Ambitious Vocabulary Round 1

The weather today is abysmal

• Very good

• Very bad

• Boring

• Tasty

At the start of the play, Sheila's mood is buoyant

• Light, cheerful

• Depressing

• Funny

• Serious

Scrooge responds to the charity collectors with facetious remarks

• Attractive

• Boring

• Mildly insulting

• Big-headed

Teaching year 10 can make a teacher's voice hoarse

• light

• pleasing

• high-pitched

• rough or husky

It is an irrefutable fact that planning makes your writing better

• possible to prove

• impossible to prove

• impossible to deny

• possible to prove wrong

Examiners will see a lot of mediocre answers so you must make sure yours is excellent

• the very best

• average

• the very worst

• impossible

Mistakes on to/too/two and your/you're are prevalent

• widespread or common

• uncommon

• evil

• benevolent

It is important to use rhetorical devices in your writing

• using language to show off

• Rhyming

• rude

• using language to insult someone

Planning makes your extended writing less strenuous

• involving sleep

• involving music

• involving money

• involving effort

The Inspector gives the Birlings a thorough interrogation

• completed quickly

• backwards

• incomplete

• completed in detail