Boost your Vocabulary Cambridge 09 - Test 1 - Passage 03

Which word is a synonym for MOVED OUT  in this sentence: At various points in evolutionary history, enterprising individuals within many different animal groups MOVED OUT onto the land, sometimes even to the most parched deserts, taking their own private seawater with them in blood and cellular fluids.

• exceedingly
• compromise
• leave
• popcorn

Which word is a synonym for PARCHED  in this sentence: At various points in evolutionary history, enterprising individuals within many different animal groups moved out onto the land, sometimes even to the most PARCHED deserts, taking their own private seawater with them in blood and cellular fluids.

• thread
• panorama
• satire
• dry

Which word is a synonym for PRIOR  in this sentence: And we mustn’t forget the plants, without whose PRIOR invasion of the land none of the other migrations could have happened.

• conscience
• embarrass
• previous
• specialize

Which word is a synonym for REPRODUCTION in this sentence: Moving from water to land involved a major redesign of every aspect of life, including breathing and REPRODUCTION.

• breeding
• reel
• tunnel
• organism

Which word is a synonym for THOROUGHGOING  in this sentence: Nevertheless, a good number of THOROUGHGOING land animals later turned around, abandoned their hard-earned terrestrial re-tooling, and returned to the water again.

• complete
• animation
• purchase
• hoarse

Which word is a synonym for ABANDONED  in this sentence: Nevertheless, a good number of thoroughgoing land animals later turned around, ABANDONED their hard-earned terrestrial re-tooling, and returned to the water again.

• ministry
• scout
• discard
• luminous

Which word is a synonym for INTERMEDIATES  in this sentence: They show us what the INTERMEDIATES might have been like, on the way to extreme cases such as whales and dugongs.

• encounter
• in-between
• anxiety
• tranquil

Which word is a synonym for CREATURES  in this sentence: Whales (including the small whales we call dolphins) and dugongs, with their close cousins the manatees, ceased to be land CREATURES altogether and reverted to the full marine habits of their remote ancestors.

• living thing
• barrel
• sympathy
• tile

Which word is a synonym for REVERTED TO  in this sentence: Whales (including the small whales we call dolphins) and dugongs, with their close cousins the manatees, ceased to be land creatures altogether and REVERTED TO the full marine habits of their remote ancestors.

• go back to
• elaboration
• staple
• pebble

Which word is a synonym for REMOTE in this sentence: Whales (including the small whales we call dolphins) and dugongs, with their close cousins the manatees, ceased to be land creatures altogether and reverted to the full marine habits of their REMOTE ancestors.

• booth

• bark

• impart

• distant