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Sophisticated English words; fifth phase

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which are the synonyms of cajole?

a)

Persuade

b)

Blemish

c)

Blandish

d)

Coax

e)

Bilk

2.

If something is colossal it means it has a (a)   size.

3.

Who would most likely be a bourgeois?

a)

Someone who deals with village and crop problems

b)

A capitalist who deals with commerce

c)

Someone who abets people

d)

A member of the government organization

4.

Cacophony means ;

a)

A quarrel between people

b)

An atrocious combination of sounds

c)

Rhythm of beautiful sounds

d)

Blaming of others

5.

Where can benign be used decently?

a)

Medicine

b)

English literature

c)

Food industry

d)

Real life

6.

If someone makes an altercation with their professor it means they are brazen.

a)

True

b)

False

7.

Who cannot be a bard here?

a)

A person who receives romantic letters

b)

A lyric poet

c)

Shakespeare

d)

A singer

8.

What is shown in the photo?

a)

A burnish

b)

A buffet

c)

A meal organisation

d)

A butress

9.

For which reason would someone not judge accurately?

a)

A biased thought

b)

Cacophony

c)

Cajolement

d)

Arrogance

10.

If you are bereft of someone you love, you experience a calamity.

a)

True

b)

False

11.

Balk means to accede with not being obedient.

a)

True

b)

False

12.

If someone has many blemishes, they are good at blandishing others.

a)

False

b)

True

13.

Blight is a synonym of blemish.

a)

True

b)

False

14.

A bane can be:

a)

An ability to cajole

b)

Bad attributes

c)

Bashfulness

d)

An erroneous attitude

15.

Who is most likely successful to beguile you?

a)

A bombastic person

b)

Someone offering a boon

c)

A person who is boisterous and benevolent

d)

Someone berating you

16.

What is the person in the photo doing?

a)

Bilking

b)

Calibrating

c)

Beseeching

d)

Being brazen

17.

How would you describe the girl in the photo?

a)

Benevolent

b)

Boisterous

c)

Brazen

d)

Bombastic

18.

Try to buttress the points you make in these chapters with some details and more benign information.

In this sentence it is implied :

a)

The text is brusque and needs burnishment

b)

The story is brusque and calibration would ameliorate it

c)

The book is lacking info but it is benign

d)

It is short, so, it needs blandishment

19.

What you most probably would bequeath?

a)

A cadence

b)

A house

c)

A daughter

d)

An ice-cream

20.

Note how the author's seemingly banal insights into his own life come together to form a coherent, devastating whole.

Banal in this context means :

a)

Berate

b)

Not appealing

c)

Brazen

d)

Tedious and plain