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

a. Scurrilous

b. Deleterious

c. Fatuous

d. Uproarious

e. Malicious

3. With her ________ eyesight, Krystyna spotted a trio of deer on the hillside and she reduced the speed of her car.

a. inferior

b. keen

c. impressionable

d. ductile

e. conspiratorial

4. Eels swim using a rapid ________ motion that propels them through the water.

a. dissipating

b. undulating

c. eradicating

d. objurgating

e. irritating

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. Ricky is a ________ of the local coffee shop; you can find him there just about every morning.

a. diva

b. relic

c. denizen

d. maverick

e. pariah

9. 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

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