Synonyms Multiple Choice Worksheet
Choose the correct word for each provided synonym(s).
1. chew over, think over, meditate, excogitate, contemplate, muse, reflect, mull, mull over, ruminate, speculate
A. Ponder
B. Apportion
C. Contemplate
D. Reconciliation
E. Abominable
2. upsurge, billow, rush, spate, scend, tide, soar, soar up, soar upwards, zoom, heave
A. Contemplate
B. Awful
C. Surge
D. Trigger
E. Grin
3. detestable, execrable, odious, atrocious, awful, dreadful, painful, terrible, unspeakable
A. Predicament
B. Abominable
C. Fanatic
D. Trigger
E. Grim
4. smile, smiling, grinning
A. Fanatic
B. Reconciliation
C. Contemplate
D. Grin
E. Predicament
5. quandary, plight
A. Exodus
B. Surge
C. Subtle
D. Predicament
E. Abominable
6. chew over, think over, meditate, ponder, excogitate, muse, reflect, mull, mull over, ruminate, speculate, study
A. Grim
B. Reconciliation
C. Brink
D. Contemplate
E. Trigger
7. fiend, fanatical, overzealous, rabid
A. Brink
B. Fanatic
C. Surge
D. Reconciliation
E. Subtle
8. blue, dark, depressing, dingy, disconsolate, dispiriting, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary
A. Predicament
B. Brink
C. Dismal
D. Fanatic
E. Trigger
9. balancing, rapprochement
A. Awful
B. Predicament
C. Surge
D. Trigger
E. Reconciliation
10. induction, initiation, gun trigger, trip, actuate, activate, set off, spark off, spark, trigger off, touch off
A. Trigger
B. Grim
C. Predicament
D. Grin
E. Contemplate
11. allocate, share, divvy up, portion out, deal
A. Grin
B. Dismal
C. Contemplate
D. Apportion
E. Reconciliation
12. inexorable, relentless, stern, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting, ghastly, grisly, gruesome, macabre, sick, blue, dark, depressing, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, dispiriting, gloomy, sorry, drab, drear, dreary, darkening, dour, forbidding, black, mordant
A. Exodus
B. Trigger
C. Grim
D. Surge
E. Brink
13. hegira, hejira, Book of Exodus
A. Brink
B. Trigger
C. Exodus
D. Subtle
E. Ponder
14. threshold, verge
A. Abominable
B. Contemplate
C. Surge
D. Grim
E. Brink
15. dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible, atrocious, abominable, dreadful, painful, terrible, unspeakable, amazing, awe-inspiring, awesome, awing, nasty, frightful, tremendous, awed, terribly, awfully, frightfully
A. Surge
B. Fanatic
C. Predicament
D. Awful
E. Brink
16. contributing, contributive, contributory, tributary
A. Conducive
B. Ponder
C. Exodus
D. Brink
E. Awful
17. insidious, pernicious, elusive
A. Apportion
B. Exodus
C. Predicament
D. Subtle
E. Brink