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Vocabulary Word Power Worksheet-58

Word Power Worksheet – 58

 

Choose the correct word for the given clue.

  1. "someone who studies man's past life and culture"

(a) archeologists                           (b) articulate   

(c) babbling                                   (d) ruckus

 

  1. "having a definite meaning"

(a) pointed        (b) articulate    (c) lapse             (d) cubicle

 

  1. "to swing from side to side out of control"

(a) adage           (b) fishtail         (c) cubicle         (d) exertion

 

  1. "calm"

(a) serene          (b) excavation  (c) vicinity         (d) odious

 

  1. "harsh crying"

(a) complacency                            (b) caterwauling

(c) stupefy                                       (d) scoff

 

  1. "condition or quality of having a lack of harmony or agreement"

(a) sullen                                        (b) biologists    

(c) complacency                            (d) incongruity

 

  1. "living or moving"

(a) tranquil       (b) animated     (c) incidental    (d) hibernate

 

  1. "travel between suburb and city"

(a) pointed        (b) hibernate    (c) tranquil        (d) commute

 

  1. "a rare personal quality attributed to leaders who arouse popular devotion and enthusiasm"

(a) abominable                              (b) charisma

(c) billowy                                      (d) sinewy

 

  1. "difficult to deal with, often attributed to very old, crabby people"

(a) briar                                          (b) vagabond   

(c) cantankerous                          (d) cairn

 

  1. "complaints"

(a) grievances                                (b) fluent

(c) gallivanting                              (d) commute

 

  1. "people who study plant and animal life"

(a) exertion       (b) biologists     (c) cockfight      (d) perusal

 

  1. "go or move back"

(a) recede          (b) lapse             (c) refuge           (d) multitude

 

  1. "not addicted to intoxicating drink; seriously"

(a) soberly         (b) succinct       (c) spectacle      (d) impulse

 

  1. "not able to speak understandably or coherently"

(a) derive                                        (b) inarticulate

(c) cackle                                        (d) scrutinize

 

  1. "laugh harshly in a sharp manner"

(a) retreated     (b) albeit            (c) cackle           (d) flank

 

  1. "a concerted refusal to do something"

(a) cascade        (b) dilemma      (c) rogue            (d) boycott

 

  1. "sheet of microfilm containing rows of micro images of pages of printed matter"

(a) superficial   (b) tranquil       (c) microfiche   (d) complacency

 

  1. "puzzled; confused"

(a) data              (b) perplexed    (c) meandered  (d) disfigure

 

  1. "to obtain or achieve by indirect, usually deceitful methods"

(a) regress         (b) transient      (c) finagle          (d) frigid

 

  1. "deserving hatred; extremely unlikable"

(a) rivulets         (b) odious          (c) embroil        (d) aperture

 

  1. "to go back; move backward; to return to a previous, usually worse state"

(a) succinct       (b) regress         (c) excavation   (d) ebony

 

  1. "having distinction"

(a) gingerly       (b) adage           (c) stupefy         (d) honorary

 

  1. "the place where something is commonly found"

(a) doleful          (b) calamity      (c) vicinity         (d) habitat

 

  1. "half asleep"

(a) dun                                           (b) data

(c) semidormant                          (d) catcall

 

  1. "very cautious or careful"

(a) gingerly       (b) poacher       (c) cackle           (d) timidity

 

  1. "to make fearful"

(a) indisputably                            (b) intimidate

(c) cascade                                     (d) undulate

 

  1. "insignificant"

(a) gibberish     (b) meandered (c) trivial            (d) whet

 

  1. "unquestionably"

(a) rivulets                                     (b) indisputably

(c) levering                                    (d) taunt

 

  1. "a mound of stones erected as a memorial or marker"

(a) shard            (b) cairn             (c) privy             (d) wimple

 

Answers:

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