English Questions: Vocabulary test – 47

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1. she made a_____________effort to hold her anger in check.
   1) Inclination
   2) animosity
   3) antipathy
   4) valiant
   5) None of these
   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 4)
   Explanation : valiant  – possessing or showing courage or determination.

   
   
2. in the view of the Court the sentence was too__________.
   1) crazy
   2) turbulent
   3) lenient
   4) legal
   5) None of these
   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 3)
   Explanation : lenient – (of a punishment or person in authority) more merciful or tolerant than expected.

   
   
3. Recovering the initial outlay plus____________interest
   1) averted
   2) fostered
   3) imputed
   4) ourished
   5) None of these
   Answer & Explanation

   Answer –  3)
   Explanation : imputed – represent (something, especially something undesirable) as being done or possessed by someone; attribute.

   
   
4. he went about his illegal business with a___________brazen assurance.
   1) refined
   2) brazen
   3) unsullied
   4) sterile
   5) None of these
   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 2)
   Explanation : brazen – bold and without shame.

   
   
5. Their entirely predictable and usually___________opinions.
   1) gracious
   2) polished
   3) advanced
   4) jejune
   5) None of these
   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 4)
   Explanation : jejune – naive, simplistic, and superficial.

   
   
6. she sensed that her accent made her sound___________.
   1) uppish
   2) discerning
   3) highbrow
   4) imbecile
   5) None of these
   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 1)
   Explanation : uppish – arrogantly self-assertive.

   
   
7. kids who feel so___________and think the world will revolve around them.
   1) appease
   2) entitled
   3) recompense
   4) gladden
   5) None of these
   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 2)
   Explanation : entitled  – believing oneself to be inherently deserving of privileges or special treatment.

   
   
8. she saw the insults as__________of his own tortured personality.
   1) bombastic
   2) laconic
   3) emanations
   4) diffuse
   5) None of these
   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 3)
   Explanation : emanations  – something which originates or issues from a source.

   
   
9. No money can compensate her for her__________grievous injuries.
   1) plaintive
   2) oscillate
   3) grievous
   4) pithy
   5) None of these
   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 3)
   Explanation : grievous – (of something bad) very severe or serious.

   
   
10. he became restless and____________of change.
    1) evident
    2) ordain
    3) apparent
    4) desirous
    5) None of these
    
    Answer & Explanation

    Answer – 4)
    Explanation : desirous – having or characterized by desire.