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WorksheetsSadlier Level D Unit 1 Sentences
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
The landowner put up “Posted” signs along his property line to _____ hunters against trespassing.
a)
efface
b)
deadlock
c)
admonish
d)
relinquish
2.
Before the invention of modern artillery, various kinds of stone-throwing devices were used to _____ the walls of enemy fortifications.
a)
admonish
b)
relinquish
c)
breach
d)
predispose
3.
A band of _____ waylaid the traveler on a lonely stretch of road and robbed him of all he possessed.
a)
deadlocks
b)
perennials
c)
brigands
d)
dilemmas
4.
The wily old general was as _____ in planning his campaign as his junior officers were reckless and foolhardy on the battlefield.
a)
diffuse
b)
opinionated
c)
circumspect
d)
spasmodic
5.
Midway through the flight, a group of skyjackers _____ the jumbo jet.
a)
commandeered
b)
salvaged
c)
diffused
d)
relinquished
6.
In contrast to the sleek, portable laptops of today, early computers were large, _____ machines that could often occupy entire rooms.
a)
cumbersome
b)
circumspect
c)
perennial
d)
spurious
7.
When the great battle had become _____, the allies brought up a mass of fresh troops to throw at their exhausted enemies.
a)
breached
b)
relinquished
c)
deadlocked
d)
salvaged
8.
During a severe earthquake even the sturdiest buildings may topple, sending of all kinds of _____ crashing to the ground.
a)
breach
b)
dilemma
c)
debris
d)
muddle
9.
The cloud of tear gas quickly _____ throughout the bunker, driving out an army of coughing, choking defenders.
a)
commandeered
b)
diffused
c)
admonished
d)
effaced
10.
The phrase “a no-win situation” accurately describes the kind of insoluble _____ all of us find ourselves in at one time or another.
a)
brigand
b)
dilemma
c)
salvage
d)
perennial
11.
Only time and tender loving care can _____ the effects of war on the imagination of a young child.
a)
admonish
b)
commandeer
c)
predispose
d)
efface
12.
I was in such a mental _____ that day that I truly didn’t know whether I was coming or going.
a)
muddle
b)
perennial
c)
debris
d)
brigand
13.
The managing editor was dismayed to find that the new reporter’s stories were more _____ than accurate.
a)
diffuse
b)
perennial
c)
opinionated
d)
spasmodic
14.
The local nursery offers a wide assortment of flowers and plants, ranging from delicate annuals to hardy _____.
a)
brigands
b)
dilemmas
c)
perennials
d)
deadlocks
15.
“Nothing in either your or your family’s medical history indicates that you are _____ to heart disease,” the doctor informed her patient.
a)
relinquished
b)
salvaged
c)
predisposed
d)
breached
16.
King Alfred the Great was a stubborn man who never _____ his hope of achieving victory over the Danish invaders of his realm.
a)
breached
b)
commandeered
c)
salvaged
d)
relinquished
17.
A fire captain ordered the anxious homeowners to wait to _____ their belongings until the last embers were extinguished and the ashes cooled.
a)
salvage
b)
deadlock
c)
breach
d)
muddle
18.
Occasional rumblings and _____ puffs of smoke indicated that the volcano was far from dormant.
a)
spasmodic
b)
perennial
c)
spurious
d)
opinionated
19.
The _____ claims involved in insurance fraud cost companies and honest policyholders millions of dollars every year.
a)
spurious
b)
opinionated
c)
cumbersome
d)
circumspect
20.
Though most Russians lived in extreme poverty and want during the last years of the tsarist regime, there were some who led lives of _____ excess.
a)
unbridled
b)
spurious
c)
circumspect
d)
spasmodic
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