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WorksheetsACT Vocabulary Set One
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
In which of the following sentences is disdain used correctly?
Evelyn viewed the hot dog with disdain, believing that to eat
such a disgusting food was beneath her.
The twins were identical but their personalities were disdain.
The psychiatrist was very disdain; no matter how much we
pestered him, he wouldn’t gossip about the problems of his
famous patients.
A referee should be disdained because he or she should not be rooting for one of the competing teams.
Which of the following words completes the sentence correctly?
The old lady kept the motorcycle gang thoroughly amused with ____________ about her cute little dog.
an exasperate
an enervating
coherents
anecdotes
Which of the following sentences is "attribute" used correctly as a verb?
He attributed the firm's success to the efforts made by the team of researchers.
The flexibility and mobility are the key attributes of our army.
It was not until the end of the fifteenth century that the sandglass was depicted as the attribute of Father Time.
The college roommates attributed a grimy existence, surrounded by dirty laundry, rotting garbage, and body odor.
Which one of the following word completes the sentence correctly?
Geoffrey is ______________ to be with after he has failed a test.
bearable
befallen
unbearable
barely
If any mishap befall the queen, the workers can sometimes keep the community from dying out.
In this sentence the word "befall" is best defined as...
something unfortunate has happened
something amazing has happened
a secret is unfolding
something irritating has happened
In which of the following sentences is the word "digress" used correctly as a verb?
I have digressed a little from my original plan.
She claims to be able to digress to the Roman era.
Simon has been digressing toward adolescence for more than a generation now.
He persecuted her with his digress.
Which of the following sentences is the word "coherent" used correctly?
After puzzling over Grace’s disorganized history essay for almost an hour, Ms. Smith needed only twenty
minutes to read Arjun’s coherent paper on the World War II.
The increase in oil prices was the result of coherent by the oil-
producing nations.
The people in our neighborhood coherent into a powerful force for change in the community.
You should wear a coat and carry an umbrella in coherent
weather.
Which of the following words completes the following sentence correctly?
Though ____________, the labor movement has played a key role in creating a new progressive political opposition.
diminished
disdain
haughty
emulated
They hold widely divergent opinions on controversial issues like abortion.
Click the words or phrases that have the same meaning as the highlighted word.
differing in opinion; deviating
insulting or abusive speech
demanding prompt action; urgent
integrity; uprightness; honesty
It is important to be a good listener and show empathy with the individual's situation.
Click on the words or phrases that have the same meaning as the highlighted word.
share or understand the feelings of another
feelings of pity or sorrow
weakening or tiring
arrogance or condescending
In which of the following sentences is "emulate" used correctly as a verb?
The American company emulated its successful Japanese competitor but never quite managed to do as well.
As the city grew, it emulated on the countryside surrounding
it.
My neighbor emulated on my yard by building his new fence a few feet on my side of the property line.
That peculiar strain of influenza was emulated to a small community in South Carolina; there were no cases anywhere else.
Which word completes the following sentence correctly?
The ________ humidity of the coast was enough to make me return to my northern home.
enervating
diminishing
evanescent
impetuous
In which of the following sentences if "evanescent" used correctly?
The widow’s grief was evanescent by the minister’s momentary inability to remember her dead husband’s name.
Meteors are evanescent: They last so briefly that it is hard to tell whether one has actually appeared.
The fender-bender was evanescent when a line of twenty-five
cars plowed into the back of Margaret’s car.
The evanescent math teacher subtracted points for even the most unimportant errors.
The child’s insistence on hopping backward on one foot exasperated his mother, who was in a hurry.
In the above sentence the word exasperate can best be defined as....
to annoy thoroughly; to make very angry; to try the patience of
thorough; rigorous; complete; painstaking
demanding; difficult; requiring great skill or care
to free completely from blame
The exemplary girls stubbornly refused to call off their rock fight, despite the pleadings of their mothers.
In the sentence above the word exemplary can best be described as ...
outstanding; setting a great example
flowing; extravagant
perceptive; intelligent
laziness
Cherrie admitted that she stole the Cracker Jacks, but claimed that there were ___________ circumstances: She had no money to buy food for her pet chameleon.
extenuating
divergent
impetuous
enervating
The new monarch—the first grandchild of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert—was boastful, arrogant and ____________.
impetuous or haughty
exemplary or haughty
camaraderie or impetuous
enervating or fugal
The ______________ Rolls-Royce salesman treated us like peasants until we opened our suitcase full of one-hundred-dollar bills.
haughty
empathy
florid
exasperate
Laura was so frugal that she even tried to bargain with the check out girl at the supermarket.
In the sentence above, the opposite of the word frugal would be
economical; penny-pinching
rich, elaborate, or luxurious
secretive; sly
useless; hopeless
The word "hackneyed" is NOT used correctly in which of the following sentences.
Too often used by young girls, the word “like” has become hackneyed.
Every time my internet goes down, the cable company gives me a hackneyed explanation.
Although I like him as a talk show host, his hackneyed catchphrase is starting to get on my nerves!
Stephen could never seem to think of anything nice to say about any one; virtually all of his comments were hackneyed.
