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Vocabulary workshop A review

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

I advise you to take every ____________ necessary to prevent a household fire.

a)

ritual

b)

epic

c)

precaution

d)

data

2.

Now that the two candidates have finished their long, hard campaigns, it is up to the voters to say which one will _______.

a)

dispatch

b)

prevail

c)

sabotage

d)

spoof

3.

Many a perfectly healthy employee has been know to _________ illness to avoid going to work.

a)

predict

b)

sham

c)

retaliate

d)

pretend

4.

each member of the basketball team was awarded a trophy to _________________ the championship season.

a)

commemorate

b)

transform

c)

tally

d)

seek

5.

The young actor's ____________ rise to fame became legendary.

a)

periodic

b)

meteoric

c)

dogged

d)

amble

6.

When the shocking news finally reached us, we were completely ______________.

a)

hilarious

b)

dumbfounded

c)

determined

d)

stunned

7.

Her back injury was so severe that he has been placed in a cast and will have to remain __________ for months.

a)

martial

b)

innovated

c)

immobile

d)

jovial

8.

Are you ________ enough to believe in everything you hear ?

a)

sinister

b)

boisterous

c)

talented

d)

gullible

9.

Each of the items on the __________ for our meeting today will probably requires a geed deal of discussion.

a)

agenda

b)

carnality

c)

reimbubsement

d)

fridge benefits

10.

I don't think democracy can ___________ in an atmosphere of racial and religious hatred.

a)

balk

b)

thrive

c)

sabotage

d)

resist

11.

The Antarctic Treaty preserved Antarctic from corrupt or _________ exploitation.

a)

unprincipled

b)

trustworthy

c)

decent

d)

unscrupulous

12.

Even though some animals are ferocious and attach livestock, we should not be ___________ from protecting their dwindling population.

a)

defied

b)

deterred

c)

ditched

d)

damaged

13.

I find it hard to __________ from these tempting and delicious desserts.

a)

void

b)

deject

c)

abstain

d)

resist

14.

If you bring counterfeit products into the country, they will be _______________ by the customs.

a)

confiscated

b)

seized

c)

preferred

d)

overlooked

15.

Although she usually acted meek, during tough times she showed more ____________ than any one else.

a)

mockery

b)

courage

c)

restlessness

d)

grit

16.

He spent so much time dawdling over which movie to see that by the time he made a decision, both films had already started. The word "Dawdling" is closest to ...

a)

loafing

b)

working

c)

fighting

d)

napping

17.

In the days of silent movies, actors and actresses had to express ideas and emotions by means of __________.

a)

retaliation

b)

devastation

c)

pantomime

d)

epic

18.

Now that the two candidates have finished their long, hard campaigns, it is up to the voters to say which one will ________.

a)

maze

b)

refute

c)

dispatch

d)

prevail

19.

The police ________ the anxious hostages after 16 hours of confinement.

a)

freed

b)

united

c)

liberated

d)

released

20.

After being defeated in a war that lasted from 1846 to 1848, Mexico was forced to ___________ vast territories to the United States.

a)

surrender

b)

cede

c)

merge

d)

yield