Questions
If you are a good parent you will never ____________ your child’s behaviour when he hits your neighbour’s child without provocation.
- disparage
- militate
- condone
- malign
- adulate
Suresh is an honest guy, but unfortunately he has a sneaky, sinister look - and no one trusts him. Obviously his appearance ___________ against him.
- disparages
- maligns
- abnegates
- militates
- obviates
Manuel’s admission of guilt ___________ Sam, who had originally been accused of the crime.
- abnegated
- absolved
- abated
- acquiesced
- addressed
His lack of __________ led him to invest all his money in a company that had gone out of business.
- resources
- acumen
- adamancy
- affectation
- alacrity
James could hardly wait for his mother-in-law to leave. He carried her bags out to the car with great ___________.
- alacrity
- apathy
- fortitude
- tenacity
- spunk
The boy sat silently as the teacher read aloud her ____________ comments on his performance in the exam.
- acerbic
- acute
- acrid
- either ‘acerbic’ or ‘acute’
- either ‘acerbic’ or ‘acrid’
My grandfather’s gift of several million dollars considerably __________ my financial situation.
- ameliorated
- alleviated
- aggravated
- appreciated
- appropriated
The rabbits __________ the cabbages in our garden last summer. This year we are going to build a better fence.
- expropriated
- appropriated
- misappropriated
- approbated
- maladjusted
We could not make out the ___________ inscription on the old trunk.
- archaic
- archetypal
- arcane
- artful
- artificial
The grades Mr. Gupta gave his students seemed to be ____________. They had nothing to do with what the students had done in the class.
- arcane
- arbitrary
- consistent
- logical
- sensible
The workmen seemed __________ in their effort to get nothing done.
- banal
- astute
- arduous
- assiduous
- ardent
I had to resort to ____________ to get my children to take their baths.
- attrition
- audacity
- approbation
- artifice
- ineptitude
The __________ of the dinner conversation made me fall asleep.
- cacophony
- banality
- cynicism
- depravity
- docility
He seemed __________ at work. He was months behind in his assignments.
- beleaguered
- bemused
- belabored
- castigated
- chastised
Crooked politicians make ___________ denials of various charges levelled against them.
- conditional
- categorical
- blatant
- caustic
- flagrant
My husband is an ___________ optimist. He always looks at life through rose-tinted glasses.
- inveterate
- incorrigible
- insatiable
- consummate
- infallible
He has inherited a substantial fortune from his father. It should __________ his financial worries.
- obviate
- condone
- proscribe
- placate
- equivocate
Menaka has always been an __________. She scoffs at beliefs we hold dear.
- iconoclast
- kleptomaniac
- dipsomaniac
- pantheist
- hypochondriac