CAE/CPE - VOCABULARY 1 Adjectives

The integrity of the game is of ______________ importance to everyone in our league, and requires unshakable commitment to fairness and compliance with the playing rules.

• paramount

• crucial

• significant

• prudent

His ejectment was no _________ matter as it carried him quite to the edge of the sidewalk.

• intrepid

• mundane

• trifling

• common

They talked non-stop for the entire flight about their ____________ jobs in excruciating detail and in annoyingly loud voices.

• trivial

• mundane

• lenient

• essential

While this can feel like an __________ and lengthy part of the process, it is a great opportunity to align everyone's expectations as to what the partnership will specifically involve.

• lenient

• inexhaustible

• judicious

• arduous

It covers harm which will be suffered by a permanent market loss or ___________ damage to the applicant's business reputation.

• impossible

• irrevocable

• important

• prevalent

he omens didn't look good when the ___________ explorers had to jump-start their old bangers to reach the end of the street.

• prudent

• upredictable

• trifling

• intrepid

Surely everyone must have been able to hear the ________ pounding of her coward heart.

• significant

• erratic

• prevalent

• lenient

This form of discrimination, which is ____________ in all areas of life and still hardly regarded, is called lookism.

• judicious

• key

• prevalent

• erratic

Retention of a naturally compact hand through early release of selected notes and ___________ use of staccato touch is a potent technique.

• judicious

• mundane

• arduous

• significant

If a firm bargains for ______________ regulation, the individual behavior might affect the overall provincial regulatory stringency.

• mundane

• unpredictable

• endless

• lenient