Vocabulary - Sentence Completion - 03

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

1. The ________ old cowboy had a complexion that spoke of many years in the desert sun, rounding up wild horses.

a. secular

b. suave

c. turgid

d. wizened

e. truant

2. The ________ construction crew built large new buildings all over the East Coast, wherever the demand for qualified workers took them.

a. laconic

b. irresolute

c. itinerant

d. parietal

e. peremptory

3. Living on several acres of land dotted with oak and maple trees makes autumn leaf-raking a ________ task.

a. fatuous

b. toilsome

c. tardy

d. obsequious

e. fawning

4. The children knew that once their father made his decision, the new rule would be ________ because he would never change his mind.

a. irrevocable

b. articulate

c. premeditated

d. serried

e. discourteous

5. Genevieve’s stunning debut performance at the city opera has earned her ________ from some of the city’s toughest critics.

a. antipathy

b. insinuations

c. destitution

d. lamentations

e. accolades

6. The play’s ________ debut was not a good sign for the struggling producer.

a. unsubstantial

b. inauspicious

c. copious

d. disembodied

e. immaterial

7. The toy store’s extensive inventory offered a ________ of toys from baby items to video games for teenagers.

a. manifold

b. lexicon

c. burrow

d. gamut

e. motif

8. Tai was ________ by a series of setbacks that nearly made him miss his deadline.

a. ensconced

b. relegated

c. beleaguered

d. solicited

e. winnowed

9. After performing a ________ of the cow, scientists determined that it did not have mad cow disease, and there was no need to notify the board of health.

a. extrapolation

b. interrogation

c. interment

d. elongation

e. vivisection

10. As ________ beings we live each day conscious of our shortcomings and victories.

a. sensational

b. sentient

c. sentimental

d. static

e. senile