Vocabulary Test

Write the correct word from the Word Box to complete each sentence.

You will not be using all the words.

 

Text Box: anxious        commence       reluctant       appraisal       temptingly       calculations       huaraches proprietor   awesome          cautiously      embroider     peculiar           undeniable        agricultural solitary        weathered      fretting         brailled         shimmied         illumination       derailment premises      furrowed         circular         dampened     trough

 

 

 

 

 

  1. As the teacher looked over her class,  it was ____________ that she was shorter than all of her students.
  2. Because Penn State is an __________________ school, the students can see animals being born and crops being harvested.
  3. The sign said, “WARNING… Stay off these ____________ or risk being shot.”
  4. There is so much ____________ on Time Square at night that it looks like it’s the middle of the day.
  5. Cheryl was very ____________ about the test because she knew she hadn’t studied enough.
  6. Their dogs are so frightening that I am ____________ to go into their house.
  7. The driveway at my friend’s house is ____________ so many people can park all around.
  8. Lily _____________ held out the chocolate cookie, but Tammy wouldn’t eat it because she was on a diet.
  9. Looking at the Grand Canyon with its majestic colors and deeply carved canyons is truly ______________.
  10. Because of the ____________, all train travel was cancelled for several days.
  11. The race will not ____________ until everyone is in the correct starting position.
  12. “Stop ______________ about the party.  I’m sure everyone will arrive on time,” soothed Carolyn.
  13.  In the night sky, I could see only one ____________ star.
  14. They ____________ entered the room so as not to wake up the sleeping baby.
  15. The ____________ held enough water for all of the horses in the pen.

 

 

© Ellen Gabor, 2007

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