Practice Booster - English

Topic - Double Fillers

Directions: Each sentence below is given with two blanks. Each question is followed by four options with two words in each. You have to select that option as your answer which can fill both the blanks of the sentence respectively.

1. a. Letting out a soft ____________, the janitor couldn’t help but laugh at the ___________ he overheard.
b. My mother began to _____________ at the _____________ of the baby with the gardner in the garden.

1. titter, soliloquy
2. chuckle, conversation
3. chortle, complementary
4. cackle, trade
5. All are correct

2. a. Management is hoping a supply of ______________ snacks and beverages will
______________ the employees in the afternoon.
b. Hopefully the ____________ energy drink will _____________ him so that he could work all night on my paper.

1. free, drain
2. free, enfeeble
3. free, invigorate
4. free, enerate
5. All are correct

3. a. Having money makes you happy is a _________________ because happiness
has nothing to do with _______________ .
b. Mark’s ______________ on the workings of the stock market caused us all to lose
a great deal of _______________.

1. delusion, wealth
2. flaw, riches
3. delicacy, loot
4. fallacy, money
5. All are correct

4. a. We expressed anger and ___________ when we arrived at the hotel after midnight and learned our hotel room had been given to another _________.
b. To the children’s ______________, there was not enough snow in the neighbouring ______________ yard to build a snowman.

1. dread, people
2. delight, clan
3. encourage, kin
4. dismay, family
5. All are correct

5. a. As a politician, Phil hates when reporters wait in ____________________ for an opportunity to pounce on him with their _________________.
b. A suicide bomber waited in _______________ for the right opportunity to detonate his bomb, but was ____________ before he had the opportunity.

1. snare, queries
2. lurk, believes
3. ambush, questions
4. cessation, certainities
5. All are correct

6. a. The new swimmer had to __________________ in the deep end
_______________ the lifeguard dragged him to safety.
b. After it hit the iceberg, the Titanic was left to ________________ in the Atlantic Ocean _________________ it finally sank.

1. lurch, before
2. flourish, before
3. coast, before
4. flounder, before
5. All are correct

7. a. If you want me to ________________ your point of view, you’re going to have to
explain your _________________ to me in a way that I can understand.
b. Despite my promise to _______________ him with his parents, he still didn’t trust
me to tell them the ________________ which were behind the situation.

1. acquit, certainities
2. incriminate, entities
3. criticize, facts
4. vindicate, ideas
5. All are correct

8. a. Because the mistress wanted the man’s wife to find out about their affair, she tried to ____________ her red lip stick ______________his collar.
b. The baby used her fingers to _________ paint all ______________ the paper.

1. slander, beyond
2. smudge, over
3. smear, across
4. dignity, against
5. All are correct

9. a. The plan to __________________ the historical church and build a strip mall is
going to _______________ all the religious activists in the community.
b. Because Heather has already _________ everything around him, it will not take much to ______________ her and worsen her mood.

1. tear down, rankle
2. raze, appease
3. edify, fret
4. erect, aggravte
5. All are correct

10. a. The ______________ ______________by our principal is the reason our school is
one of the best in the nation.
b. Over the past three years, the ______________ ________________ by the
company president has been unshakable.

1. perception, masked
2. dopiness, absorbed
3. acumen, displayed
4. fatuity, exposed
5. All are correct