Vocabulary Quizzes – Choose the Best Word 1

Today's football match has been ______ because of bad weather. They will play next Thursday instead.

The soldiers ______ around the square in a perfect display of discipline, watched by the President and his foreign guests.

The very idea of my sister being a thief is quite ______! She is a qualified dentist, a mother of three and a governor of a primary school.

After hours of walking across the desert they thought they saw an oasis, but they were wrong. There was nothing there; it was only a ______.

The ______ of the ship now lied under 300 meters of water, and we shall probably never discover its secrets.

I liked her. She gave me the ______ of being clever but modest, which is quite unusual.

If workers and bosses cannot agree, they sometimes bring in professionals from outside to ______ in the dispute.

According to the weather ______, there will be more snow tomorrow.

Heavy snow ______ the train for several hours.

The boxer recovered, although he had been ______ for ten minutes after the fight. His doctor has told him to give up fighting.