These nouns measure/evaluate some attribute abstract or concrete.
For the purpose of Multiple Choice Questions Vocabulary test, here are ten 'NOUNS which LITERALLY MEASURE' something or the other.Assay
Assessment
Appraisal
Calibration
Evaluate
Gauge
Measure
Rate
Size up
Vet
Pl. fill in the blanks, of the following quotes from Classical Literature, with the words which you consider most appropriately fit in the context and in relation to other words in the sentences. If you wish you can compare your answers with the key, clicking: Click to see mcquestansyb. Your answers need not agree with the key, because the choice of rights words is a matter of preference.
551. Give me my scallop-shell of quiet,
My staff of faith to walk upon,
My scrip of joy, immortal diet,
My bottle of salvation,
My gown of glory, hope's true _____;
And thus I'll take my pilgrimage!
[Sir Walter Raleigh in his poem 'The Pilgrimage'].
552. The Castle needs a lot of things to make it comfortable--as you would consider it. In fact, it is absolutely destitute of everything of a domestic nature. Uncle Roger had it ______ on the defence side, and so far it could stand a siege. [Bram Stoker in 'The Lady of the Shroud'].
553. Who could this be? he thought, with the uneasy fear of a man threatened with danger. For the moment he had forgotten Jonah's real name, and he looked into the shop to _______ his adversary with the angry curiosity of a soldier facing the enemy.
554. To shew him worthy of his birth divine
And high prediction, henceforth I expose
To Satan; let him tempt and now _____
His utmost subtilty, because he boasts
And vaunts of his great cunning to the throng
Of his Apostasie. [John Milton in his epic 'Paradise Lost'].
555. The tax laws had been so amended as to secure substantial equality in the __________ of property; taxes had been reduced to eleven mills on the dollar; [Benjamin Brawley in his 'A Social History of the American Negro'].
556. It was _____ eight and one-half horse-power; but, as every one knows, American machines are overrated as a rule, while foreign
machines are greatly underrated. A twelve horse-power American machine may mean not more than eight or ten; a twelve horse-power French machine, with its four cylinders, means not less than sixteen. [Arthur Jerome Eddy in his 'Two Thousand Miles On An Automobile'].
557. The highest _________, $800, was given to Payton, an ox driver, twenty-eight years old. The $700 class comprised six plowmen, five field hands, the three remaining ox drivers, both wagoners, both blacksmiths, the carriage driver, four stone masons, a carpenter, [Ulrich Bonnell Phillips in his 'American Negro Slavery'].
558. This report describes the activities of an estimated 1,000 personnel, both military and civilian, in Project TRINITY, which culminated in detonation of the first nuclear device, in New Mexico in 1945. Scientific and diagnostic experiments to ________ the effects of the nuclear device were the primary activities engaging military personnel. [Carl Maag and Steve Rohrer in 'Project Trinity 1945-1946'].
559. It was known to the scientific world that several of the original thermometers, constructed by Mr Sheepshanks (in the course of his preparation of the National Standard of Length) by independent ___________ of the bores, and independent determination of the freezing and boiling points on arbitrary graduations, were still preserved at the Royal Observatory. [Sir George Biddell Airy in his Autobiography].
560. What is desirable is not always necessary, while that which is necessary may be most undesirable. Perhaps the _______ of a man is the ability to tell one from the other ... and act on it. [Randall Garrett in his novel 'Measure of a Man].
