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Vocabulary Building Exercise - 174
1.
Demolition?
a) Destruction
b) Culture in which men are the most powerful members
c) Food shortage
d) Fragment
2.
Upbraid?
a) Attractive
b) Calm down
c) Arrogant
d) Criticize somebody
3.
Grinning?
a) Steal
b) Smile
c) Rigid
d) Luggage boat
4.
Grocer?
a) Food seller
b) Incompetent
c) Simple-minded
d) Bombardment
5.
Utilitarian?
a) Robber
b) Dictator
c) Useful
d) Medicine seller
6.
Procured?
a) Punished
b) Scratch
c) Obtain
d) Coiled
7.
Bully?
a) Marsh
b) Fraud
c) Revolt
d) Harass
8.
Elicited?
a) Luggage boat
b) Bring out
c) Berth
d) Shameless talker
9.
Glassblower?
a) Crossbreed
b) Thinning or weakening
c) Glass maker
d) Bombardment
10.
Havoc?
a) Fragment
b) Saturated
c) Devastation
d) Undergrowth
11.
Auspicious?
a) Drug selling
b) Local people
c) Fortunate
d) Tirelessly
12.
Thwarting?
a) Ill-mannered
b) Tired expression
c) Home of bees
d) Uncomfortable
13.
Rubrics?
a) Gathered
b) Title or heading
c) Devastation
d) Funny
14.
Mythical?
a) Very negative person
b) Legendary
c) Burning
d) Horror
15.
Crutch?
a) Hungry
b) Obtain
c) Variety
d) Support
16.
Braggart?
a) Bring out
b) Shameless talker
c) Result
d) Upset
17.
Narrative?
a) Waterless
b) Phrase spoken repeatedly by crowd
c) Obscure
d) Description
18.
Abduct?
a) Kidnap
b) Terrible
c) Phrase spoken repeatedly by crowd
d) Insensitive
19.
Cursory?
a) Rigorous
b) Calm down
c) Superficial
d) Supposed
20.
Unpalatable?
a) Careful
b) Reluctantly
c) Unpleasant
d) Unkindly
21.
Shied?
a) Opposition
b) Troubled
c) Shy
d) Cone-shaped tool
22.
Adequate?
a) Imitate
b) Given up
c) Sufficient
d) Criticize strongly
23.
Treats with?
a) Community
b) Germ-free
c) Marsh
d) Pleasure with
24.
Rampant?
a) Cone-shaped tool
b) Coiled
c) Accused
d) Uncontrolled
25.
Tether?
a) Depressed
b) Result
c) Uncontrolled
d) Join
26.
Insurrection?
a) Revolt
b) Vague
c) Smile
d) Shocked
27.
Premonition?
a) Feeling
b) To divide something into separate areas
c) Push
d) Swing back and forth
28.
Able-bodied?
a) Humble
b) Too little
c) Healthy
d) Delicate
29.
Waived?
a) Ignored
b) Criticize somebody
c) Rattling
d) Untrue
30.
Assault?
a) Respected
b) Supposed
c) Arrogant
d) Physical attack
31.
Candor?
a) Falter
b) Frankness
c) Hidden
d) Have need of
32.
Retinue?
a) Depend on something
b) Talk to
c) Followers
d) Arranged rank wise
33.
Despot?
a) Cruelly
b) Laugh at
c) Dictator
34.
Fabricated?
a) Pleasure with
b) Untrue
c) Inadequate
d) Dull and gloomy
35.
Perturbed?
a) Troubled
b) Memorial
c) Healthy
d) Landscape
36.
Herd?
a) Frighten
b) Flock
c) Support financially
d) Edge
37.
Sterile?
a) unfit for reproduction
b) Make stronger
c) Harass
d) Sufficient
38.
Awe?
a) Obtain
b) Changed
c) Reproductive structure
d) Fear
39.
Lag?
a) Delay
b) Fragment
c) Salary
d) Dangerously
40.
Clods?
a) Assumed names
b) Large piece of earth
c) Court order
d) Tall and thin
41.
Disarming?
a) Thrifty
b) Attractive
c) Inducement
d) Evaluate
42.
Placid?
a) Edge
b) Insufficient
c) Landscape
d) Easygoing
43.
Arid?
a) Thoughtfully
b) Driven away
c) Waterless
d) Unenthusiastic
44.
Compartmentalized?
a) To divide something into separate areas
b) Evaluate
c) Friendly
d) Sad
45.
Stolid?
a) Insensitive
b) Driven away
c) Destruction
d) Sing to
46.
Egregious?
a) Outrageously bad
b) Made smaller
c) Angry
d) Initiated
47.
Inoffensive?
a) Harmless
b) Short periods
c) Ordinary
d) Uneatable
48.
Overheated?
a) Initiated
b) Too little
c) Shocking
d) Inflamed
49.
Ungainly?
a) Lack of feeling
b) Pointed
c) Deem
d) Clumsy
50.
Cessation?
a) Complainer
b) Revolt
c) Termination
d) Be unwilling to do something
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