Question 1

The school boy took it ill that the teacher reproved him for ______________.

Accepted Answer

idleness

Question 2

I was appalled to see their __________ living conditions.

Accepted Answer

wretched

Answer

thriving

Answer

toil

Answer

tyrannical

Question 3

Flowers will not ______ without sunshine.

Accepted Answer

thrive

Answer

burden

Answer

mold

Answer

idle

Question 4

The people rose against the cruel __________.

Accepted Answer

tyrant

Answer

burden

Answer

temperament

Answer

wretch

Question 5

Cool the cake in the ___________ before serving.

Accepted Answer

mold

Answer

temperament

Answer

thrive

Answer

burden

Question 6

He expressed his ___________ at my father's death from cancer.

Accepted Answer

sorrow

Answer

remorse

Answer

temperament

Answer

burden

Question 7

I felt a gloomy _________that something was going to go wrong.

Accepted Answer

foreboding

Question 8

They only invited Jack and Sarah as an _________________.

Accepted Answer

afterthought

Answer

foreboding

Answer

forethought

Question 9

The film was made first and the music was added as an ____________________.

Accepted Answer

afterthought

Question 10

Many hands make a ______________ lighter.

Accepted Answer

burden

Question 11

If you want knowledge&#44; you must __________for it.

Accepted Answer

toil

Question 12

As you look ___________I will forgive you.

Accepted Answer

remorseful

Answer

toiling

Answer

tyrannical

Answer

temperamental

Question 13

We met one _________driving 40 head of cattle in the baking sun&#44; hours from the nearest village.

Accepted Answer

nomad

Question 14

The twins look alike&#44; but they differ in ________________.

Accepted Answer

temperament

Answer

burdens

Answer

abruptness

Answer

sorrow

Question 15

What she did was very unprofessional. She left ____________about 90 minutes into the show.

Accepted Answer

abruptly

Question 16

I felt ______________ about the way things had turned out.

Accepted Answer

wretched

Answer

tyrannical

Answer

thriving

Answer

toil

Question 17

Children ___________ on fresh air and good food.

Accepted Answer

thrive

Answer

idle

Answer

mold

Answer

burden

Question 18

Like all _____________leaders, he demanded unquestioning obedience from his followers.

Accepted Answer

tyrannical

Question 19

Too often we try to __________ our children into something they do not wish to be.

Accepted Answer

mold

Answer

thrive

Answer

temperament

Answer

burden

Question 20

She was appalled at her own lack of __________________.

Accepted Answer

forethought

Question 21

The letter filled him with _____________.

Accepted Answer

foreboding

Answer

forethought

Answer

afterthought

Question 22

We had had the ______________to book places in advance.

Accepted Answer

forethought

Answer

afterthought

Answer

foreboding

Question 23

With a little more ____________ we could have bought the house we really wanted.

Accepted Answer

forethought

Answer

foreboding

Answer

afterthought

Question 24

The manager carries the greatest _____________of responsibility.

Accepted Answer

burden

Answer

forethought

Answer

wretch

Answer

nomad

Question 25

A ___________ of one's choice is not felt.

Accepted Answer

burden

Question 26

The highest reward for man's __________ is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.

Accepted Answer

toil

Answer

burden

Question 27

He seemed to feel no __________ at all.

Accepted Answer

remorse

Answer

toil

Answer

forethought

Answer

wretched

Question 28

He was filled with ___________for not believing her.

Accepted Answer

remorse

Answer

wretched

Answer

forethought

Answer

toil

Question 29

Preston is particularly good at handling _______________people.

Accepted Answer

temperamental

Question 30

Her next remark _____________terminated the conversation.

Accepted Answer

abruptly

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