Boost your Vocabulary Cambridge 14 - Test 4 - Passage 03

Which word is a synonym for DISMAL in this sentence: Chelsea Rochman, an ecologist at the University of California, Davis, has been trying to answer a DISMAL question: Is everything terrible, or are things just very, very bad?

• miserable
• angular
• antarctic
• resident

Which word is a synonym for TERRIBLE in this sentence: Chelsea Rochman, an ecologist at the University of California, Davis, has been trying to answer a dismal question: Is everything TERRIBLE, or are things just very, very bad?

• marsh
• awful
• insight
• mortal

Which word is a synonym for ANALYSIS in this sentence: Rochman is a member of the National Center for Ecological ANALYSIS and Synthesis's marine debris working group, a collection of scientists who study, among other things, the growing problem of marine debris, also known as ocean trash.

• screwdriver
• immigration
• indulge
• examination

Which word is a synonym for SYNTHESIS in this sentence: Rochman is a member of the National Center for Ecological Analysis and SYNTHESIS's marine debris working group, a collection of scientists who study, among other things, the growing problem of marine debris, also known as ocean trash.

• meditation
• mixture
• propaganda
• ply

Which word is a synonym for MARINE in this sentence: Rochman is a member of the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis's MARINE debris working group, a collection of scientists who study, among other things, the growing problem of MARINE debris, also known as ocean trash.

• retirement
• timely
• maritime
• millionaire

Which word is a synonym for DEBRIS in this sentence: Rochman is a member of the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis's marine DEBRIS working group, a collection of scientists who study, among other things, the growing problem of marine DEBRIS, also known as ocean trash.

• considerate
• rubbish
• assessment
• miller

Which word is a synonym for COLLECTION in this sentence: Rochman is a member of the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis's marine debris working group, a COLLECTION of scientists who study, among other things, the growing problem of marine debris, also known as ocean trash.

• group
• slide
• effective
• bold

Which word is a synonym for STATE in this sentence: Plenty of studies have sounded alarm bells about the STATE of marine debris; in a recent paper published in the journal Ecology, Rochman and her colleagues set out to determine how many of those perceived risks are real.

• entrust
• peck
• condition
• arouse

Which word is a synonym for PAPER in this sentence: Plenty of studies have sounded alarm bells about the state of marine debris; in a recent PAPER published in the journal Ecology, Rochman and her colleagues set out to determine how many of those perceived risks are real.

• injure
• newspaper
• installation
• monstrous

Which word is a synonym for JOURNAL in this sentence: Plenty of studies have sounded alarm bells about the state of marine debris; in a recent paper published in the JOURNAL Ecology, Rochman and her colleagues set out to determine how many of those perceived risks are real.

• bachelor
• scold
• protest
• newsletter