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Unit 1 Vocabulary

Total questions: 11

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

"There's a _____, and increasingly angry mood on the issue. No one talks about it, but everybody is full of resentment.

a)

barren

b)

trivial

c)

sullen

d)

alight

2.

When the ___ ends at noon tomorrow, it will only be a matter of time before gunfire is heard again.

a)

vicious

b)

hurtle

c)

truce

d)

dynasty

3.

It's a great miniature motorbike that you can actually ride and will ____ you about the place at speeds of up to 30mph.

a)

germinate

b)

alight

c)

hurtle

d)

trickle

4.

The pressure to conform to all these ____ values in nowaday's society is absolutely enormous.

a)

adjacent

b)

interminable

c)

vicious

d)

trivial

5.

This was not a ____ creature standing before him, but a breathtakingly beautiful, gigantic wolf.

a)

interminable

b)

trivial

c)

vicious

d)

sullen

6.

His poetry expresses discontent with orderly lives and ______ routine, praising spontaneity and emotion.

a)

vicious

b)

sullen

c)

barren

d)

humdrum

7.

The country was mostly poor and ____, sandy hillocks, with scanty growth of spinifex.

a)

barren

b)

alight

c)

adjacent

d)

sullen

8.

Recent legislation has reduced immigration to a ___.

a)

disrupt

b)

truce

c)

trickle

d)

humdrum

9.

Water is still _____ -ing out of the gutter after last night's heavy rain.

a)

disrupt

b)

renovate

c)

trickle

d)

hurtle

10.

The rain was just a _____ of the approaching hurricane.

a)

truce

b)

foretaste

c)

germinate

d)

trickle

11.

It is feared that low-flying seagulls could ____ events such as beach volleyball.

a)

foretaste

b)

disrupt

c)

hurtle

d)

trickle