Proficiency Testbuilder Test 1 Vocab

The problem ___ because neither side was prepared to compromise.

• amassed

• escalated

• proliferated

• enhanced

She relies ___ on her parents for financial support.

• profusely

• amply

• heavily

• severely

Emma found it impossible to ___ her anger and started shouting.

• restrict

• inhibit

• reserve

• contain

A meeting was held so that staff could ___ their views freely.

• divulge

• vent

• utter

• air

I was at ___ to make it clear that I wasn't blaming either of them.

• efforts

• trouble

• pains

• enveavours

After years of making unsuccessful films, she is hoping that this one will ___ her career.

• revive

• renew

• refresh

• reinstate

It's difficult to keep ___ with all the recent changes in the law.

• pace

• track

• progress

• step

Not even losing all the time could ___ his enthusiasm for tennis.

• recede

• dampen

• erode

• belittle

If I were you, I wouldn't ___ any importance to such a trivial incident.

• put

• attach

• lay

• pay

It was a ___ lie and nobody at all believed it.

• blatant

• salient

• conspicuous

• pronounced