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Advanced Vocabulary Test 1 - ESL Vocabulary Exercises
Advanced Vocabulary Test 1 - ESL Vocabulary Exercises
A) plumply A) adulated
B) usurpingly B) adorned
C) genealogically C) abashed
D) unabashedly D) augmented
E) fastidiously E) abducted
2. The farmers are obviously eager to adopt any means 6. I find it truly ............... that scientific knowledge and
to ............... the salinity levels back down to some of our best human resources should be wasted
acceptable levels. on researching and developing new ways to maim
and kill one another.
A) crab
B) sprout A) augustan
C) abate B) admirable
D) contaminate C) avaricious
E) counterfeit D) avant garde
E) abominable
A) abdicate A) abomination
B) advocate B) abduction
C) agitate C) abstraction
D) abbreviate D) aberration
E) assume E) abrogation
9. To ............... something is to renounce it or abstain 13. About three kilometers from Mordoğan, the road
from it, with the implication that this is done publicly. takes an ............... left hand turn and goes down into
a valley teeming with lush olive trees.
A) simulate
B) astound A) lascivious
C) augment B) abrupt
D) abjure C) improper
E) condone D) abstruse
E) interminable
17. Friedrich Engels himself was a capitalist who later in 21. The sanctions are to continue until Israel ...............
life became a(n) ............... opponent of capitalism. the UN resolutions, one of which calls for a peaceful
settlement in Palestine.
A) retrospective
B) impenetrable A) aggravates
C) generous B) abides by
D) ambiguous C) violates
E) outspoken D) proclaims
E) pays lip service to
20. A young man was ______ by some ruffians on a lonely 24. I think one would be justified in saying that today we
street. "Galatasaray or Fenerbahçe?" he was queried live in an acquisitive society. Acquisitive means:
in a threatening manner. Not knowing which group ----------------.
had stopped him, the young man cleverly replied,
"Beşiktaş" -- and received a few knuckle sandwiches A) greedy, covetous and materialistic
anyway... B) technologically developed but with low morale
A) whimpered C) with humane and charitable feelings in the fore
B) giggled D) incredibly altruistic -- utterly and thoroughly
C) shrieked E) as self-denying and self-sacrificing as can be
D) accosted
E) blubbered
25. Some say kımız has a ---------------- aftertaste. It 28. Collaborative divorce uses negotiation and
seems that they find it somewhat "acrid". Needless cooperation to achieve a settlement with minimal
to say, I quite disagree with them. acrimony between the parties involved. Acrimony
means: ______.
A) bitter and sourish
B) deliciously savoury A) civility
C) rotten and putrid B) bitterness
D) exquisitely palatable C) decency
E) sweet and sour D) deference
E) urbanity
27. The boss flew into a rage at the janitor's stupidity and
it took a lot of tact to ............... him.
30. According to an old adage in medicine, “if you don’t
A) lure look for it, you will never diagnose it.” Adage means:
B) soothe ______.
C) brace A) neophyte
D) chafe B) maxim
E) nudge C) syllogism
D) paradox
E) shibboleth
Answer Key:
1: D 16: D
2: C 17: E
3: D 18: E
4: A 19: C
5: E 20: D
6: E 21: B
7: B 22: C
8: D 23: A
9: D 24: A
10: A 25: A
11: B 26: A
12: C 27: B
13: B 28: B
14: C 29: D
15: A 30: B