Vocabulary - Sentence Completion - 07

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

1. Through ________, the chef created a creamy sauce by combining brown sugar, butter, and cinnamon in a pan and cooking them over medium-high heat.

a. impasse

b. obscurity

c. decadence

d. diversion

e. liquefaction

2. Todd set up a rope to ________ the part of the exhibit that was offlimits.

a. circumscribe

b. laud

c. efface

d. undulate

e. beguile

3. Niall’s ________ attitude toward the boss is embarrassing; he does nearly everything for him except scratch his nose!

a. subservient

b. subversive

c. subtle

d. sundry

e. surly

4. The busy, ________ fabric of the clown’s tie matched his oversized jacket, which was equally atrocious.

a. mottled

b. bleak

c. credible

d. malleable

e. communicable

5. The villagers locked their doors when they heard about the pirates who were ________ unprotected villages along the island’s coastline.

a. reforming

b. marauding

c. reclaiming

d. conceding

e. recapitulating

6. Arnie becomes so ________ when he talks about painting that it is hard not to be infected by his enthusiasm.

a. laconic

b. circuitous

c. impertinent

d. ardent

e. recalcitrant

7. Victor Frankenstein’s creature was a(n) ________, detested by everyone he met.

a. itinerant

b. anathema

c. cosmopolitan

d. mercenary

e. anomaly

8. ________ were in order as James performed brilliantly on stage in his first role as an understudy.

a. Pathos

b. Ignominies

c. Kudos

d. Subsidies

e. Statutes

9. Rachel’s mother was appalled by the amount of ________ humor on television during hours when young children were still awake.

a. fraudulent

b. senile

c. proportional

d. lascivious

e. laborious

10. This summer’s movies are ________ for audiences of escape-the-heat mindless entertainment—not one film offers a substantive or even plausible plot.

a. privation

b. dulcet

c. jargon

d. fodder

e. germane