocal Trinity.
Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Celine Dion.
This word starts with the letter ‘s’ and describes a word that is long-winded or polysyllabic.
Sesquipedalian