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I bet you have a way with words!

Wish to stop for a moment to check with your vocab capability? Here’s a random list of questions to see if you could complete each sentence with a proper word using the context and the given letters as a clue.

 




    1.  Everyone needs sweetness in life. That is why she always dul________________ her morning tea by adding the best quality honey from the local farmer’s market.

(*a verb meaning “to sweeten…”)

 

    2.  Her grandma is such a grumpy lady that everybody in her neighborhood calls her a nasty cur_____________.

(*noun meaning “a bad-tempered” person who is an old one)

 

    3.  Well, if you really want your hubby to do something special to celebrate your anniversary with him, you need to put a b_________ in his ear in advance.

(*idiom meaning “to give somebody a hint/ warning/ or suggestions)

 

    4.  It is hard to work with someone who constantly ____pines about every nitty gritty of the project.

(*verb meaning “to complain about …./ to grumble about ….”)

 

5.  I think Jeff was able to grow his small start-up into a successful business empire because of his financial acu_______________.

(*noun meaning “characteristic penetration combined with keen practical judgment”)


6. Much to his cha_____________, she was not invited to Ted’s birthday party. She felt so disappointed and sad.

(*noun meaning “disquietude or distress of mind caused by humiliation, disappointment, or failure”)

 

7.  Quite often times, people take umb______________ at politicians’ hidden agenda and efforts to manipulate them.

(*noun meaning “a feeling of pique or resentment at some often fancied slight or insult”)

 

   8.  Patients need to understand that doctors and nurses have to tri_____________ patients in the ER, but it is painfully challenging for them to wait for their turns to be treated.

(*noun meaning “the sorting of patients (as in an emergency room) according to the urgency of their need for care”)

  

    9.  Mr. Miller told the team to stop ab___________ing their duties and responsibilities by being a procrastinator.

(*verb meaning “to fail to do what is required by (something, such as a responsibility”)

 

   10. After enduring the ad _____________ discussions about budget cuts, the employees felt mentally drained.

(*adjective and/or adverb meaning “causing extreme weariness or annoyance” or “emphasizing the extent or frequency of an action to the point of causing annoyance”)

 

 

 


Answer Keys 

    1.  dulcifies

    2.  curmudgeon

    3.  bug

    4.  repines

    5.  acumen

    6.  chagrin

    7.  umbrage

    8.  triage

    9.  abrogating

    10. ad nauseum

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