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. The teacher was dismissed for the ________ act of helping his students cheat on the exam.

a. steadfast

b. meritorious

c. unconscionable

d. pristine

e. fortuitous

2. The devoted fans paid ________ to the late singer by placing flowers on his memorial and by holding burning votive candles.

a. tariffs

b. accouterment

c. retrospection

d. appraisement

e. homage

3. I am ________ of the problems that this solution will cause, but I still believe that this is the best possible solution.

a. innocuous

b. cognizant

c. precipitous

d. reminiscent

e. belligerent

4. After the debate, Karim ________ upon many of the campaign issues in a series of detailed editorials.

a. expounded

b. ebbed

c. doffed

d. temporized

e. wrought

5. As Ramiro strolled through his old neighborhood, he noticed sounds and smells that were ________ of his childhood.

a. belligerent

b. malleable

c. reminiscent

d. recondite

e. incessant

6. The ski lodge had a window that looked out upon a beautiful mountain ________.

a. vista

b. melee

c. fray

d. foray

e. frieze

7. Ethan’s responses when he spoke on the telephone were ________ and he nearly always made his customers think he was rude.

a. receptive

b. laconic

c. uncanny

d. suave

e. ponderous

8. The town board heard many outraged and ________ arguments from the citizens against the destruction of some wooded areas in order to build a new mall.

a. tenuous

b. vociferous

c. vacuous

d. satisfied

e. egregious

9. My ancestor who lost his life in the Revolutionary War was a ________ for American independence.

a. knave

b. reactionary

c. compatriot

d. nonconformist

e. martyr

10. Tony was tired of roommate’s petty ________ about his personal life, so he moved out.