Vocabulary Word Power Worksheet-41

Word Power Worksheet – 41

Choose the correct word for the given clue.

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

(a) dew point    (b) minute         (c) audacity       (d) obsequious

2. "the study of heredity"

(a) verge            (b) pragmatic   (c) avarice         (d) genetics

3. "Having a gloss, glaze, or sheen."

(a) hedonism    (b) battery         (c) lustrous        (d) impunity

4. "pretentious display meant to impress others; boastful showiness; an exhibition"

(a) genetics                                    (b) aversion

(c) ostentatious                             (d) wrench

5. "person who holds extreme and unreasonable views; zealot"

(a) insensate     (b) endeavour   (c) fanatic          (d) apprehensive

6. "Of the colour of blood"

(a) ostentatious                             (b) sanguine

(c) wane                                          (d) ingratiate

7. "to surprise"

(a) minute         (b) repent          (c) profound     (d) astonish

8. "to refrain from giving; restrain"

(a) withhold      (b) comely         (c) lassitude      (d) salinity

9. "obvious"

(a) iridescent    (b) patent          (c) repugnance (d) ply

10. "the process of dividing words into units of sound"

(a) toady            (b) stoic              (c) reciprocate  (d) syllabication

11. "to equip or supply with a talent or quality; to give"

(a) endow          (b) panoply       (c) destitute       (d) implored

12. "huge"

(a) hedonism    (b) Uruguay      (c) colossus       (d) gratify

13. "shorthand writing"

(a) mockery                                    (b) dominant

(c) stenography                            (d) portend

14. "extreme nervousness"

(a) contagion    (b) anxiety         (c) tranquillity  (d) reverberation

15. "pompous and bombastic; full in sound"

(a) stenography                            (b) conceive

(c) formidable                               (d) orotund

16. "a design composed of one or more initials"

(a) hedonism    (b) monogram  (c) basin             (d) incredulous

17. "a slight advantage useful for future progress"

(a) toehold         (b) belligerent  (c) compulsion (d) lethargy

18. "easily angered; bad-tempered; showing or expressing anger"

(a) curmudgeon                           (b) vindictive

(c) obliquely                                   (d) choleric

19. "the highest point of a wave"

(a) crest                                          (b) repugnance

(c) torpor                                        (d) seethe

20. "units of heredity; a specific portion of DNA"

(a) countenance                            (b) genes

(c) fluently                                     (d) countenance

21. "greedy; wanting something another person has"

(a) cunning                                    (b) retrospective

(c) discern                                      (d) covetous

22. "to obtain by pulling with violent twisting movements"

(a) salinity         (b) pragmatic   (c) wrest            (d) desolate

23. "seeking conflict or war"

(a) sanguine      (b) impunity     (c) belligerent   (d) condescend

24. "to meet in order to deliberate together or compare views"

(a) confer           (b) void              (c) mettle           (d) incredulous

25. "A violent or turbulent situation; a whirlpool of extraordinary size or violence"

(a) severe           (b) maelstrom  (c) vex                (d) minute

26. "bother, trouble"

(a) rue                (b) dissuade      (c) vex                (d) inert

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

(a) poignant      (b) obsequious (c) annals          (d) cynical

28. "take advantage of"

(a) avail              (b) rectify          (c) fluently         (d) choleric

29. "a bitter, abusive denunciation."

(a) ply                                             (b) dissimulation

(c) diatribe                                     (d) appease

30. "articles of dress or adornment; characteristic or symbolic signs"

(a) tout               (b) vicar             (c) trapping       (d) solemnize

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