Vocabulary Word Power Worksheet-48

Word Power Worksheet – 48

Choose the correct word for the given clue.

1. "to gather together; to put together or fit together"

(a) efficacious                               (b) assemble    

(c) dethronement                         (d) palpable

2. "Any object shot or thrown through the air"

(a) velour           (b) Projectile     (c) cajole            (d) savory

3. "to summon by magical or supernatural power, to influence or effect by or as if by magic"

(a) vocal                                         (b) conjure                 

(c) dethronement                         (d) vivacious

4. "a particular word, phrase, or expression, one that is used by a particular person or group"

(a) locution                                    (b) humility

(c) personification                        (d) chagrin

5. "continual, irregular changes"

(a) seismograph                           (b) tussle

(c) fluctuation                               (d) humility

6. "Full of spirit; lively"

(a) traverse       (b) vivacious     (c) covey            (d) vestige

7. "propriety and good taste in behaviour or appearance"

(a) covet             (b) decorum      (c) vociferous    (d) vivid

8. "Full of spirit; lively"

(a) timorous                                   (b) indefatigable

(c) vivacious                                   (d) sham

9. "a very great number.  Countless, innumerable."

(a) opaque         (b) embellish    (c) rainforest    (d) myriad

10. "pretentious, showy finery, elegance, ostentation."

(a) frippery       (b) dexterous    (c) teeter            (d) vocal

11. "to tempt; lure"

(a) entice                                        (b) physiological

(c) phantasm                                 (d) vociferous

12. "human characteristics given to non-human things"

(a) personification                        (b) inscrutable

(c) decorum                                   (d) hardy

13. "principal; most important"

(a) role               (b) vocal             (c) cardinal       (d) vestige

14. "to goad or spur on"

(a) exhort          (b) caricature   (c) hem              (d) vociferous

15. "splendid or dazzling in appearance, brilliant lustre."

(a) malaise        (b) allude           (c) cultivated    (d) resplendent

16. "lightness of manner or speech"

(a) levity                                        (b) quandary

(c) indefatigable                          (d) rendering

17. "chemical substance that helps control chemical reactions"

(a) enzyme                                     (b) circuitously

(c) discriminating                         (d) ferocity

18. "leaf of a fern or palm"

(a) cistern          (b) glint              (c) frond            (d) seismograph

19. "to become clear; obvious"

(a) manifest                                   (b) malaise                

(c) discriminating                        (d) Endeavour

20. "imitation; artificial"

(a) garrulous    (b) savory          (c) sham            (d) elemental

21. "with many words; profusely"

(a) copiously     (b) garrulous    (c) barometer   (d) savoury

22. "a durable, lightweight metal"

(a) fracture       (b) titanium      (c) sheepish       (d) pompous

23. "structures that make up a cell; tiny organs"

(a) recoil                                         (b) traverse      

(c) generalization                         (d) organelles

24. "a measure of the force of gravity on an object"

(a) Cossack       (b) sultry            (c) weight          (d) emit

25. "Special anniversary that marks an event that took place 100 years ago"

(a) dissentient  (b) fallow           (c) consent        (d) centennial

26. "kept or done in secret, often in order to conceal an illicit or improper purpose."

(a) atrocity        (b) acute            (c) frippery        (d) clandestine

27. "relating to the workings of the body"

(a) enigma                                     (b) caricature

(c) physiological                           (d) allude

28. "A close, beneficial relationship between two or more organisms"

(a) garish           (b) hardy           (c) cardinal       (d) symbiosis

29. "feeling of mental unease, caused by failure, disappointment, or a disconcerting event"

(a) chromosomes                         (b) avert  

(c) chagrin                                     (d) intolerable

30. "embankment for defence against attack"

(a) rampart                                    (b) gesticulation

(c) polarize                                     (d) personification

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