Vocabulary in Context - 1

Vocabulary in Context

15 Questions Published

Questions

Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill in the given blank space with the most appropriate option.

As a _________________ of riots, the minority population left the town.

  1. backwash
  2. corollary
  3. conclusion
  4. product
  5. culmination
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill in the given blank space with the most appropriate option.

Your _________ ways will have you expelled indefinitely, if you persist in your ways of insulting the teachers.

  1. adumbrate
  2. ascetic
  3. aberrant
  4. assiduous
  5. dissonant
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill in the given blank space with the most appropriate option.

This should have been a thriller, but instead is totally ________.

  1. brusque
  2. myriad
  3. jaded
  4. cynical
  5. banal
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill in the given blank space with the most appropriate option.

Besides being a good actress, she deserves more ____________ for being a gem of a person.

  1. plaudits
  2. boos
  3. obdurates
  4. paeans
  5. churls
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill in the given blank space with the most appropriate option.

People forced the new government to __________ all the draconian laws made by the older regime.

  1. rescind
  2. reinstate
  3. promulgate
  4. stupefy
  5. venerate
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill in the given blank space with the most appropriate option.

The revolutionary ideologist was arrested and tortured into falsely confessing ___________ and executed.

  1. heresy
  2. chasm
  3. brook
  4. hegemony
  5. ensconce
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill in the given blank space with the most appropriate option.

The _______ refugees at the relief camps were given peanuts in the name of grants.

  1. emancipated
  2. emaciated
  3. lean
  4. sinewy
  5. wiry
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill in the given blank space with the most appropriate option.

He pretended to _______ the cause of the Republicans, but he played his cards so subtly as to make himself the duke de facto if not de jure.

  1. niggle
  2. espouse
  3. glean
  4. excerpt
  5. stimulate
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill in the given blank space with the most appropriate option.

Her __________ manner and her advocacy of the cause, though always sincere, were vehement to the point of recklessness.

  1. poignant
  2. agonizing
  3. excruciating
  4. gauche
  5. brusque
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill in the given blank space with the most appropriate option.

The changes in the policies by the new head of state were at once agreed upon by the __________ bureaucrats and the council of ministers.

  1. legerdemain
  2. reticent
  3. diffident
  4. assertive
  5. obsequious
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill in the given blank space with the most appropriate option.

The media is keeping a cautious approach to _________ the communal riots which happened last year.

  1. pioneer
  2. broach
  3. cajole
  4. wheedle
  5. guile
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill in the given blank space with the most appropriate option.

If you want to write prose, you can infuse words with your own vision without becoming __________.

  1. lance
  2. ectopic
  3. enteric
  4. esoteric
  5. acrid
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill in the given blank space with the most appropriate option.

Looking at the weather picture, the weathermen __________ very heavy rainfall in the coastal areas.

  1. herald
  2. portend
  3. precursor
  4. extol
  5. harangue
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill in the given blank space with the most appropriate option.

After the victory, the media lavished _________ on the winners and hurled abuses on the losers.

  1. adulation
  2. glorification
  3. veneration
  4. condescension
  5. polemic
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill in the given blank space with the most appropriate option.

The paintings by this artist have been always a work of flamboyant and flawed ____________, which remain as seditious and confronting as ever.

  1. polemic
  2. billow
  3. harangue
  4. bilk
  5. hiatus