Vocabulary Word Power Worksheet-37

Word Power Worksheet – 37

Choose the correct word for the given clue.

1. "stop"

(a) hue                (b) avarice         (c) patent           (d) desist

2. "to overlook, forgive, or disregard without protest or censure"

(a) spectre         (b) diatribe        (c) condone       (d) destitute

3. "form or develop in the mind"

(a) spectre         (b) conceive      (c) gratify          (d) scintillate

4. "stronger"

(a) dominant    (b) acute            (c) covetous       (d) profound

5. "plant fibre used in making rope and burlap bags"

(a) trough          (b) jute               (c) beleaguer    (d) annals

6. "cause to happen before expected"

(a) deploy          (b) furtively       (c) precipitate   (d) desolate

7. "to protect"

(a) monograph                              (b) cartography

(c) monsoon                                   (d) preserve

8. "to talk stupidly or childishly; stupid or senseless talk"

(a) jute               (b) clamour       (c) drivel            (d) thicket

9. "triumphant"

(a) poignant      (b) exultant       (c) jute                (d) belligerent

10. "detect; to perceive as being different or distinct; distinguish"

(a) pinnacle       (b) discern         (c) rancour        (d) acute

11. "overtake; devour"

(a) voracious     (b) consume      (c) shimmer      (d) wrest

12. "the passing on of trait from an organism to its offspring"

(a) acute            (b) heredity       (c) tide                (d) photosynthesis

13. "the result of an action"

(a) consequence                            (b) cyclone

(c) seethe                                        (d) encumber

14. "someone who does not like people"

(a) profound                                  (b) misanthrope

(c) deign                                         (d) repugnance

15. "The mouth, stomach, jaws, or gullet of a voracious animal"

(a) salinity         (b) lethargy       (c) maw             (d) patent

16. "disposed to seek revenge; revengeful"

(a) insensate                                  (b) ostentatious

(c) confluence                                (d) vindictive

17. "begged"

(a) intermittently                          (b) rectify

(c) confidentially                          (d) implored

18. "persuade not to do something"

(a) dissuade                                   (b) stoic

(c) supposition                              (d) confide

19. "marked by intellectual depth"

(a) furtively       (b) orotund       (c) eddy              (d) profound

20. "quality of having a keen or quick mind"

(a) anxiety         (b) pluck            (c) acuteness     (d) lustrous

21. "false report that has been fabricated with the intention of doing harm"

(a) pestilent       (b) lethargy       (c) canard          (d) castigate

22. "a great, often sudden calamity"

(a) ingratiate    (b) acuteness    (c) catastrophe (d) eddy

23. "a bitter, destructive feud or quest for revenge"

(a) colossus       (b) typography (c) vendetta       (d) tide

24. "profoundly moving; touching; intense or stimulating"

(a) subcontinent                           (b) poignant

(c) pollutant                                  (d) endeavor

25. "clearly, smoothly, expressively"

(a) fluently        (b) confer          (c) eloquence    (d) furtively

26. "appeasing; of a peaceful nature; tranquil"

(a) vicar             (b) genes            (c) deign            (d) pacific

27. "process using sunlight that produces food"

(a) photosynthesis                        (b) lethargy

(c) cumulus                                   (d) choleric

28. "to inflict severe punishment on."

(a) castigate      (b) degrade       (c) obsequious  (d) teak

29. "violently, eagerly, with great force"

(a) degrade       (b) vehemently (c) desist            (d) consume

30. "characteristic"

(a) trait                                           (b) Uruguay

(c) stratosphere                            (d) specter

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