Vocabulary
Practice advanced vocabulary by filling in the blanks with the most appropriate words in various contexts.
Questions
Directions: Fill in the blank with the appropriate word.
I went to the theater; the music was and the scenery poor.
- articulate
- melodious
- execrable
- sedulous
- endearing
Directions: Fill in the blank with the appropriate word.
My uncle was an austere and saintly man who was reputed never to have sent away a troubled man without giving him ___
- scour
- succour
- adulation
- chimera
- shimmering
Directions: Fill in the blank with the appropriate word.
The priest remarked that God has laid the ______ of some sin on his head.
- expropriate
- onus
- expiation
- abnegate
- scurry
Directions: Fill in the blank with the appropriate word.
He suffers from rheumatism and his son acts as his____
- amanuensis
- dilettante
- skeptic
- servile
- egregious
Directions: Fill in the blank with the appropriate word.
Overweight teenagers who were spoken to by their parents about their weight are likely to engage in ______ eating and use unhealthy weight control behaviours.
- austere
- binge
- passionate
- saturnine
- emollient
Directions: Fill in the blank with the appropriate word.
A man who accuses everyone else besides himself of being mad and who is disposed to listen to a tale of graveyard can hardly be quite sane.
- blasphemous
- apparitions
- ribald
- peripatetic
- periphery
Directions: Fill in the blank with the appropriate word.
As they still treated me with the same _______ attention as before, I was utterly at a loss how to account for their singular conduct.
- nebulous
- maladroit
- cumbrous
- sedulous
- scorching
Directions: Fill in the blank with the appropriate word.
Politics is no longer the ______ of the classes but the property of the masses.
- prodigious
- parish
- monopoly
- visage
- alter
Directions: Fill in the blank with the appropriate word.
The best homage that can be paid to a hero is not to raise any memorial for him , for the only fit memorial is to follow _______ in the path he showed us.
- malicious
- reverently
- antipathy
- disdain
- desolate
Directions: Fill in the blank with the appropriate word.
They sent me their own ______ and drink, and took the government of the ship to themselves
- buccaneer
- camouflage
- musk
- victuals
- acrimony
Directions: Fill in the blank with the appropriate word.
Zeno told the Cardinal that he had become and such a person had no right to remain in office.
- discreet
- interment
- esoteric
- exoteric
- profane
Directions: Fill in the blank with the appropriate word.
Jam Sahib was a true cricketer; he was not a miser hoarding up runs but a millionaire spending them with a splendid yet judicious _____.
- economy
- extravagant
- prodigality
- perplexity
- prognosis
Directions: Fill in the blank with the appropriate word.
Thinking that I had seen enough about the land, full of _______ and aversion, I got up and pursued the beaten road.
- bliss
- apathy
- benediction
- contempt
- diversion
Directions: Fill in the blank with the appropriate word.
Supposing you have to make a payment of Rs. 100. You can do so in rupee notes; but it would be ______ to pay in nickle or coppers coins because they can be heavy to carry.
- confounding
- cumbersome
- unpalatable
- obnoxious
- optimum
Directions: Fill in the blank with the appropriate word.
In this world there are men who are entirely ______ but for an easily ruffled, quick tempered or touchy disposition.
- perfect
- appalling
- debauched
- contentious
- complacent