Upper-Intermediate Vocabulary 1

Modern airlines offer their passengers a great variety

of ............... comforts.

• vulgar

• civilized

• lazy

• competent

What they call "female intuition" is very easy to

explain in evolutionary ______.

• terms

• lectures

• words

• books

They say a woman might forgive an insult, but she

would never forgive being ______.

• persuaded

• ignored

• sacrificed

• praised

These results seem to ............... that vitamin B12

supplementation may work wonders for the brain.

• define

• imply

• refer

• infer

Am I to ............... from your last remarks that my

services are no longer required here?

• define

• refer

• imply

• infer

Who would have guessed that the great champion

would have to ............... from the race because of a

simple puncture?

• fluctuate

• detour

• deviate

• withdraw

People become quite ............... when it comes to

discussing questions of religion and belief.

• illogical

• illiterate

• illegible

• unintelligible

He was ............... from service for his insistent

disobedience.

• distorted

• sacrificed

• dismissed

• blackened

Many people thought it was a gross ............. to

condemn her.

• impartiality

• fairness

• injustice

• honesty

I don't think that was a very wise decision. The

people are ....... to rise up against it in arms.

• bound

• hostile

• crude

• displeased