{"id":434,"date":"2015-01-04T11:20:35","date_gmt":"2015-01-04T11:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=434"},"modified":"2015-01-04T11:20:35","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T11:20:35","slug":"english-vocabulary-exercise-sentence-completion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/english-vocabulary-exercise-sentence-completion\/","title":{"rendered":"English vocabulary exercise | Sentence completion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Complete the given sentences using an appropriate word or phrase.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. Meera was extremely angry but I \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026 her by promising to leave her house and never return.<\/p>\n

a) assuaged
\nb) assimilated
\nc) augmented
\nd) belabored
\ne) belied<\/p>\n

2. More research needs to be done in how to \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026 conservation needs with growing demand for natural resources.<\/p>\n

a) align
\nb) oblige
\nc) reconcile
\nd) authorize
\ne) relieve<\/p>\n

3. \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026 by her friends, she lost all hope.<\/p>\n

a) Forsaken
\nb) Forbidden
\nc) Forlorn
\nd) Forgiven
\ne) Fostered<\/p>\n

4. A \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.. study found the site suitable for building the airport.<\/p>\n

a) natural
\nb) calculated
\nc) economic
\nd) feasibility
\ne) viability<\/p>\n

5. His party should be blamed for the political \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026 in the country.<\/p>\n

a) stalemate
\nb) revival
\nc) devaluation
\nd) advocacy
\ne) momentum<\/p>\n

6. Work on the project cannot start until the planning authority gives \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026 to the development.<\/p>\n

a) estimate
\nb) projection
\nc) consent
\nd) compliance
\ne) accent<\/p>\n

7. We won\u2019t be able to maintain our competitive advantage without \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026 this deal.<\/p>\n

a) culminating
\nb) clinching
\nc) canvassing
\nd) crossing
\ne) earning<\/p>\n

8. A series of financial blunders \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026. in the collapse of one of the largest banking institutions in the world.<\/p>\n

a) culminated
\nb) coincided
\nc) coexisted
\nd) accentuated
\ne) acceded<\/p>\n

9. Man is \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026; however, he needs mental companionship more than physical companionship.<\/p>\n

a) egoistic
\nb) altruistic
\nc) sentimental
\nd) gregarious
\ne) kleptomaniac<\/p>\n

10. Susie\u2019s decision to marry her best friend\u2019s ex-boyfriend left me \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026 I couldn\u2019t figure out why she should want to do it.<\/p>\n

a) nonplussed
\nb) exhausted
\nc) demolished
\nd) refuted
\ne) smothered<\/p>\n

Answers<\/p>\n

1. assuaged; To assuage is to soothe or pacify.<\/p>\n

2. reconcile; To reconcile something with something is to find ways to make them both capable of existing together.<\/p>\n

3. forsaken; To forsake somebody is to leave them when they still need you.<\/p>\n

4. feasibility; Feasibility is the chances that something has of becoming successful. A feasibility study is done to see if something is possible.<\/p>\n

5. stalemate; A stalemate is a situation in which progress is impossible.<\/p>\n

6. consent; Consent is the permission to do something.<\/p>\n

7. clinching; To clinch a deal is to win it by doing one final thing that makes it possible.<\/p>\n

8. culminated; To culminate in something is to happen as the final result of a situation.<\/p>\n

9. gregarious; Gregarious means sociable. Human beings are gregarious because they are fond of the company of others.<\/p>\n

10. nonplussed; To leave someone nonplussed is to perplex them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Complete the given sentences using an appropriate word or phrase. 1. Meera was extremely angry but I \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026 her by promising to leave her house and never return. a) assuaged b) assimilated c) augmented...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocabulary-exercises","tag-vocabulary-exercise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":435,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions\/435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}