Vocabulary Word Power Worksheet-42

Word Power Worksheet – 42

Choose the correct word for the given clue.

1. "Producing a display of lustrous, rainbow-like colours"

(a) toady            (b) precarious  (c) imminent    (d) iridescent

2. "great lack of energy"

(a) bevy              (b) lethargy       (c) preserve       (d) deliquesce

3. "secretly"

(a) ambiance                                  (b) confidentially

(c) baleful                                       (d) astonish

4. "A cover for a coffin, often made of black, purple, or white velvet"

(a) scintillate                                 (b) retrospective

(c) genes                                         (d) pall

5. "Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning"

(a) avail              (b) obsequious (c) impose         (d) sagacity

6. "the rise and fall in sea level"

(a) castigate      (b) seethe           (c) tide                (d) hedonism

7. "of a size or splendour suggesting great expense; lavish."

(a) maelstrom                               (b) robust         

(c) bewilderment                         (d) sumptuous

8. "periodically"

(a) incessantly                               (b) apparition  

(c) intermittently                          (d) sanguine

9. "A public declaration of principles, policies, or intentions"

(a) catastrophe (b) annals          (c) pollutant      (d) manifesto

10. "To enclose or encase completely with or as if with a covering"

(a) severe           (b) ponderous   (c) bawl              (d) envelop

11. "confirm, support, bolster"

(a) mettle                                       (b) corroborate

(c) mettle                                        (d) intermittently

12. "anything given or done to show honour or respect"

(a) astonish       (b) furtively       (c) homage        (d) cirrus

13. "quarrelsome"

(a) azure            (b) termagant   (c) cyclone         (d) teak

14. "to bring peace, quiet, or calm to; soothe"

(a) appease       (b) minute         (c) disgorge       (d) clamour

15. "suitcase"

(a) scintillate                                 (b) portmanteau

(c) tide                                            (d) brazen

16. "change into something different"

(a) desist                                        (b) metamorphose   

(c) suavity                                      (d) ply

17. "Denunciatory or abusive language"

(a) beleaguer    (b) colossus       (c) jute                (d) invective

18. "to bubble or boil"

(a) conveyance                              (b) monograph

(c) seethe                                        (d) intermittently

19. "bravely"

(a) misanthrope                            (b) pluckily

(c) fusillade                                    (d) lustrous

20. "Portending evil; ominous; harmful or malignant in intent"

(a) bawl             (b) dew point    (c) condone       (d) baleful

21. "high altitude, wispy clouds that usually indicate fair weather"

(a) eddy              (b) cirrus           (c) withhold      (d) tranquility

22. "pleasantly pungent or tart in taste; spicy."

(a) piquant        (b) lurid             (c) patent           (d) syllabication

23. "mean spirited joking"

(a) portmanteau                           (b) lethargy      

(c) mockery                                   (d) audacity

24. "the point at which water vapour condenses"

(a) ascetic                                      (b) dew point

(c) spasmodically                         (d) crevice

25. "to try"

(a) ultimatum   (b) disgorge      (c) endeavour   (d) province

26. "shout or call out noisily"

(a) disclose        (b) jute               (c) bawl              (d) monograph

27. "to remove one's head"

(a) decapitate   (b) incense        (c) desolate       (d) slough

28. "color"

(a) pall                                            (b) bewilderment

(c) hue                                            (d) aversion

29. "whimsical imagination"

(a) desolate                                    (b) seethe          

(c) misdemeanour                       (d) fancy

30. "referring to techniques used to reproduce words and pictures"

(a) radiation     (b) tout               (c) graphic        (d) ruse

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