Compound Nouns and Adjectives

There was international out___ at the decision to ban the athlete from competing.

What are your long-____ health and fitness goals?

The team faced a set-____ very early in the project.

Because of the recent _____ we do not have as much money to spend on research.

• drawbacks

• cutbacks

• outcry

• crackdown

They have done a huge amount of research and are hoping for a _____ in the next few months.

• breakthrough

• crackdown

• outset

• drawback

We only started recently, so we are just at the _____ of the project, but we hope to achieve great things.

• outcome

• outset

• outcry

• outlook

We have made good progress with the project despite an initial _____ that we were fortunately able to sort out.

• feedback

• setback

• drawback

• cutback

There was a huge _____ when they announced that they would be closing the research laboratory.

• outcry

• outlook

• outcome

• breakthrough

We don’t know what will happen in the _____ , but we need to take action on climate change now.

• long-term

• full-scale

• breakthrough

• crackdown

The police will launch a full-_____ investigation into the recent crimes.