Vocabulary Word Power Worksheet-52

Word Power Worksheet – 52

Choose the correct word for the given clue.

1. "rude and clumsy in behavior, ill-mannered"

(a) turbulent     (b) truncate       (c) hardy            (d) boorish

2. "an attractive force that exists between all objects"

(a) rant                                           (b) levity

(c) bathysphere                            (d) gravity

3. "someone from the old Soviet Union; skilled horsemen"

(a) Cossack       (b) elemental    (c) drawl            (d) barometer

4. "going against majority"

(a) dissentient  (b) fluctuation  (c) subside         (d) levity

5. "fierce; savage"

(a) ferocity        (b) rout              (c) vocal             (d) heterogeneous

6. "give permission"

(a) consent        (b) enigma        (c) gargoyle       (d) emit

7. "outermost boundary of plant and bacterial cells that is made of cellulose."

(a) malign         (b) cell wall       (c) ruse               (d) cardinal

8. "evil or wicked"

(a) vociferous   (b) sinister         (c) evict              (d) exposition

9. "capable of being touched"

(a) biopsy                                       (b) palpable     

(c) dethronement                         (d) expedient

10. "a small amount"

(a) traverse                                    (b) meager

(c) forethought                              (d) mantle

11. "a formal speech, esp. one given on a ceremonial occasion"

(a) cultivated    (b) covet             (c) oration         (d) affluence

12. "something useful for attaining a particular result"

(a) expedient    (b) masonry      (c) aplomb        (d) morbidity

13. "branch out in lines from a centre"

(a) perpetuate  (b) garish           (c) radiate         (d) edifice

14. "A sensitive instrument that records magnetic data; used to describe earthquake magnitude"

(a) truncate       (b) dandy           (c) edict              (d) Magnetometer

15. "quality of being alive"

(a) vitality          (b) clandestine (c) microbe       (d) century

1-d;  2-d;  3-a;  4-a;  5-a;  6-a;  7-b;  8-b;  9-b;  10-b;  11-c;  12-a;  13-c;  14-d;  15-a