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. Whenever Tom and I would argue he would ________ with his hands and body to accentuate his point.

a. interject

b. infuse

c. gesticulate

d. conjure

e. encumber

2. 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

3. Aidan, who has always been painfully shy, was very ________ by the news that he would have to do a presentation in front of his classmates.

a. discomfited

b. circumvented

c. relegated

d. promulgated

e. castigated

4. The deadline has been moved to this Friday, so we must ________ our efforts and complete the project earlier than we had planned.

a. wane

b. ruminate

c. burnish

d. pilfer

e. expedite

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. Oscar ________ his sister not to tell their mother what he had done, for he knew his punishment would be severe.

a. beguiled

b. vied

c. exhorted

d. maligned

e. corroborated

7. In such a small office setting, the office manager found he had ________ responsibilities that required knowledge in a variety of different topics.

a. heedless

b. complementary

c. mutual

d. manifold

e. correlative

8. During his ________ in office the mayor made several controversial decisions about city planning.

a. treatise

b. integration

c. teem

d. flout

e. tenure

9. ________ laughter came from the upstairs apartment where Trang was having a graduation party.