Sentence Completion (Single Blank)
Vocabulary in Context Test
Questions
Directions: Fill in the blank.
The minister was unwilling to _________________ the delicate subject of gay marriages with just about anyone.
- enunciate
- connote
- vent
- express
- broach
Directions: Fill in the blank.
He was permitted to come out and meet fellow prisoners to ease the _____________ of his captivity.
- lassitude
- apathy
- tedium
- funk
- dolor
Directions: Fill in the blank.
We cannot prosecute someone simply for doing something that we __________.
- deride
- revile
- rue
- scorn
- abhor
Directions: Fill in the blank.
He deserves every _________ he gets for the hard work and labour he has put to make this project a success.
- respect
- accolade
- veneration
- paean
- panegyric
Directions: Fill in the blank.
Michael Jackson was once the object of such ______________ that teenagers screamed and fainted at the sight of him.
- adulation
- flattery
- blarney
- panegyric
- encomium
Directions: Fill in the blank.
Thanks for making your ______________ implications more explicit. It will really help me in making the deal.
- forthright
- lopsided
- fishy
- oblique
- bevel
Directions: Fill in the blank.
Although Tom seems to have a _______________ attitude towards his job, he is really concerned about getting promotions.
- morose
- blithe
- racy
- peppy
- jocund
Directions: Fill in the blank.
This scheme is more likely to make investors _______________ than to reach for their wallets.
- cringe
- fawn
- grovel
- capitulate
- cower
Directions: Fill in the blank.
At the world business summit, while addressing the businessmen from all over the world, the Prime Minister's speech was short, yet ________________.
- surly
- succinct
- verbose
- skimpy
- esoteric
Directions: Fill in the blank.
If caught, the minister and the MLA will _____________ and conspire to conceal the truth.
- contrive
- diddle
- finagle
- cogitate
- collude
Directions: Fill in the blank.
This book is a guide to the ________________ terminologies used in the spying and espionage world.
- occult
- incisive
- arcane
- esoteric
- sardonic
Directions: Fill in the blank.
The ____________ has returned to her miraculously transformed, well-mannered and well-behaved.
- dolt
- dunce
- chump
- boor
- oaf
Directions: Fill in the blank.
In a time of shrinking budgets due to recession, there were very few donations for the _______________.
- miserly
- vulnerable
- thriving
- indigent
- affluent
Directions: Fill in the blank.
For their willingness to work for so little, the migrant labourers are accepted with __________.
- alacrity
- vim
- vivacity
- apathy
- scruple
Directions: Fill in the blank.
He loved the way she could be brash and bold one minute, then bashful and _____________ the next.
- coy
- demure
- loath
- tardy
- parochial