Advanced Vocabulary
Exercise 1
Read the sentences below and decide which of these words best fits each space. You may need need to change the form of the word.
redolent; incapable; precluded; rite; confer; rendering; correlation; prevail; officiating; deploy; criterion; reminiscent; clarified; obey; bestow.
1 - The small number of students have offering as many courses this year. 2 - Magda is 3 - Could you completely. 4 - There's little degree. 5 - This is a strange custom that still 6 - Students should 7 - A priest . between success in life and a university the book into Polish from English. the first point please? I don't understand it the school from
their teachers without question! at the wedding.
8 - Gosia's an excellent mathematician, but as a lecturer she's totally
. a powerful argument against the proposal. an honourary degree on Lech
9 - He
10 - Szczecin University Wasa. 11 - The Professorship was
upon him in 1999.
12 -The success of the school should not be judged by financial
alone. before you're
13 - You have to go through an initiation accepted into the Tolkien society. 14 - This room is College. 15 - One of my new students is Exercise 2
of the the smell of the old library at Trinity
of my ex-girlfriend.
Read the sentences below and decide which of these words best fits each space. You may need need to change the form of the word. fabrication, concoct, prevaricate, evasive, perjure, duplicity, candid, authentic, venerable, validity, erroneous, veracious, credence, pretence, deceive. 1 - Hania is exam. 2 - I was officer. 3 - His bruises added beaten. 4 - They were accused of 5 - Donata kept up a in their dealings with both sides. of normality as long as she could. . to his statement that he had been over whether to take the Cambridge FCE
by his uniform - I really thought he was a police
6 - The evidence she gave in court was a complete
7 - Just give me a straight answer, won't you, and stop question! 8 - She has an 9 - He held the be. 10 - He Irish accent.
the
belief that the more it cost the better it must
a story about working late at the office, but I knew
he was out with his secretary. 11 - Doubts were cast on the of her alibi after three people
claimed to have seen her at the scene of the murder. 12 - To be with you, I've always found you very attractive. herself. to the theory that the
13 - The judge warned the witness not to 14 - This research seems to lend some drug might cause hair-loss. 15 - Robert Burns is perhaps Scotland's most
poet.
Exercise 3 Read the sentences below and decide which of these words best fits each space. You may need need to change the form of the word. nightmare, slumber, soporific, somnambulist, insomnia, consolidate, lucid, exemplify, enhance, pompous, entrepreneur, turbulent, verify, snooze, doze.
1 - I was lulled back into
by the gentle sound of the river. your
2 - Eating strong cheese before you go to sleep can dreams! 3 - Ernest had three
marriages, which all ended in divorce.
4 - Today, for the first time in months, Szymon spoke to us quite
. occasion, with speeches and
5 - The dinner was an extremely formal toasts. 6 - Magda was a
. She often woke up on a different floor of
her block wearing only a nightdress, after wandering outside her flat in her sleep! 7 - I think I'll take a before my lessons at 'COUNTDOWN'. . I dreamt that I was
8 - Last night I had the most terrifying trapped inside a lift full of nuns!
9 - These figures are surprisingly high and they'll have to be 10 - The office was so hot I nearly 11 - Her off at my desk.
voice made it difficult to stay awake in the lecture. their relationship. the naturalistic style which was so
12 - She hoped that marriage would 13 - This painting perfectly popular at the time. 14 - He'll make money - he's got that
spirit.
15 - She went to the doctor's because she was suffering from
Exercise 4 Read the sentences below and decide which of these words best fits each space. You may need need to change the form of the word. perpetrator, grievance, pretentious, antipathy, insouciance, incessant, zealot, abhor, fanatic, wrongdoer, continual, absolve, indifferent, support, hate. 1 - Religious 2 - of any kind make me sick! for the terrorist group usually increases after a bomb attack. .
3 - These students have a healthy suspicion of art college 4 - They have been accused of committing 5 - Many people are unhappy at the
acts of terrorism. with which several
American newspapers treat terrorism committed by the I.R.A. 6 - The accident happened as a result of years of of the safety regulators. 7 - Gosia still harbours a promoting her. 8 - The vandalism was carried out by rights movement. 9 - The report 10 - I've had into my new flat. her of all blame for the accident. problems with my neighbours ever since I moved elements in the animalon the part
against her employers for not
11 - Federal soldiers have been accused of innocent people. 12 - You can't make a statement like that without any evidence. 13 - They have been accused of committing 14 - There was a great desire to punish the from committing similar crimes in the future. 15 - He was the most teacher in the school.
atrocities against
acts of terrorism. and deter them
