Advanced English Vocabulary unit 2

Advanced English Vocabulary unit 2

by Waine Evans

​Adjectives Denoting Physique

​plump - fleshy or overweight

corpulent - excessively fat

​obese - medically overweight

​muscular - strong with well developed muscles

​stout - rather fat and heavy at the same time

​hefty - big and strong

​husky - strong and powerfully built

​burly - large in body, bulky and stout

​virile - exhibiting physical strength and sexual power

​sturdy - possessing excellent health and strength

​robust - strong, healthy with stamina

​lanky - very thin, tall and ungraceful

​spindly - long, duel, suggesting weakness

​feeble - weak, lacking in muscular power

​delicate - easily injured or easily made ill

​frail - delicate, usually in poor health

​gaunt - thin, extremely weak, as though from lack of food

​sickly - often ill

​bony - very thin, as though the bones show through the skin

​skinny - very thin

​decrepit - weak and in bad condition from old age

​senile - (connected with old age) showing the weakness of the body and especially of the mind

Multiple Choice

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burly

• strong

• fat

• weak

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obese

• strong

• fat

• weak

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feeble

• strong

• fat

• weak

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frail

• strong

• fat

• weak

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corpulent

• strong

• fat

• weak

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hefty

• strong

• fat

• weak

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plump

• strong

• fat

• weak

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virile

• strong

• fat

• weak

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delicate

• strong

• fat

• weak

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muscular

• strong

• fat

• weak

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stout

• strong

• fat

• weak

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spindly

• strong

• fat

• weak

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husky

• strong

• fat

• weak

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gaunt

• strong

• fat

• weak

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robust

• strong

• fat

• weak

Multiple Choice

Select one word or phrase that is close in meaning to the word underlined.

An ex-convict is a person

• observe it

• hasn’t got his clothes on

• healthy in mind

• surrenders

• who has already undergone punishment

Multiple Choice

Select one word or phrase that is close in meaning to the word underlined.

A sane individual is

• observe it

• hasn’t got his clothes on

• healthy in mind

• surrenders

• who has already undergone punishment

Multiple Choice

Select one word or phrase that is close in meaning to the word underlined.

A naked person

• observe it

• hasn’t got his clothes on

• healthy in mind

• surrenders

• who has already undergone punishment

Multiple Choice

Select one word or phrase that is close in meaning to the word underlined.

An enemy that capitulates

• observe it

• hasn’t got his clothes on

• healthy in mind

• surrenders

• who has already undergone punishment

Multiple Choice

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People who abide by the law

• observe it

• hasn’t got his clothes on

• healthy in mind

• surrenders

• who has already undergone punishment

Multiple Choice

Select one word or phrase that is close in meaning to the word underlined.

An unscrupulous man

• is attractive in movement

• doesn’t take the trouble to be polite

• is not guided by conscience

• keeps them

• monastery for women

Multiple Choice

Select one word or phrase that is close in meaning to the word underlined.

A graceful woman

• is attractive in movement

• doesn’t take the trouble to be polite

• is not guided by conscience

• keeps them

• monastery for women

Multiple Choice

Select one word or phrase that is close in meaning to the word underlined.

A friend sticking to his promises

• is attractive in movement

• doesn’t take the trouble to be polite

• is not guided by conscience

• keeps them

• monastery for women

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A blunt person

• is attractive in movement

• doesn’t take the trouble to be polite

• is not guided by conscience

• keeps them

• monastery for women

Multiple Choice

Select one word or phrase that is close in meaning to the word underlined.

A convent is another word for

• is attractive in movement

• doesn’t take the trouble to be polite

• is not guided by conscience

• keeps them

• monastery for women

Multiple Choice

Complete the sentence using the words defined below.

A vision test is _____ when you are applying for a driver's license.

• compulsive

• compulsory

Multiple Choice

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Although Sharon is a bit _____ she still seems fit and healthy.

• plump

• plumber

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Who do you suppose lives in that _____ mansion?

• stout

• stately

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Jason was _____ for weeks after crashing his car.

• in high spirits

• in low spirits

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Can you please _____ that for me, I'm not sure I understood.

• capitulate

• recapitulate

Multiple Choice

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Will you _____ to stop smoking if I stop eating chocolate?

• vow

• avow

Multiple Choice

Complete the sentence using the words defined below.

Don't agree to take on the job until you are sure what it _____.

• curtail

• entail

Multiple Choice

Vocabulary Practice.

Greenhouse gases are being released into the atmosphere 30 times faster than the time when the Earth experienced a _____ episode of global warming.

• prearranged

• premier

• previous

• fundamental

Multiple Choice

A study comparing the rate at which carbon dioxide and methane are being _____ now, compared to 55 million years ago when global warming also occurred, has found dramatic differences in the speed of release.

• emitted

• exhaled

• incorporated

• digested

Multiple Choice

James Zachos, professor of earth sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz, said the speed of the present build up of greenhouse gases is far greater than during the global warming after the _____ of the dinosaurs. "The emissions that caused this past episode of global warming probably lasted 10,000 years," Professor Zachos told the American Association fort he Advancement of Science at a meeting ln St. Louis.

• dementia

• demolition

• detachment

• demise

Multiple Select

"By burning fossil fuels, we are likely to emit the same amount over the next three centuries." He warned that studies of global warming events in the geological past _____" the Earth's climate passes a _____ beyond which climate change accelerates with the help of positive feedbacks vicious circles of warming.

• verge

• threshold

• barricade

• perimeter

• indicate

Multiple Choice

Professor Zachos is a leading _____ on the episode of global warming known as the paleocene Eocene thermal maximum, when average global temperatures increased by up to 50C due to a massive release of carbon dioxide and methane.

• autocrat

• authority

• administrator

• proprietor

Multiple Select

His research into the deep ocean _____ suggests at this time that about 4.5 billion tons of carbon entered the atmosphere over 10,000 years. "This will be the same amount of carbon released into the atmosphere from cars and industrial emissions over the next 300 years if present _____ continue", he said.

• sediments

• trends

• fads

• crazes

• dust

Multiple Select

Although carbon can be released suddenly and naturally into the atmosphere from volcanic activity, it takes many thousands of years for it to be removed permanently by natural processes. The ocean is capable of removing carbon, and quickly, but this natural _____ can be easily _____ which is probably what happened 55 million years ago. "It will take tens of thousands of years before atmospheric carbon dioxide comes down to preindustrial levels," the professor said. "Even after humans stop burning fossil fuels, the effects will be long-lasting."

• competence

• capacity

• bulk

• overwhelmed

• overshadowed

Multiple Choice

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_____ is a real health hazard.

• Stupidity

• Sturdiness

• Animosity

• Obesity

Multiple Choice

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The old lady was becoming increasingly affected by _____.

• senility

• masculinity

• virility

• chivalry

Multiple Choice

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His _____ excuses invariably exasperated the manager.

• feeble

• frail

• robust

• wealthy

Multiple Choice

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I don't _____ to be a genius but I am not stupid either.

• permit

• agree

• compare

• claim

Multiple Choice

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Smoking can be _____ to Your health

• delightful

• harmless

• detrimental

• indifferent

Multiple Choice

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People _____ their spending power when prices rise.

• increase

• curtail

• prolong

• think

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He became an outlaw by _____ the law.

• defying

• observing

• sticking to

• abiding by

Multiple Choice

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_____ is a punishable offense.

• Hunting

• Poaching

• Jogging

• Boxing

Multiple Choice

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Marian was a beautiful, _____ young lady.

• corpulent

• gaunt

• slender

• bony

Multiple Choice

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Don't trust him, he's cruel, _____ and unscrupulous.

• loving

• slack

• treacherous

• trustworthy