The Daily Practice

Following is the excercise for the day. After you have selected the answers click on Check Answers to check your answers. The answers would be displayed in a new window. You must have a Javascript enabled browser to see this page. Although you can easily cheat on these practice tests and any other tests in your life, you would in fact be cheating yourself in life. Its your choice :)

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1. The comet, a ________ body of ice and dust, suddenly appeared 300 times as bright as predicted.
Quiescent
Brilliant
Fragile
Palpable

2. Corporates love to have celebrities to ______ for their products, the better know the star is, more convincing is their pitch.
Starve
Crave
Care
Shill

3. When mary sold the garden, she retained the ________ to pick the apples from the orchard she had planted.
Usurp
Usufruct
Sense
Blight

4. Though James laughed at Jill's _______ remarks about him, inside he felt deeply hurt.
Praising
Morbid
Mordant
Dull

5. Good and evil are effectively ______ in the movie, and thus a good conclusion is arrived at.
Juxtaposed
Scorned at
Abused
Absent

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