WorksheetsVocab quiz a04 09.02
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 6mins
"The leader" of a meeting or a working party is called (mark all possible answers):
a chairperson
a chairman
a chair individual
a chairwoman
a chair
If someone is meticulous, they:
pay a lot of attention to details
are not very tall
are very rational
often talk without thinking first
In a sentence: "We've made a terrible mistake", a good synonym for the word terrible would be:
failing
egregious
metric
ventured
The word venture is NOT used correctly in the sentence:
It was obvious she was scared of venturing anywhere near the edge of the cliff.
Mike was in charge of their ill-conceived venture while it was running, or at least that's what I've heard.
More than £8000 was needed to fund the venture, but at last the company took off.
North of the lake the forest trees and general venture look very enticing.
A handout can mean (tick all correct answers):
a piece of paper with the most important info from a talk at a conference
a xerox given to students at a lecture
a sum of money from government, like social aid
a big poster you can see on a billboard
If you want to know an opinion of a group of people, you might want to conduct a ...
form
probe
survey
questionnaire
How many hemispheres are there in any spherical object?
2
4
3
1
In the sentence: "Mark's solution to the problem is actually quite convoluted", convoluted could be replaced by:
simplistic
unachievable
brilliant
complex
A good synonym for quit, as in the sentence "Tom wasn't doing well at school, so he decided to quit" will be:
get going
drop out
run off
take off
"You're such a ... ! You always ruin people's fun with your comments!"
quick wit
down to earth
spoilsport
collocation
