WorksheetsUnit 1 Vocabulary
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 6mins
"There's a _____, and increasingly angry mood on the issue. No one talks about it, but everybody is full of resentment.
barren
trivial
sullen
alight
When the ___ ends at noon tomorrow, it will only be a matter of time before gunfire is heard again.
vicious
hurtle
truce
dynasty
It's a great miniature motorbike that you can actually ride and will ____ you about the place at speeds of up to 30mph.
germinate
alight
hurtle
trickle
The pressure to conform to all these ____ values in nowaday's society is absolutely enormous.
adjacent
interminable
vicious
trivial
This was not a ____ creature standing before him, but a breathtakingly beautiful, gigantic wolf.
interminable
trivial
vicious
sullen
His poetry expresses discontent with orderly lives and ______ routine, praising spontaneity and emotion.
vicious
sullen
barren
humdrum
The country was mostly poor and ____, sandy hillocks, with scanty growth of spinifex.
barren
alight
adjacent
sullen
Recent legislation has reduced immigration to a ___.
disrupt
truce
trickle
humdrum
Water is still _____ -ing out of the gutter after last night's heavy rain.
disrupt
renovate
trickle
hurtle
The rain was just a _____ of the approaching hurricane.
truce
foretaste
germinate
trickle
It is feared that low-flying seagulls could ____ events such as beach volleyball.
foretaste
disrupt
hurtle
trickle
