Vocabulary Word Power Worksheet-36

Word Power Worksheet – 36

Choose the correct word for the given clue.

1. "never stopping"

(a) calligraphy  (b) ruse              (c) incessantly  (d) rue

2. "to decay, rot; to become an increasing source of irritation"

(a) remorse       (b) nettle            (c) mettle           (d) fester

3. "small; tiny"

(a) torrent         (b) surmount    (c) minute         (d) destitute

4. "a scholarly study on a specialized subject"

(a) province      (b) vindictive    (c) monograph (d) cynical

5. "random"

(a) beleaguer    (b) glut               (c) lurid              (d) indiscriminate

6. "suddenly, violently, intermittently"

(a) discern                                      (b) cartography

(c) spasmodically                         (d) epigram

7. "wisdom, intelligence"

(a) anxiety                                      (b) retrospective

(c) sagacity                                     (d) reciprocate

8. "sceptical, unwilling or unable to believe"

(a) frolic             (b) torpor          (c) basin             (d) incredulous

9. "spreading of emotions, ideas, or customs from one person to another"

(a) orotund        (b) acuteness    (c) wrest            (d) contagion

10. "hold back, stop, smother"

(a) stifle             (b) iridescent    (c) retaliate       (d) deploy

11. "fine handwriting; ornamental penmanship"

(a) calligraphy  (b) sanction       (c) maelstrom  (d) dew point

12. "layer of the atmosphere that contains ozone gas"

(a) insomniac                                (b) stratosphere

(c) beleaguer                                 (d) colossus

13. "shrivelled or wrinkled; old"

(a) toady            (b) wizened       (c) avarice         (d) consume

14. "Happening by a fortunate accident or chance; lucky; fortunate"

(a) fortuitous    (b) aversion       (c) pragmatic   (d) ponderous

15. "Immoderate desire for wealth; greed"

(a) retaliate       (b) pacific          (c) monogram  (d) avarice

16. "practical; dealing with facts"

(a) spasmodically                         (b) sanction      

(c) pragmatic                                (d) immemorial

17. "To appeal to in supplication; to beg for earnestly"

(a) implore        (b) conveyance (c) crest              (d) fester

18. "contempt or ridicule"

(a) apparition   (b) derision       (c) deliquesce   (d) lustrous

19. "heavy, unyielding"

(a) exultation    (b) ponderous   (c) basin             (d) indiscriminate

20. "a ghost"

(a) spectre         (b) salinity         (c) concussion  (d) torpor

21. "annoying"

(a) scintillate                                 (b) furtively

(c) stratosphere                            (d) pestilent

22. "vehicle"

(a) consequence                            (b) conveyance

(c) reins                                          (d) voracious

23. "pretending to be good and free of fault when one is not"

(a) hypocritical                              (b) incredulous

(c) torrent                                      (d) cyclone

24. "Scornful of the motives, virtue, or integrity of others; showing scorn and bitter mockery"

(a) seismograph                           (b) slough

(c) cynical                                      (d) battery

25. "assumption"

(a) hue                (b) supposition (c) silhouette     (d) sagacity

26. "To speak boastfully of; brag about; speech of extravagant self-praise"

(a) salinity         (b) vaunt            (c) brink             (d) lurid

27. "graceful politeness"

(a) conceive                                    (b) suavity

(c) obsequious                               (d) holography

28. "Anxious or fearful about the future; uneasy; able to understand and quick to apprehend"

(a) tout                                            (b) apprehensive

(c) ploy                                            (d) crest

29. "very heavy fall of rain"

(a) harridan      (b) phonetics    (c) torrent          (d) maw

30. "definite dislike"

(a) misdemeanou                         (b) sanguine     

(c) pluckily                                      (d) aversion

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