grade 12 vocabulary 1

You can use some vitamin tablets to ...... your diet.

• moan

• illustrate

• grab

• supplement

As there has been a(n) ...... drought, the local people cannot grow any crops to feed themselves.

• prolonged

• solid

• armoured

• shallow

The ..... between the moving parts of the engine causes the machine to heat up.

• decline

• innovation

• necessity

• friction

Taking part in the Olympics requires both physical and mental ...... .

• refuge

• digestion

• endurance

• vessel

He is one of Mexico's ...... authorities on Aztec culture.

• gloomy

• foremost

• rigid

• instant

In ......, she called her father and asked for help.

• desperation

• desire

• ignorance

• marvel

The show will be broadcast ...... on TV and radio.

• unsteadily

• simultaneously

• scornfully

• ordinarily

When he saw the huge dog, his first ...... was to run.

• victory

• reversal

• impulse

• influence

Some of these plants are more ..... to frost damage than others.

• susceptible

• renowned

• temporary

• brutalized

Her ..... beauty caused her to be envied even by her closest friend.

• insured

• crippled

• dazzling

• essential