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WorksheetsSem2 Vocab Weeks 16-19 Sentences
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
1. German Shepherds are known for the great _____ they show toward their masters.
a)
panacea
b)
fidelity
c)
kudos
d)
hedonism
2.
2. Draco ____________ Harry with insults, hoping to start a fight.
a)
honed
b)
bolstered
c)
regaled
d)
goaded
3.
3. In the church pageant, I play the role of Greed __________.
a)
incarnate
b)
incorrigible
c)
precocious
d)
innocuous
4.
4. You can buy Grandma all of the nicotine gum you want, but she's _________; after 65 years of smoking, she has no interest in stopping.
a)
tenuous
b)
forlorn
c)
incorrigible
d)
curtail
5.
5. The girl's ________ reading of the poem bored the audience.
a)
prosaic
b)
profuse
c)
profane
d)
prorogue
6.
6. My grandfather's large and vicious guard dog _________ anyone from entering his yard.
a)
traversed
b)
precluded
c)
enshrouded
d)
reprieved
7.
7. Doogie Howser was so academically _____________ that he earned his medical degree by the age of 16.
a)
precocious
b)
bourgeois
c)
profane
d)
blithe
8.
8. The mature senior rolled her eyes at her little brother's _________ , gross-out humor.
a)
blatant
b)
plausible
c)
languid
d)
sophomoric
9.
9. Penelope's faithfulness to Odysseus required that she be __________ as she schemed to put off her many suitors.
a)
decorum
b)
dindicate
c)
stoic
d)
maudlin
10.
10. The reality of ____________mortgage payments turned my parent's dream home into a nightmare.
a)
onerous
b)
epicure
c)
lithe
d)
aloof
11.
11. The student's _______ expression convinced the P.E. teacher to call the school nurse for help.
a)
trite
b)
pallid
c)
odious
d)
pious
12.
12. A mother's love might not be a true ___________, but it's pretty close.
a)
hone
b)
livid
c)
panacea
d)
trite
13.
13. I asked Ray's girlfriend an ____________ question, but she took it the wrong way and became angry with me.
a)
innocuous
b)
reprehensible
c)
nomadic
d)
tedium
14.
14. When the ____________ king decided to compromise rather than send his soldiers to their certain death, he was applauded by all.
a)
saccharin
b)
jaundiced
c)
winsome
d)
judicious
15.
15. The interior designer admired my ____________ of the purple couch with the orange table.
a)
epicure
b)
decorum
c)
tome
d)
juxtaposition
16.
16. After the performance, the reviewers gave the dance troupe ________ for a job well done.
a)
KitKats
b)
kudos
c)
posterity
d)
juxtoposition
17.
17. The people in my family are born with a ___________ for hard work.
a)
proclivity
b)
odious
c)
incorrigible
d)
stoic
18.
18. Jacob's _____ act of dumping frogs into the holy water in the chapel as his boarding school resulted in his expulsion.
a)
pious
b)
profane
c)
prosaic
d)
stoic
19.
19. When she spilled red wine on the bride's dress, my cousin offered ___________ apologies.
a)
odious
b)
lackluster
c)
profuse
d)
clandestine
20.
20. The U.S. Senate's criticism was seen as interference in China's _____ affairs.
a)
sovereign
b)
sacrosanct
c)
verbose
d)
boorish
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