Vocabulary Word Power Worksheet-59

Word Power Worksheet – 59

Choose the correct word for the given clue.

1. "promoting health; producing a beneficial effect"

(a) cavity            (b) excoriate     (c) fishtail          (d) salutary

2. "a private meeting; a gathering of a group"

(a) vigil                                           (b) abominable

(c) conclave                                   (d) score

3. "a mischievous imp in mythical tales"

(a) terrestrial    (b) evident         (c) hobgoblin    (d) extol

4. "sullen, gloomy"

(a) gingerly       (b) morose        (c) mystical       (d) excavation

5. "hole or hollow place"

(a) biologists                                  (b) abominable

(c) meringue                                  (d) cavity

6. "waterproof boots that are worn very high up the leg"

(a) waders         (b) dedicated    (c) burly             (d) indisputably

7. "a melody of resounding and discordant noises"

(a) eloquent      (b) meandered (c) din                 (d) cavity

8. "engagement"

(a) incongruity (b) throaty         (c) betrothal      (d) rouse

9. "dull grayish brown"

(a) microfiche  (b) dispense      (c) dun               (d) composition

10. "any of the parallel beams that support a roof"

(a) incongruity (b) succinct       (c) rafters          (d) cascade

11. "large number of persons or things"

(a) sloughs        (b) multitude    (c) psychic         (d) abominable

12. "boundary of a circular object"

(a) manufacture                            (b) circumference

(c) heart-wrenching                    (d) exertion

13. "places of deep mud or mire"

(a) perplexed    (b) sloughs        (c) recede          (d) adage

14. "confidence"

(a) whet             (b) aperture      (c) impinge       (d) assurance

15. "a troublesome, embarrassing, or ludicrous situation"

(a) ensnare                                     (b) doleful

(c) predicament                            (d) diameter

16. "slow, deliberate, and secret in action or character"

(a) doleful          (b) dedicated    (c) betrothal      (d) stealthy

17. "make new or as if new again"

(a) spectacle     (b) recede          (c) regress         (d) renew

18. "opening"

(a) burly             (b) aperture      (c) pointed         (d) manufacture

19. "hint"

(a) minutia        (b) slather         (c) regress         (d) intimation

20. "edge"

(a) complacency                           (b) harrowing

(c) verge                                         (d) concussion

21. "an attitude of doubt"

(a) tedious                                      (b) incontinently                

(c) skeptical                                   (d) deliberation

22. "bring to dishonor"

(a) stealthy        (b) odious         (c) degrade        (d) ruckus

23. "walked along slowly and without direction"

(a) meandered (b) rouse            (c) calamity       (d) babbling

24. "having a wasted, worn look"

(a) haggard       (b) sloughs        (c) burgeon       (d) haven

25. "fleshy part between ribs and hips"

(a) flank                                         (b) regress                 

(c) heart-wrenching                    (d) incrustation

26. "loosely coiled yarn or thread wound on a reel"

(a) grievances   (b) whet             (c) skeins           (d) unanimity

27. "of the earth"

(a) cubicle         (b) terrestrial    (c) morose         (d) fertile

28. "move as if in waves"

(a) skeptical                                   (b) complacency

(c) harrowing                                (d) undulate

29. "to praise highly"

(a) adjacent       (b) pernicious   (c) extol              (d) consolation

30. "stopping and starting at intervals"

(a) unsociable                                (b) skeptical

(c) intermittent                             (d) manufacture

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