Contextual Clues - Vocabulary in Context (Hard)
Choose the most appropriate word to complete sentences using contextual clues. Tests advanced vocabulary and precise word usage.
Questions
Directions: Choose the most appropriate word from the given options and complete the sentence.
He is ____ dancer.
- a dextrous
- an adept
- an adapt
- an adopt
Directions: Choose the correct option to fill in the blank.
When I asked them about who had broken the window, the children __________ ignorance.
- <font face="Arial">feigned</font>
- effected
- <font face="Arial">distorted</font>
- acted
Directions: Fill in the blanks with an appropriate word.
Mrs. Jones resented the _______ that she is not a lady of a warm nature.
- elusions
- <font face="Arial">innuendo</font>
- <font face="Arial">allegation</font>
- <font face="Arial">retort</font>
Directions: Select the most appropriate word from the options offered and fill in the blank.
Despite the unsavoury conditions in which he lived, he remained _____ in his personal habits.
- fatuous
- fastidious
- fallacious
- facetious
Directions: Choose the appropriate word or phrase and complete the sentence.
Even at the risk of economic loss, he ________ refused to take the beaten track.
- repeatedly
- steadfastly
- continuously
- regularly
Directions: Choose the correct option to fill in the blank.
Even in today's modern society, people _______ God to bring rain.
- evoke
- provoke
- propitiate
- appeal
Directions: Choose the appropriate word or phrase and complete the sentence.
She did not quite anticipate the _________ of protest.
- hoax
- account
- ignonimity
- stockpile
Directions: Choose the correct option to fill in the blank.
She ________ in the court to save her husband from conviction.
- entangled
- scrubbed
- adjusted
- perjured
Directions: Choose the correct option to fill in the blank.
This article tries to ______ us with problems of poor nations so that we help them more effectively.
- enable
- allow
- convince
- acquaint
Directions: Choose the correct option to fill in the blank.
Man power is the _______ means of converting other resources to mankind's use and benefit.
- inimitable
- insuperable
- indivisible
- indispensable
Directions: Choose the correct option to fill in the blank.
Every one should _____ themselves against illness since medical care has now become expensive.
- insure
- vaccinate
- ensure
- brace
Directions: Choose the correct option to fill in the blank.
Abhay has been ________ with trafficking in drugs and has to appear in court tomorrow.
- charged
- accused
- condemned
- convicted
Directions: Choose the correct option to fill in the blank.
Since one cannot read every book, one should be content with making a ________ selection.
- judicious
- standard
- moderate
- sample
Directions: Choose the correct option to fill in the blank.
He made a slight __________ of judgement for which he had to repent later.
- mistake
- slip
- error
- blunder
Directions: Choose the best option to complete the sentence.
A sanguine outlook is associated with a/an _______.
- rationalist
- socialist
- philanthropist
- optimist