Vocabulary - Sentence Completion - 04

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

1. The defense attorney’s choice of words ________ that there were other possible versions of the crime, but the jury was unconvinced.

a. pervaded

b. insinuated

c. discounted

d. imposed

e. ensconced

2. Although she was on a diet, Hannah intended to ________ in the feast of Thanksgiving.

a. dilate

b. enervate

c. expunge

d. nullify

e. partake

3. With a(n) ________ grin, the boy quickly slipped the candy into his pocket without his mother’s knowledge.

a. jaundiced

b. nefarious

c. stereotypical

d. sentimental

e. impartial

4. The ________ child caused great difficulties for her parents and teachers because she refused to correct her bad behavior even in the face of punishment.

a. adorable

b. sincere

c. incorrigible

d. lamentable

e. demure

5. Although the villagers’ lives were profoundly different from her own, Jing-Mae felt a deep ________ for the people when she served in the Peace Corps.

a. reparation

b. affinity

c. injunction

d. exigency

e. analogy

6. He has long been a(n) ________ of year-round school, believing it would significantly improve learning and ease the burden on working parents.

a. advocate

b. levity

c. detractor

d. epiphany

e. connoisseur

7. The knight sought to ________ his broadsword in such a menacing fashion as to frighten his attacker away.