Vocabulary Word Power Worksheet-39

Word Power Worksheet – 39

Choose the correct word for the given clue.

1. "an instrument for measuring earthquake vibrations"

(a) seismograph                           (b) gratify

(c) invective                                   (d) brink

2. "A chronological record of the events of successive years"

(a) shimmer      (b) fanatic         (c) annals          (d) trapping

3. "to set right; correct; to correct by calculation or adjustment"

(a) conveyance (b) pulsation     (c) rectify           (d) ploy

4. "territorial district"

(a) province                                   (b) cartography

(c) perplexingly                             (d) degrade

5. "act of hiding or pretending"

(a) dissimulation                          (b) silhouette   

(c) fluently                                      (d) lassitude

6. "To think it appropriate to one's dignity; condescend; to grant or give"

(a) tranquillity  (b) deign            (c) crevice          (d) lethargy

7. "not capable of feeling sensation"

(a) detonation   (b) bestow         (c) insensate     (d) supposition

8. "To reduce in rank, or status; demote; to lower in dignity; dishonour or disgrace"

(a) destitute      (b) degrade       (c) peevish         (d) phonetics

9. "a short, clever saying or poem"

(a) imminent    (b) epigram       (c) fester            (d) bevy

10. "a long spell of dry weather"

(a) metamorphose                       (b) dearth

(c) draught                                    (d) frolic

11. "To expose to view, as by removing a cover; to make known"

(a) poignant      (b) brink            (c) disclose        (d) pollutant

12. "to come in rough contact with; push; shove"

(a) colossus       (b) jostle            (c) Uruguay      (d) cowl

13. "likely to happen soon"

(a) Uruguay      (b) draught       (c) imminent    (d) trough

14. "to honor or remember"

(a) incredulous (b) solemnize    (c) obsequious  (d) pestilent

15. "beset with difficulties"

(a) metamorphose                       (b) insensate    

(c) beleaguer                                 (d) termagant

16. "calmness"

(a) tranquility   (b) ambiance    (c) malignant    (d) vendetta

17. "to fill beyond capacity, especially with food"

(a) glut               (b) apparition   (c) gaunt            (d) invalid

18. "to give"

(a) bestow         (b) obsequious (c) glut               (d) avarice

19. "means of guiding or controlling"

(a) incredulous (b) sanguine      (c) reins             (d) battery

20. "full of health and strength"

(a) robust          (b) aversion       (c) toehold         (d) salinity

21. "glowing through a haze"

(a) Harpy           (b) dominant    (c) lurid              (d) precipice

22. "to melt away"

(a) threshold     (b) deliquesce   (c) province       (d) cirrus

23. "shock from impact"

(a) appease       (b) concussion  (c) phonetics     (d) pinnacle

24. "to restore to good health or useful life through therapy and education"

(a) precipitate  (b) rehabilitate (c) haze              (d) belligerent

25. "condition or quality of being dim or lacking light"

(a) obscurity     (b) piquant        (c) wane             (d) monograph

26. "Something expected; a possibility"

(a) ruse              (b) prospect      (c) impose         (d) inaudibly

27. "the process of creating a three-dimensional image using lasers"

(a) appease       (b) mettle          (c) holography  (d) ruse

28. "uninhabited"

(a) crevice         (b) blemish       (c) desolate       (d) jute

29. "simultaneous or rapid and continuous discharge of many firearms"

(a) threshold     (b) conveyance (c) bestow          (d) fusillade

30. "form or develop in the mind"

(a) discern         (b) wan              (c) cyclone         (d) conceive

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