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Word Smart 1 Review A-B

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

He accepted her job offer with ______________.

a)

aesthetic

b)

alacrity

c)

alloy

d)

allusion

2.

The police _______ that the man was murdered but they have given no proof.

a)

allege

b)

alleviate

c)

arcane

d)

appease

3.

You grew up in an ________ household and have never been able to bring yourself to believe in God.

a)

agnostic

b)

adverse

c)

apotheosis

d)

apocryphal

4.

The overall __________ of the room is cozy.

a)

archetype

b)

bastion

c)

ambience

d)

arduous

5.

Don't _______ her piano playing just because you're jealous.

a)

blithe

b)

belittle

c)

beleaguer

d)

austere

6.

Connie was rather _________ by all the attention she was getting.

a)

benevolent

b)

belittled

c)

benigned

d)

bequest

7.

The _______ of the concert disappointed the audience.

a)

bovine

b)

brevity

c)

beset

d)

blasphemy

8.

The ________ of western civilization has been to divorce our thought from our emotions.

a)

bereaved

b)

beset

c)

blasphemy

d)

blight

9.

take possession of by force

a)

ardent

b)

archetype

c)

arduous

d)

appropriate

10.

Patriotism is a ________ veneration of real estate above principles.

a)

arbitrary

b)

archaic

c)

arbiter

d)

apocryphal

11.

Tim was so excited to have an ______ relationship with his new nephew.

a)

banal

b)

avuncular

c)

belligerent

d)

belie

12.

The film is above all a mediation on the optimistic _______ that ‘life goes on’.

a)

axiom

b)

awry

c)

avow

d)

attrition

13.

Perhaps, he is seeking revenge, or perhaps, he is simply looking to ______ the pain.

a)

autonomous

b)

avarice

c)

astute

d)

assuage

14.

Such artful tricks are widely deployed and remarked.

a)

ascetic

b)

artful

c)

augment

d)

audacity

15.

The manager has the right to expect that his workers will be careful and ______.

a)

artifice

b)

assiduous

c)

assimilate

d)

astute

16.

We waited for an ______ moment to make our request.

a)

auspicious

b)

austere

c)

ascendancy

d)

autocratic

17.

The teacher's ________ smile reassured the child

a)

belligerent

b)

benefactor

c)

benevolent

d)

bequest

18.

Despite their _______ attraction to each other they try to stay just friends

a)

bereaved

b)

beset

c)

blasphemy

d)

blatant

19.

Outsiders will continue to suffer the most ________ discrimination.

a)

bereaved

b)

burgeon

c)

burlesque

d)

blatant

20.

she attempted to ______ the subject she had been avoiding all evening.

a)

broach

b)

blasphemy

c)

bureaucracy

d)

bovine