Vocabulary Word Power Worksheet-49

Word Power Worksheet – 49

Choose the correct word for the given clue.

1. "cultured or refined"

(a) cultivated    (b) strait            (c) surplus         (d) credible

2. "characterized by excessive self-esteem or exaggerated dignity"

(a) heterogeneous                        (b) pompous    

(c) Seismologist                            (d) luminous

3. "A narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water"

(a) centennial   (b) setting          (c) glint              (d) strait

4. "cause to continue"

(a) lurk               (b) cleavage      (c) rainforest    (d) perpetuate

5. "Before Christ: used to show that a date falls before the Christian era"

(a) cell wall       (b) consent        (c) copiously     (d) b, c

6. "having or showing skilful use of the hands or body"

(a) centennial   (b) antibiotic     (c) perpetuate   (d) dexterous

7. "characterized by abject fear; cowardly"

(a) succumb      (b) craven          (c) expedient     (d) retch

8. "trace; sign; evidence"

(a) seismograph                           (b) remonstrance     

(c) rebuke                                      (d) vestige

9. "a person who is fond of eating; a person who eats to excess; glutton."

(a) malaise        (b) assemble     (c) boorish         (d) gourmand

10. "control centre of a cell"

(a) lurid             (b) entice           (c) nucleus        (d) vehemence

11. "to gain entrance gradually or surreptitiously; to permeate with a liquid or gas"

(a) Centripetal  (b) infiltrate      (c) rendering    (d) manifest

12. "to bring heavy destruction on, devastate, to pillage."

(a) ravage          (b) tussle            (c) cardinal       (d) role

13. "Anno domini; used to show that a date falls within the Christian era"

(a) gargoyle       (b) weight          (c) AD                 (d) omnivorous

14. "great abundance of energy and excitement"

(a) consent        (b) exuberance (c) timorous      (d) oust

15. "remaining in a place only a brief time; passing with time"

(a) traverse       (b) perfidy         (c) transient      (d) rebuke

16. "a period of 100 years"

(a) century        (b) myriad         (c) opulent         (d) assemble

17. "to decrease the fullness of; use up or empty out"

(a) deplete                                      (b) seismograph

(c) Projectile                                  (d) century

18. "deliberate breach of faith, calculated violation of trust; treachery."

(a) perfidy         (b) teeter            (c) credible        (d) expanse

19. "possessing of exhibiting great wealth, characterized by rich abundance; luxuriant."

(a) vivacious                                  (b) heterogeneous    

(c) embellish                                 (d) opulent

20. "to become ill"

(a) intolerable                               (b) retch

(c) forethought                              (d) edict

21. "different; dissimilar"

(a) heterogeneous                        (b) vestige         

(c) crags                                         (d) savoury

22. "yield; submit; give away"

(a) culminate    (b) valour          (c) succumb      (d) edict

23. "very cruel, evil, or brutal act"

(a) vehemence  (b) rebuke         (c) doggedly      (d) atrocity

24. "reach the highest point or climax"

(a) dissentient  (b) culminate    (c) acute             (d) oration

25. "speak very slowly, usually with an odd accent"

(a) drawl            (b) chagrin        (c) teeter            (d) fallow

26. "refer in an indirect way"

(a) allude           (b) edifice          (c) permeate     (d) nucleus

27. "narrow strip of land connecting 2 larger pieces bordered on 2 sides by bodies of water"

(a) alleviate       (b) enzyme        (c) dominate     (d) isthmus

28. "having the nature of involuntary spasms"

(a) pompous     (b) placid           (c) convulsive   (d) chlorophyll

29. "difficult to fathom or understand; impenetrable"

(a) inscrutable  (b) persistent    (c) despondent (d) pith

30. "long for with envy"

(a) covet             (b) setting          (c) rampart       (d) dissentient

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