LEXICON LEGEND LANGUAGE WEEK 2025

Before you answer this quiz, write down your:
1) Full name (e.g. NUR AISYAH BINTI ASYRAAF)

2) Matric number (e.g. 211011)
3) Phone number (e.g. 017-1234567)
4) English Language course code and section number (e.g. LEM0754 - 808)

1.        The adverse effects of this drug, including dizziness, nausea and headaches, have caused it to be withdrawn from the market. Adverse means

• mixed

• critical

• approving

Some animals have remarkable longevity. For example, the giant land tortoise can live several hundred years. Longevity means

• appearances

• length of life

• habits

Trying to control everything teenagers do can impede their growth. To advance their development, allow them to make decisions independently. Impede means

• block

• predict

• improve

Although investments in the stock market can be lucrative, they can also result in great financial loss. Lucrative means

• necessary

• profitable

• risky

Suicide rates tend to fluctuate with the seasons, with much higher rates in the winter than in the summer. Fluctuate means

• disappear

• stay the same

• go up and down

Humans are resilient creatures - they can often bounce back from negative experiences and adjust well to life. Resilient means

• able to recover

• living

• not flexible

  Whether or not there is life in outer space is an enigma. We may never know for sure until we are capable of space travel or aliens actually land on our planet. Enigma means

• problem

• certainty

• mystery

Choose the word that is closest in meaning to "arduous":

• Easy

• Dangerous

• Difficult

• Hard

Choose the word that is closest in meaning to "diminish"

• Increase

• Devalue

• Destroy

• Reduce