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Pete's so ______! I wish he'd think things through a little more carefully.

• impulsive

• repulsive

• compulsive

• expulsive

Susan's been walking around with a ______look in her eye ever since she met Jeff; it must be love!

• dreamer

• dreamy

• dreamed

• dreamful

I hardly ever see my best friend any more; we're slowly _____ apart

• drifting

• hovering

• wandering

• roving

A ______ family consists of parents and their children.

• concentrated

• single

• solid

• nuclear

Teachers aren't forbidden from giving private lessons to students, but it is ______ upon.

• scowled

• grimaced

• frowned

• glowered

I know your name is 'Jim'. When I called you 'Tim' it was just a ______ of the tongue.

• slide

• skid

• skim

• slip

Grandma says there wasn't a ______ of truth in that story that Grandad told last night about being a war hero.

• speck

• crumb

• dot

• grain

One of the ______ influences on teenages today is the media.

• heaviest

• sturdiest

• strongest

• hardest

West Ham United ______ a good result away from home

at the weekend, despite playing the second half with only ten men.

• succeeded

• earned

• achieved

• won

Among his colleagues, he was known for being irritable

and ______.

• quarrelsome

• quarrelful

• quarreling

• quarreler