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. 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

2. The task of building the cabin was a ________ one, but Rob was up to the challenge.

a. laborious

b. venerable

c. archaic

d. cynical

e. unbiased

3. Marta had to pay off her ________ to the credit card company before she could get a mortgage.

a. stipend

b. liability

c. remuneration

d. concession

e. consolidation

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. After the third relative was hired to an upper-level position, several people quit the company, claiming that ________ caused a decline in employee morale.

a. carrion

b. explicitness

c. skepticism

d. devotion

e. nepotism

9. The vulgarity used by the football fans at the stadium was ________ and eventually lead to a penalty for the team.

a. rakish

b. quiescent

c. sagacious

d. reproachable

e. mundane

10. Jayne’s paintings were not minimalist, but they were ________, using only the most elemental and essential elements.