Vocabulary Quiz

Much of our knowledge about prehistoric animals comes from the study of ______.

• artefacts

• ruins

• relics

• fossils

There was a sudden ______ of anger in the General's eyes as he listened to the soldier's report.

• fire

• flash

• flame

• shade

Animals should be helped to survive in the wild, rather than kept in ______.

• prison

• captivity

• seizure

• arrest

In college, he continued to excel, earning praise in the classroom almost as often as on the basketball ______.

• course

• pitch

• court

• track

We are going to build a fence around the field with a(n) _______ to breeding sheep and cattle.

• goal

• outlook

• reason

• view

When there is a surplus electricity on the grid, these facilities use that power to pump water from the lower ______ to the higher one.

• reservoir

• lake

• puddle

• pond

I would rather tourists coming here stopped dropping so much ________on the ground.

• rubbish

• litter

• waste

• garbage

You've got to stop making decisions about your business on the ______ of the moment like this, or you'll end up running it into the ground!

• current

• top

• desire

• spur

I can't understand Juan's Spanish because he speaks a regional ______.

• jargon

• dialect

• accent

• slang

I think access to cinemas and theatres is the main ______ of city life.

• amenity

• attraction

• leisure

• recreation