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Vocabulary Word Power Worksheet-34

Word Power Worksheet – 34

 

Choose the correct word for the given clue.

  1. "to return"

(a) remorse       (b) minute         (c) reciprocate  (d) precipice

 

  1. "put on a hood"

(a) beleaguer    (b) concussion  (c) void (d) cowl

 

  1. "skilful or clever"

(a) toady            (b) derision       (c) Uruguay      (d) cunning

 

  1. "large landmass that is like another continent only smaller"

(a) beleaguer                                 (b) froth            

(c) subcontinent                           (d) poignant

 

  1. "a parish priest"

(a) preserve       (b) derision       (c) vicar             (d) deign

 

  1. "Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food"

(a) manifesto    (b) voracious    (c) rancour        (d) hue

 

  1. "address someone urgently and constantly in an effort to get information"

(a) voracious     (b) eddy             (c) apparition   (d) ply

 

  1. "highest point"

(a) drivel            (b) pinnacle      (c) spectre         (d) dismal

 

  1. "demand vehemently"

(a) expostulate (b) pall               (c) inaudibly     (d) exultant

 

  1. "To tell something in confidence; to put into another's keeping"

(a) commend    (b) confide         (c) robust           (d) silhouette

 

  1. "an action calculated to frustrate an opponent or gain an advantage indirectly or deviously"

(a) genetics                                    (b) ostentatious

(c) pacific                                       (d) ploy

 

  1. "facial expression"

(a) shimmer                                   (b) countenance

(c) expostulate                              (d) withhold

 

  1. "pursuit of or devotion to pleasure, especially to the pleasures of the senses."

(a) photosynthesis                        (b) teak    

(c) vindictive                                 (d) hedonism

 

  1. "causing fear or dread"

(a) graphic        (b) covetous      (c) formidable  (d) belligerent

 

  1. "characteristic of anyone who lives with strict self discipline"

(a) disclose        (b) monograph (c) breaker        (d) ascetic

 

  1. "flash"

(a) scintillate    (b) ponderous   (c) formidable  (d) deign

 

  1. "flagrant and insolent audacity; shameless; having a loud, usually harsh sound"

(a) brazen         (b) furtively       (c) Harpy           (d) dissuade

 

  1. "to feel sorry for"

(a) harridan      (b) repent          (c) piquant        (d) intricate

 

  1. "imposing rigorous standards; severe"

(a) belligerent   (b) stringent      (c) torrent          (d) eddy

 

  1. "ocean wave that collapses and tumbles forward as it approaches the shore"

(a) peevish         (b) azure            (c) breaker        (d) slough

 

  1. "the second-smallest country in South America"

(a) syllabication                            (b) Uruguay

(c) withhold                                   (d) severe

 

  1. "to put a heavy load on"

(a) obsequious  (b) encumber   (c) hearkening  (d) indiscriminate

 

  1. "any plant that has flowers and stinging hairs that can cause skin irritation on contact"

(a) nettle                                         (b) termagant  

(c) cumulonimbus                        (d) intricate

 

  1. "any dark shape or figure seen against a light background"

(a) azure            (b) vacant          (c) froth             (d) silhouette

 

  1. "measure of amount of solids, mostly salts, dissolved in seawater"

(a) beleaguer    (b) lurid             (c) salinity         (d) maw

 

  1. "not able to be heard"

(a) patent           (b) contagion    (c) supposition (d) inaudibly

 

  1. "lower oneself; to deal with people in a patronizingly superior manner"

(a) voracious     (b) condescend (c) covetous       (d) concussion

 

  1. "sharp, quick sensitive"

(a) acute            (b) contagion    (c) trifle              (d) destitute

 

  1. "rejoicing; celebration"

(a) fusillade       (b) condescend (c) exultation    (d) cumulus

 

  1. "movement; rhythmic beating"

(a) pulsation     (b) contagion    (c) exalt              (d) fluently

 

Answers:

1-c;  2-d;  3-d;  4-c;  5-c;  6-b;  7-d;  8-b;  9-a;  10-b;  11-d;  12-b;  13-d;  14-c;  15-d;  16-a;  17-a;  18-b;  19-b;  20-c;  21-b;  22-b;  23-a;  24-d;  25-c;  26-d;  27-b;  28-a;  29-c;  30-a