Vocabulary - Sentence Completion - 08

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

1. When we were renovating the old house, we found a(n) ________ of $10 and $20 bills hidden inside the old laundry chute.

a. odyssey

b. matrix

c. lament

d. fodder

e. cache

2. Being able to afford this luxury car will ________ getting a betterpaying job.

a. maximize

b. recombinant

c. reiterate

d. necessitate

e. reciprocate

3. With great ________, we stepped gingerly onto the planks of the dilapidated bridge that spanned a rocky stream twenty feet below.

a. trepidation

b. instigation

c. perdition

d. refraction

e. endowment

4. Some would say Muzak is a(n) ________ form of music, a kind of background noise designed to be heard but not listened to.

a. arable

b. degenerate

c. volatile

d. pivotal

e. exemplary

5. Standing on the ________, the preacher greeted the parishioners every Sunday morning.

a. steeple

b. pillar

c. parvis

d. manifestation

e. sensor

6. NaQuan had a terrible habit of boasting so much about his smallest accomplishments that his ________ became renowned throughout the small college campus.

a. vainglory

b. timidity

c. diffidence

d. tempestuousness

e. mockery

7. My parents always seem to worry and ________ more about money when tax season is approaching.

a. proximate

b. quibble

c. supplicate

d. dabble

e. alienate

8. We could not describe the scene before us; it was filled with such ________ beauty.