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WorksheetsVocab Test 31
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 13mins
If the pandemic does not ameliorate, our company will surely ______.
fall afoul
hit out of the park
go down the tubes
go under the knife
The business model you propose sounds amazing, but whether it might succeed in reality is where _____.
rubber meets the road
the shoe pinches
the puck is heading
hell freezes over
Jack, your passion won't help you afford a living in this big city, wake up and smell ______.
the tea
the coffee
the soda
the roses
John keeps himself so closed off that I've never understood the _____ of his thoughts.
rock bottom
bare bones
think tank
uncharted waters
There are a lot of opportunities out there, but I've got to put my foot on the _____.
pedal
gas
brake
field
The _____ language in your essay does nothing to address the problem but only unnecessarily lengthens the piece of writing and causes confusion for readers.
convoluted
elasticated
sentimental
dowdy
The company's first _____ into the US market is considered somewhat venturesome for a firm of that scale.
outing
foray
incursion
pilgrimage
Despite not being Buddhists ourselves, it is hard to deny that this religion still ____ every aspect of our life either consciously or subconsciously.
ravels
assails
informs
apprises
The team played badly in the first half of the game but _____ in the second thanks to several changes in their tactics.
rebounded
rallied
revived
reignited
She was fired after having many decisions that are in _____ of the company regulations.
abdication
infraction
negligence
contravention
Loki’s ______ character reminds me of Captain Jack Sparrow, a pirate who is also a mixture of amusement and mischief.
roguish
narcissistic
reticent
ravenous
Would it be too much of a(n) _____ to ask you to pick my children up after school today?
tariff
onus
imposition
angst
Superficially, the mechanism of a camera is _____ to that of our eyes, yet there are still certain major differences in the way they record images.
homogeneous
kindred
correlative
analogous
His wife _____ a fortune over the years in a secret bank account and ran away with her young lover.
salted away
plugged away
mucked up
heaped up
If you keep ______ training like this, stop dreaming of cutting any weight and getting the job.
poring over
turning out
sacking off
ravelling out
After being dismissed from school, Thomas Edison was (a) by his mother (SCHOOL)
The casino has long been suspected as a (a) channel for laundering money. (DOOR)
Annie looks so much like an Indian that it’s hard to believe this little girl is of Vietnamese (a) . (TRACT)
(a) is a form of sustainable energy production, achieved by converting the kinetic energy of water into electrical or mechanical energy. (POWER)
Although same-sex love is gaining more social recognition, (a) relationship in our society remains heterosexual. (NORM)
