Vocabulary

Everything was designed to impress the onlooker with the ........... of the building as well as the importance of its wealthy owner.

• grandeur

• squawks

• accomodation

• bubble

The gold recovered so far is being held in a ..... at a secret location.

• padded

• bubble

• vault

• sewage

If it were not for the strips at the back, shimmering blue light to suggest the sea, we be inside an aircraft .........

• grandeur

• vault

• skuas

• hangar

A mallard suddenly took wing, rising steeply into the air with an angry .....

• skua

• squawk

• orca

• crevasse

Police were often .... to ensure no opposition visited hospitals to disturb patients.

• deployed

• abseiled

• grandeured

• encountered

Hundreds of soldiers, most of whom presumably were unable to swim, still .... ant-like to the great hull

• accomodated

• encountered

• clung

• abseiled

As far as I can recall, he was heavily-built and ..... a red moustache.

• sported

• ice-cored

• hurled

• shivered

Burglars cut holes in the roof before ....... down to avoid sensors that would have set off alarms.

• sporting

• dismantling

• abseiling

• paddling

The hiker tripped and fell into a deep mountain ...... and had to be pulled out by a rescue team

• sledge

• ice-core

• cavern

• crevasse

His lips curved up in the ....... smile, acknowledging the compliment.

• crevassed

• obligatory

• erected

• dismantled