Word Forms – Vocabulary Practice 1

 

Directions:  For each of the sentence below, choose the word that best fits into the space.  When you are done, bring your answers to me for correction.

 

  1. She _____________ awaited the arrival of her best friend, whom she hadn’t seen in months.
    1. eager
    2. eagerness
    3. eagerly
  2. The police chief decided to hold off* on making a _____________ announcement about the arrest of the murder suspect.
    1. publicly
    2. public
    3. publicity
  3. We will need to _____________ our preparation for this trip if we are going to leave on time.
    1. hasten
    2. haste
    3. hastily
  4. If you want to get that internship, you will need a _______________ to sponsor you.
    1. sponsorship
    2. sponsor
    3. sponsoring
  5. She strives** for _______________ when she paints and sculpts.
    1. perfect
    2. perfection
    3. perfectly
  6. She often ____________________ about going on a long trip to Australia.
    1. fantasizes
    2. fantasy
    3. fantastically
    4. fantastic
  7. Don’t be so _______________.  Get off the table and eat your dinner.
    1. childishly
    2. childhood
    3. childish
  8. He is definitely a ______________.  He wants everything to be just right.
    1. perfection
    2. perfectionism
    3. perfectionist
  9. If you make _____________ choices for your diet, you will be healthy.
    1. suitable
    2. suit
    3. suitably
  10. When we arrived at the __________________, the speaker was talking about what a great man Martin Luther King Jr. was.
    1. commemorative
    2. commemorating
    3. commemoration
  11. He’s always very ______________ and makes jokes about everything.
    1. joy
    2. joviality
    3. jovial
  12. Unfortunately, if he doesn’t eat breakfast in the morning, he’s not very __________.
    1. energize
    2. energy
    3. energetic
    4. energetically
  13. The ballerina danced ______________ across the stage.
    1. gracefully
    2. grace
    3. graceful
  14. His _________ to build strong relationships among group members helped him get the job.
    1. able
    2. disability
    3. ability
  15. She never feels much ______________.  She’s always pretty depressed.
    1. happy
    2. happiness
    3. happily
  16. Did the company offer you an ______________ for traveling?
    1. allow
    2. allowable
    3. allowance

 

 

*hold off – a phrasal verb meaning “wait”

**to strive – “to push to reach or attain”