vocabulary

You say you need new clothes but your wardrobe is full to _______ with dresses

• overflowing

• overfilling

• overlaying

• overstepping

The economic situation makes many people unwilling to take the _______ and open their own businesses.

• initiative

• bull

• plunge

• opportunity

Looking after a house, four children, a lazy husband and two dogs is real _______.

• labour

• drudgery

• toil

• grind

Serena is still _______ ignorant of the fact that she is about to be made redundant.

• blissfully

• decorously

• jubilantly

• ecstatically

I’m afraid we got our _______ crossed – I thought my husband would be picking up the children and he thought I was doing it.

• minds

• purposes

• wires

• fingers

Marlene is quite ______ - I don’t know she manages to fit everything in.

• inexhaustible

• tiresome

• inexorable

• indefatigable

The princess’s nanny’s autobiography really gives the ______ on life among the royals.

• show-down

• know-how

• low-down

• look-out

Anyone who lies under oath will be charged with ________ the course of justice.

• perverting

• inverting

• converting

• diverting

You can try reformatting your computer, but once you open that _______, you’ll probably be working on it for days.

• apple of discord

• can of worms

• load of cobblers

• spot of bother

I’ve searched _______ for that old photo album, but I can’t find it anywhere.

• high and low

• long and short

• straight and narrow

• thick and thin