Vocabulary Word Power Worksheet-40

Word Power Worksheet – 40

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Choose the correct word for the given clue.

1. "Dangerously lacking in stability; based on uncertain or unproved premises"

(a) proceeded   (b) prospect      (c) expostulate (d) precarious

2. "explosion"

(a) perplexingly                            (b) condone

(c) detonation                               (d) holography

3. "to approach the end; to become less"

(a) wane             (b) pluckily        (c) heredity       (d) annals

4. "crack or narrow hole"

(a) apparition   (b) crevice         (c) sagacity        (d) brink

5. "a piece of wood or stone placed beneath a door; an entrance or a doorway"

(a) curmudgeon                           (b) solemnize

(c) cumulus                                   (d) threshold

6. "unsparing or harsh treatment of others; strict"

(a) vehemently (b) beleaguer    (c) severe           (d) ascetic

7. "Yellowish discoloration of the whites of the eyes and skin"

(a) genes            (b) destitute      (c) jaundice       (d) stenography

8. "to return like for like, especially evil for evil; to pay back"

(a) withhold      (b) sanguine      (c) retaliate       (d) misanthrope

9. "a poison that damages biochemical processes"

(a) pollutant      (b) obsequious (c) threshold     (d) draught

10. "one who is seemingly indifferent to or unaffected by joy, grief, pleasure, or pain"

(a) battery                                      (b) misdemeanour

(c) stoic                                           (d) typography

11. "Looking back on; contemplating"

(a) canard                                      (b) diatribe

(c) retrospective                           (d) jostle

12. "lacking necessary things; poor"

(a) epigram       (b) destitute      (c) reins             (d) brazen

13. "a woman regarded as scolding and vicious"

(a) harridan      (b) sanction       (c) concussion  (d) vehemently

14. "foam or churn"

(a) precipice     (b) typography (c) dissuade      (d) froth

15. "an exaggerated or grotesque imitation."

(a) retrospective                           (b) travesty       

(c) surmount                                 (d) cunning

16. "temperament; general frame of mind"

(a) disposition  (b) addle            (c) eddy              (d) desolate

17. "the lowest point of a wave"

(a) anxiety         (b) trough          (c) obscurity     (d) transient

18. "tall, flat bottom anvil shaped clouds that produce thunderstorms"

(a) cumulonimbus                       (b) robust

(c) silhouette                                 (d) genes

19. "method of movement for solar energy"

(a) preserve       (b) disclose        (c) minute         (d) radiation

20. "lively party or game"

(a) frolic             (b) avarice         (c) ultimatum   (d) vendetta

21. "anything that appears unexpectedly or in an extraordinary way"

(a) apparition   (b) void              (c) stringent      (d) foreboding

22. "any group or collection, usually desirable"

(a) bevy              (b) malignant   (c) lethargy       (d) calligraphy

23. "Showing great malevolence, disposed to do evil; cancerous"

(a) ruse              (b) derision       (c) malignant    (d) solemnize

24. "not occupied"

(a) implored     (b) consume      (c) obliquely      (d) vacant

25. "beset with difficulties"

(a) azure            (b) toehold        (c) beleaguer    (d) verge

26. "person who is unable to sleep"

(a) jute               (b) implored     (c) envelop        (d) insomniac

27. "intense storm system with heavy rain and high winds blowing in a circular pattern"

(a) cyclone         (b) endeavour   (c) toehold         (d) ascetic

28. "a person who flatters or defers to others for self-serving reasons; flatterer; fawner"

(a) consequence                            (b) countenance

(c) toady                                         (d) deploy

29. "approach an enemy stealthily"

(a) crevice         (b) sanction       (c) destitute       (d) stalk

30. "low area on Earth's surface that contains an ocean"

(a) basin            (b) crevice         (c) lethargy       (d) ostentatious

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