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Improving Vocabulary Skills Unit 2

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

According to legend vampires are ___ creatures who cannot survive in daylight.

a)

Incoherent

b)

Immaculate

c)

Nocturnal

d)

Conventional

2.

The counseling program to ___ addicts includes job training.

a)

rehabilitate

b)

contrive

c)

ponder

d)

exemplify

3.

Unless figure skaters practice regularly, their skills will ____.

a)

retaliate

b)

degenerate

c)

confiscate

d)

decipher

4.

It may sound___, but a camel can drink twenty-five gallons of water at a time.

a)

implausible

b)

hypothetical

c)

gaunt

d)

nominal

5.

Movie subtitles should be ____ with the spoken words they are translating.

a)

flagrant

b)

hypothetical

c)

incoherent

d)

concurrent

6.

Even the most ___ people have microscopic creatures clinging to their hair.

a)

sinister

b)

immaculate

c)

incoherent

d)

intricate

7.

Measles remains a serious ____ worldwide, killing more than 100,000 people each year.

a)

blight

b)

plagiarism

c)

qualm

d)

prerequisite

8.

The Peace Corps continues to ___ American volunteers to live and work in developing nations.

a)

discern

b)

dispatch

c)

intercede

d)

default

9.

The nation's student loan program is in serious trouble because many students ____ on their payments.

a)

suffice

b)

attest

c)

intercede

d)

default

10.

In a race across New Jersy in 1901, drivers traveling up to thirty miles an hour were arrested for their ___ disregard of the speed limit, which was eight miles an hour.

a)

flagrant

b)

hypothetical

c)

conventional

d)

immaculate