Boost your Vocabulary Cambridge 8 - Test 1 - Passage 03

Which word is a synonym for spark in this sentence: Can human beings communicate by thought alone? For more than a century the issue of telepathy has divided the scientific community, and even today it still sparks bitter controversy among top academics.

• provoke

• promote

• perceive

• convince

Which word is a synonym for controversy in this sentence: Can human beings communicate by thought alone? For more than a century the issue of telepathy has divided the scientific community, and even today it still sparks bitter controversy among top academics.

• enjoyment

• experiment

• equipment

• argument

Which word is a synonym for derision in this sentence: Since the 1970s, parapsychologists at leading universities and research institutes around the world have risked the derision of sceptical colleagues by putting the various claims for telepathy to the test in dozens of rigorous scientific studies.

• ridicule

• essence

• prediction

• concept

Which word is a synonym for sceptical in this sentence: Since the 1970s, parapsychologists at leading universities and research institutes around the world have risked the derision of sceptical colleagues by putting the various claims for telepathy to the test in dozens of rigorous scientific studies.

• skillful

• doubtful

• meaningful

• powerful

Which word is a synonym for implication in this sentence: The results and their implications are dividing even the researchers who uncovered them.

• insinuation

• disposition

• emotion

• cooperation

Which word is a synonym for uncover in this sentence: The results and their implications are dividing even the researchers who uncovered them.

• motivate

• reveal

• promote

• develop

Which word is a synonym for constitute in this sentence: Some researchers say the results constitute compelling evidence that telepathy is genuine.

• create

• recognize

• explain

• express

Which word is a synonym for compelling in this sentence: Some researchers say the results constitute compelling evidence that telepathy is genuine.

• depending

• convincing

• interpreting

• perplexing

Which word is a synonym for collapse in this sentence: Other parapsychologists believe the field is on the brink of collapse, having tried to produce definitive scientific proof and failed.

• fail

• display

• conduct

• convert

Which word is a synonym for definitive in this sentence: Other parapsychologists believe the field is on the brink of collapse, having tried to produce definitive scientific proof and failed.

• obvious

• ultimate

• tangible

• visible