Vocabulary - Sentence Completion - 05

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

1. Luanne experiences serious ________ whenever she climbs several flights of steep stairs.

a. vertigo

b. inebriation

c. exoneration

d. fallacy

e. plethora

2. The ________ townspeople celebrated the soldier’s return to his home by adorning trees with yellow ribbons and balloons.

a. somber

b. jubilant

c. pitiless

d. cunning

e. unsullied

3. Lyasia is a ________ of the clarinet; she has performed solos with many orchestras and bands around the world.

a. neophyte

b. novice

c. virtuoso

d. termagant

e. plethora

4. Because it had been worn and washed so often, Linus’s favorite tshirt was tattered and ________ with holes.

a. salvaged

b. circulated

c. riddled

d. emulated

e. congregated

5. The ad didn’t mention a specific salary; it just said “compensation ________ with experience.”

a. compulsory

b. manifest

c. prolific

d. commensurate

e. precluded

6. Amie agrees with the ________ that the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.

a. perpetuity

b. penchant

c. maxim

d. conformation

e. fortitude

7. After the boisterous customers left the café without tipping, Carlos ________ at them through the restaurant’s front window.

a. interjected

b. jostled

c. glowered

d. emulated

e. skulked

8. Doc Wilson grew up in Florida and was not prepared to face the ________ climate of the Alaskan winter.

a. freshwater

b. gelid

c. compendious

d. subsidiary

e. improvident

9. Given his ________ nature, it was appropriate that he decided to be a trial lawyer after law school.

a. lackluster

b. engrossed

c. penitent

d. litigious

e. obsolete

10. When the movie star slipped out the back door of the hotel, the paparazzi adroitly gathered their ________ and raced around the building to catch her.

a. pandemonium

b. tenor

c. paraphernalia

d. venue

e. propaganda