Vocabulary Word Power Worksheet-46

Word Power Worksheet – 46

Choose the correct word for the given clue.

1. "uniquely; exceptionally"

(a) sanctimonious                        (b) microbe      

(c) singularly                                 (d) equivocate

2. "Substance used to destroy or stop growth of microorganisms"

(a) sumptuous  (b) strait            (c) biopsy           (d) antibiotic

3. "persistent urgent demands"

(a) hardy                                        (b) importunity

(c) gorge                                         (d) meager

4. "to walk with a pompous bearing, to display in order to impress others"

(a) strut              (b) devastate     (c) fluctuation  (d) infiltrate

5. "Eating both vegetable and animal foods; Taking in everything available."

(a) omnivorous                            (b) oust             

(c) Magnetometer                       (d) paradoxical

6. "a vague feeling of bodily discomfort; a general sense of unease"

(a) caricature   (b) malaise        (c) persistent    (d) gargoyle

7. "to confine; surround"

(a) pugnacious                              (b) hoodwink

(c) inconclusive                            (d) hem

8. "to cause to feel resentment or indignation, to provoke or arouse."

(a) homage        (b) subside        (c) myriad         (d) pique

9. "marred by strident colour or excessive ornamentation; gaudy, glaring, flashy"

(a) incessant     (b) garish           (c) chronology  (d) crags

10. "the physical property of a mineral that causes it to break with rough or jagged edges"

(a) palpable      (b) fracture       (c) exhort           (d) cell wall

11. "most basic"

(a) setting          (b) hardy           (c) elemental    (d) tsunami

12. "effective"

(a) efficacious   (b) luminous     (c) staid              (d) doggedly

13. "marked by wildly irregular motion"

(a) turbulent     (b) demure        (c) avert             (d) fluctuation

14. "instrument that detects and measures earthquake waves"

(a) seismograph                           (b) phantasm

(c) retch                                         (d) elemental

15. "perplexing, baffling person or matter"

(a) chlorophyll (b) vitality          (c) enigma         (d) affluence

16. "swing or move regularly back and forth"

(a) vivacious     (b) lacerated     (c) oscillate       (d) strut

17. "lazily; with a poor attitude"

(a) decorum      (b) credible       (c) indolently    (d) biopsy

18. "to pay respect to"

(a) decade         (b) homage       (c) evict              (d) pugnacious

19. "The removal of living tissue for study"

(a) phantasm    (b) vitality          (c) biopsy           (d) barometer

20. "believable"

(a) heterogeneous                        (b) rampart      

(c) credible                                    (d) emit

21. "an obstacle or foil"

(a) gorge            (b) cell wall       (c) curtail          (d) impediment

22. "point of view"

(a) lurid             (b) hoodwink    (c) cajole            (d) aspect

23. "a momentary flash of light; a sparkle."

(a) glint              (b) audacious   (c) transient      (d) isthmus

24. "exaggerated imitation of someone or something used to mock"

(a) caricature   (b) perfidy         (c) edifice          (d) edifice

25. "given to excessive and often trivial or rambling talk; wordy and rambling"

(a) craven          (b) oust              (c) garrulous     (d) incessant

26. "one who researches and writes about the past"

(a) myriad                                      (b) alleviate

(c) dethronement                         (d) historian

27. "very humid and hot"

(a) sultry                                        (b) aplomb

(c) rudimentary                            (d) rout

28. "where and when a story takes place"

(a) setting          (b) nucleus        (c) impart          (d) century

29. "perplexing, baffling person or matter"

(a) languish       (b) craven          (c) enigma         (d) instantaneous

30. "something relating to death or disease"

(a) arduous       (b) century        (c) vivacious      (d) morbidity

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