Vocabulary Word Power Worksheet-43

Word Power Worksheet – 43

Choose the correct word for the given clue.

1. "contrary; ill-tempered; querulous; discontented"

(a) dissuade      (b) acute            (c) peevish         (d) portmanteau

2. "basic unit of military personnel"

(a) battery         (b) toehold        (c) imminent    (d) blemish

3. "with a change of direction of approximately 45 degrees"

(a) degrade       (b) obliquely     (c) fester            (d) toehold

4. "deep, torturing sense of guilt"

(a) impose         (b) remorse       (c) sagacity        (d) invective

5. "An offense less serious than a felony"

(a) foreboding                               (b) syllabication       

(c) misdemeanour                       (d) anxiety

6. "put in the care of another"

(a) astonish       (b) deploy          (c) canard          (d) commend

7. "make muffled or confused"

(a) addle            (b) iridescent    (c) toehold         (d) province

8. "An ill-tempered person full of resentment and stubborn notions"

(a) curmudgeon                           (b) jaundice

(c) conceive                                   (d) indiscriminate

9. "an over-hanging or extremely steep mass of rock; such as a crag or the face of a cliff"

(a) aversion       (b) desolate       (c) precipice      (d) reins

10. "listening carefully"

(a) endow                                       (b) hearkening

(c) misdemeanour                       (d) wan

11. "the study of the sounds of language"

(a) canard         (b) comely         (c) phonetics     (d) detonation

12. "a splendid or striking array; the complete arms and armour of a warrior"

(a) suavity         (b) acute            (c) panoply        (d) perplexingly

13. "thick, puffy, low-lying clouds that are usually present on sunny days"

(a) disclose        (b) castigate      (c) cumulus       (d) sanguine

14. "the appearance of a printed page"

(a) typography (b) obsequious (c) aversion       (d) termagant

15. "held back, kept from doing something"

(a) refrained     (b) vacant          (c) spectre         (d) fancy

16. "spread our or place military troops"

(a) envelop        (b) deploy          (c) inaudibly     (d) wrest

17. "weariness; tiredness"

(a) impunity      (b) stifle             (c) condone       (d) lassitude

18. "tending to be physically or mentally inactive"

(a) inert              (b) peevish        (c) ponderous   (d) froth

19. "cry out; loud noise"

(a) void                                           (b) misanthrope

(c) jaundice                                    (d) clamour

20. "weak, sickly person"

(a) teak               (b) vendetta      (c) invalid          (d) graphic

1-c;  2-a;  3-b;  4-b;  5-c;  6-d;  7-a;  8-a;  9-c;  10-b;  11-c;  12-c;  13-c;  14-a;  15-a;  16-b;  17-d;  18-a;  19-d;  20-c