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WorksheetsWiden Your Horizon of Vocabulary
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
The science of words and language is known as
philology
palaeontology
Bibliography
entomology
The junction of the Missouri and Mississippi can be called a
crisis
confluence
conference
levee
Because the orator’s speech was high-flown and pretentious, the reporters termed it
bombastic
austere
untruthful
vituperatve
A person who constantly thinks he is sick is a
hypochondriac
misogynist
misanthrope
hyperpituitary
As the waves rose and the ship tossed, many of the passengers felt
queasy
lethargic
subdued
tremulous
One of the time-tested ways of remembering a series of items is known as _______ device.
mnemonic
intellectual
recollected
schematic
The order to stay in one’s bailiwick means that a person should remain in his own
room
district
country
bed
If you want to look up the meaning of a word you consult
a lexicon
a concordance
an encyclopaedia
a rubric
When the courtier had advanced to the highest position attainable he was said to have reached the
vigil
precipice
threshold
pinnacle
Who wrote 'The Monk who sold his Ferrari'?
Dalai Lama
Robin Sharma
Warren Buffet
Henry Ford
