Vocabulary Practice Sentences

Which word best completes the sentence?

The _____ for women's right to vote lasted for more than 70 years.

• pivotal

• crusade

• recipient

• deface

Which word best completes the sentence?

The principal threatened to expel any student who _____ school property.

• nauseates

• pivotal

• defaces

• recipient

Which word best completes the sentence?

Eric's terrible driving around the curvy mountainside _____ Joy to the point he had to pull over so she could vomit.

• crusade

• defaced

• pivotal

• nauseated

Which word best completes the sentence?

The eye witness's testimony proved to be the _____ point of the case leading to a guilty verdict.

• pivotal

• recipient

• crusade

• deface

Which word best completes the sentence?

Dr. Seuss was the _____ of a special Pulitzer Prize for his contribution to the education and entertainment of America's children.

• nauseate

• recipient

• pivotal

• crusade

Which word best completes the sentence?

The battery acid was so _____ that it ate away at the floor and left a gapping hole through which you could see the road.

• fallacy

• nauseate

• ruse

• caustic

Which word best completes the sentence?

For many years the United States and Cuba had a trade _____; Cuba could not send products to the U.S. nor could they receive products from the U.S.

• embargo

• ruse

• recipient

• crusade

Which word best completes the sentence?

The _____ that the Earth was flat was disproved when the Spanish sailed around the world.

• caustic

• fallacy

• crusade

• teem

Which word best completes the sentence?

Billy Bob set up an elaborate _____ in order to surprise his wife Jenny with a birthday party.

• teem

• crusade

• ruse

• recipient

Which word best completes the sentence?

The wildlife preserve stocked the stream with trout in hopes that it would be _____ with fish in time for the tourist fishing season.

• defacing

• nauseating

• caustic

• teeming