Vocabulary - Sentence Completion - 10

Vocabulary Examination - Sentence Completion
These tests improve your vocabulary, ability to follow the internal logic of sentences and elimination skill process.

1. Wendell’s prolonged illness was the ________ that ignited his interest in science and led to his illustrious career in medical research.

a. hyperbole

b. catalyst

c. penchant

d. insolence

e. caveat

2. After her relationship ended, Patty, feeling ________, insisted on playing sad love songs repeatedly.

a. infallible

b. plausible

c. formative

d. mawkish

e. persuasive

3. The ________ of our expedition was still so far away that I felt we would never get there.

a. nadir

b. terminus

c. speculation

d. apex

e. dungeon

4. As she walked through the halls of her old grade school, Madeline became ________, remembering her old friends and teachers.

a. prolific

b. nostalgic

c. credulous

d. precocious

e. ambitious

5. Every evening at the restaurant, the reporter would eavesdrop on the Mayor’s conversations in order to ________ any information that could make headlines.

a. ignore

b. glean

c. extol

d. extend

e. narrate

6. The children were ________ by the seemingly nonsensical clues until Kinan pointed out that the messages were in code.

a. censured

b. striated

c. feigned

d. prevaricated

e. flummoxed

7. After making ________ remarks to the President, the reporter was not invited to return to the White House pressroom.