Vocabulary Word Power Worksheet-44

Word Power Worksheet – 44

Choose the correct word for the given clue.

1. "feigning piety or righteousness"

(a) aspect                                       (b) sanctimonious    

(c) lurid                                          (d) discriminating

2. "order in which a series of events occurred"

(a) cistern          (b) incessant     (c) morbidity    (d) chronology

3. "to make (pain, for example)    more bearable"

(a) tsunami       (b) cistern          (c) alleviate       (d) modulation

4. "state of having intense feeling or passion"

(a) vivid              (b) staid             (c) vehemence  (d) credible

5. "of or relating to the voice, uttered or produced by the voice"

(a) vocal             (b) lacerated     (c) vitality          (d) tsunami

6. "terrified; horrified"

(a) beckon         (b) persistent    (c) aghast          (d) gargoyle

7. "pleasant  in  taste  or  smell; aromatic"

(a) savoury        (b) timorous     (c) pugnacious (d) mantle

8. "timid; full of or subject to fear"

(a) timorous      (b) luminous     (c) vivid              (d) frippery

9. "act of carefully considering all the facts before acting"

(a) circumspection                      (b) centennial  

(c) century                                     (d) timorous

10. "a sly or clever trick meant to deceive someone"

(a) wiles             (b) expanse       (c) audacious    (d) sustain

11. "timid; full of or subject to fear"

(a) gesticulation                           (b) century

(c) Projectile                                 (d) timorous

12. "ask or beg earnestly for"

(a) chlorophyll (b) Cossack       (c) implore        (d) deforestation

13. "a period of 10 years"

(a) decade         (b) slender         (c) polarize        (d) bland

14. "something built by a person using stone, brick, etc."

(a) modulation (b) isthmus       (c) masonry      (d) agenda

15. "joking, inappropriate"

(a) facetious      (b) rebuke         (c) embellish     (d) timorous

16. "plan in a deceitful way"

(a) scheme        (b) oration         (c) oration         (d) chronology

17. "demanding great effort or labor; difficult"

(a) infiltrate      (b) arduous       (c) languish       (d) expanse

18. "to short cut; abbreviate"

(a) curtail          (b) vociferous   (c) levity             (d) resplendent

19. "not fat; thin"

(a) crags            (b) avert             (c) slender         (d) rainforest

20. "expressed warmly; vigorous; robust; a comrade"

(a) physiological                          (b) hardy

(c) turbulent                                 (d) covey

21. "the physical property of a mineral that causes it to break along flat surfaces"

(a) Projectile     (b) craven         (c) rendering    (d) cleavage

22. "an amount or a quantity in excess of what is needed"

(a) gargoyle                                   (b) personification

(c) allude                                       (d) surplus

23. "the thickest layer inside Earth"

(a) nucleus        (b) cultivated    (c) mantle          (d) Centripetal

24. "severe; sharp"

(a) cell                (b) oust              (c) levity             (d) acute

25. "to make evil, harmful, and often untrue statements"

(a) craven          (b) clandestine (c) malign          (d) atrocity

26. "characterized by sedate dignity and often a strait laced sense of propriety "

(a) intolerable                               (b) staid

(c) impediment                             (d) malign

27. "to put out by legal process; expel"

(a) itinerary      (b) evict              (c) endeavour   (d) circuitously

28. "lacking vitality"

(a) century        (b) entice           (c) anaemic       (d) personification

29. "capable of developing, etc under favourable conditions; practicable"

(a) consent        (b) viable           (c) aspect           (d) dissentient

30. "making, given to, or marked by noisy and vehement outcry"

(a) radiate                                      (b) chromosomes

(c) affluence                                   (d) vociferous

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