Vocabulary - Sentence Completion - 01

Vocabulary Examination - Sentence Completion
These tests improve your vocabulary, ability to follow the internal logic of sentences and elimination skill process.

1. While the king and the members of his court lived in the most opulent luxury, the peasants in his kingdom lived in the most ________ poverty.

a. abject

b. incessant

c. relinquished

d. erratic

e. lugubrious

2. Daniela found the unchanging rhythm of the musical piece to be annoyingly ________.

a. recusant

b. monotonous

c. irreverent

d. coherent

e. redolent

3. Chantel kept the ________ of her beloved foremost in her mind as she traveled to countries far and wide in her quest to find him.

a. prelude

b. armistice

c. hirsute

d. presage

e. visage

4. Dogs growl and show their teeth in an attempt to ________ the animal or person they perceive as a threat.

a. bolster

b. waylay

c. cow

d. exacerbate

e. appease

5. The candidate’s inappropriately sexist remark was met with a ________ of denunciations from the angry crowd.

a. bastion

b. fusillade

c. mélange

d. dichotomy

e. solecism

6. With Justine’s ________ nature and passion for art, she would make an excellent tour guide for the museum.

a. volatile

b. congenial

c. servile

d. fledgling

e. trite

7. When Melinda arrived in the impoverished city, she was immediately ________ by bands of children begging for food.

a. bedraggled

b. accosted

c. infiltrated

d. rebuked

e. exacerbated

8. Ronaldo celebrated the gathering of his ________ on Thanksgiving Day and spoke with relatives he had not seen in a long time.

a. commonwealth

b. surrogates

c. representatives

d. kindred

e. infidels

9. A life-long vegetarian, Xiomara ________ when she learned that the sauce she’d just eaten was made with chicken broth.

a. wavered

b. blanched

c. coalesced

d. stagnated

e. thwarted

10. It would take many hours of cleaning and repairing for the young family to transform the ________ into a clean and comfortable little cottage.

a. territory

b. manor

c. hovel

d. demesne

e. hacienda