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 dress Ariel wore ________ with small, glassy beads, creating a shimmering effect.

a. titillated

b. reiterated

c. scintillated

d. enthralled

e. striated

2. The surgeon placed a ________ on the femoral artery to bind it during the long and exhausting surgery.

a. ligature

b. doctrine

c. premise

d. synopsis

e. degeneration

3. The catlike movements of the sneaky ________ served him well when he picked pockets among the tourists on the crowded boardwalk.

a. forerunner

b. knave

c. vigilante

d. dignitary

e. bureaucrat

4. Tonya found Isaac’s public declarations of his love for her ________ and embarrassing.

a. necrotic

b. intriguing

c. witless

d. malodorous

e. pliant

5. Floyd has a distinctive ________ to his voice—easily recognizable over the phone.

a. viscosity

b. brawn

c. timbre

d. diadem

e. ingenuity

6. Wedding ceremonies often include the exchange of ________ rings to symbolize the couple’s promises to each other.

a. hirsute

b. acrimonious

c. plaintive

d. deciduous

e. votive

7. 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

8. The dissatisfied workers spread their ________ attitudes among themselves until there was a danger of a full-scale rebellion against the owners of the factory.

a. paradoxical

b. monochromatic

c. benign

d. virulent

e. portentous

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

a. ensconced

b. relegated

c. beleaguered

d. solicited

e. winnowed

10. 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