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. The female fox’s ________ over her burrow indicates that she has just birthed her young.

a. vendetta

b. preening

c. vigilance

d. sepulcher

e. rendezvous

2. The cop was in a ________: Should he chase the criminal or help the victim?

a. quandary

b. litany

c. tatter

d. discord

e. plethora

3. The ________ employee decided to complain publicly about the unacceptable working conditions.

a. discreet

b. prudent

c. precarious

d. malcontent

e. stupendous

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. 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

6. The ________ sound of the radiator as it released steam became an increasingly annoying distraction.

a. sibilant

b. scintillating

c. diverting

d. sinuous

e. scurrilous

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

a. compulsory

b. manifest

c. prolific

d. commensurate

e. precluded

8. 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

9. The settlers found an ideal location with plenty of ________ land for farming and a mountain stream for fresh water and irrigation.

a. candid

b. provincial

c. arable

d. timid

e. quaint

10. 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