Advanced Vocabulary 1st Term quiz

Match the verb with its meaning: settle

• To improve or develop things so that they are at a more advanced stage.

• To go and live somewhere, usually permanently.

• To make it possible for someone to do something or for something to happen.

• To stop existing or reducing rapidly.

What word best replace the following verb phrase: spring up

• Suddenly emerge

• Enable

• Dissappear

• Die in

Match the right collocation for the word: tackle

• Solutions

• Challenges

• Issues

• A threat

Match the right collocation for the word: pose

• Solutions

• Challenges

• Issues

• A threat

Match the idiom with the correct meaning: a knock-on effect.

• A easy solution which is often temporary and does not address the problem fully.

• A issue which is difficult to deal with or solve.

• The effect that an action has on other situations.

• The basic or central point of a problem.

Match the right collocation: to have

• judgement on something

• something into consideration

• open to ideas

• a lot of faith in something

Match the right collocation: to resign

• judgement on something

• something into consideration

• oneself to something

• a lot of faith in something

Which of these words can be used to express strong opinion?

• partly

• marginally

• somewhat

• utterly

Select the right definition for the word: automation

• The use of computers and machines instead of people to do a job.

• Causing a lot of disagreement because many people have strong opinions about the subject.

• A new idea, method or invention.

• Easy to obtain or use.

Write the right collocation (take, break, catch, make). (a)   a glimpse.