Vocabulary - Sentence Completion - 09

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

1. After her extended illness, Delia experienced a long period of ________ when she did not want to work, exercise, or clean.

a. languor

b. arrogance

c. insolence

d. forethought

e. recompense

2. The settlers decided to build their town at the ________ of two rivers; that settlement became the city of Pittsburgh.

a. veneer

b. lexicon

c. hiatus

d. tirade

e. confluence

3. To ensure that Brenda wouldn’t know where we were going for her birthday, I took the most ________ route I could think of.

a. ardent

b. craven

c. enigmatic

d. circuitous

e. mercurial

4. The river, ________ with new-fallen rain, overflowed its banks and flooded the tiny village in a matter of hours.

a. placated

b. turgid

c. redundant

d. equivalent

e. quarantined

5. Going away for spring break was not in the ________ of possibility, since neither Helga nor Olga had any money.

a. fascism

b. fulcrum

c. introversion

d. realm

e. nadir

6. Because he was so ________, the athlete was able to complete the obstacle course in record time.

a. belligerent

b. nimble

c. demure

d. volatile

e. speculative

7. After weeks of heavy rains, the earth gave way; mud and trees ________ down the mountain swallowing cars and houses in their path.

a. ascended

b. inculcated

c. aspersed

d. hurtled

e. entreated

8. Antonello searched the forest around his campsite for small branches to ________ the fire, so he could eventually cook his dinner.

a. stifle

b. kindle

c. suppress

d. dissipate

e. prohibit

9. The dictator used propaganda and intimidation to ________ the revolution.

a. prelude

b. intimate

c. congregate

d. irradiate

e. quell

10. If he expected to ________ as a doctor, Lou knew he would have to study hard in medical school and work long hours to gain experience and skill.

a. perpetrate

b. palliate

c. palpitate

d. prosper

e. mediate