Boost your Vocabulary Cambridge 13 - Test 1 - Passage 02

Which word is a synonym for STATES in this sentence: For a start, it can include a lot of other mental STATES, such as frustration, apathy, depression and indifference.

• anxiety
• condition
• goat
• sort

Which word is a synonym for APATHY in this sentence: For a start, it can include a lot of other mental states, such as frustration, APATHY, depression and indifference.

• lack of interest

• proceeds

• pot

• migrate

Which word is a synonym for DEPRESSION in this sentence: For a start, it can include a lot of other mental states, such as frustration, apathy, DEPRESSION and indifference.

• fortunate

• unhappiness

• conviction

• sift

Which word is a synonym for INDIFFERENCE in this sentence: For a start, it can include a lot of other mental states, such as frustration, apathy, depression and INDIFFERENCE.

• transition

• disinterest

• assessment

• rotary

Which word is a synonym for AGITATED in this sentence: There isn’t even agreement over whether boredom is always a low-energy, flat kind of emotion or whether feeling AGITATED and restless counts as boredom, too.

• upset

• quantitative

• lame

• inclined

Which word is a synonym for DISGUST in this sentence: In his book, Boredom: A Lively History, Peter Toohey at the University of Calgary, Canada, compares it to DISGUST - an emotion that motivates us to stay away from certain situations.

• affirm

• sandy

• banker

• disapproval

Which word is a synonym for IDENTIFIED in this sentence: By asking people about their experiences of boredom, Thomas Goetz and his team at the University of Konstanz in Germany have recently IDENTIFIED five distinct types: indifferent, calibrating, searching, reactant and apathetic.

• penetrate

• pathetic

• grace

• classify

Which word is a synonym for DISTINCT in this sentence: By asking people about their experiences of boredom, Thomas Goetz and his team at the University of Konstanz in Germany have recently identified five DISTINCT types: indifferent, calibrating, searching, reactant and apathetic.

• congestion

• hindrance

• pollute

• separate

Which word is a synonym for PLOTTED in this sentence: These can be PLOTTED on two axes - one running left to right, which measures low to high arousal, and the other from top to bottom, which measures how positive or negative the feeling is.

• forum

• deficit

• draw

• geology

Which word is a synonym for AROUSAL in this sentence: These can be plotted on two axes - one running left to right, which measures low to high AROUSAL, and the other from top to bottom, which measures how positive or negative the feeling is.

• excitement

• censor

• linguistics

• independent