Advanced Vocabulary Test 1 - ESL Vocabulary Exercises

Advanced Vocabulary Test 1 - ESL Vocabulary Exercises
5. Police rescued the two minors who were .......... by

1. He admits ............... that he is a bit of a womanizer. their former nanny last week.
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
3. How or when my great rage began to abate I cannot

say. Somehow it began to wane, and it waned quite 7. A civilized man respects all life and ............... cruelty
rapidly. I ............... my composure within a few to animals.
minutes.
A) appeases
A) appealed B) abhors
B) indulged C) atones for
C) fidgeted D) assimilates
D) regained E) attests
E) cured
8. Spherical ............... is an optical effect occurring

4. Due to his general frail health, the king may soon when the oblique rays entering a lens are focused in
.......... the throne in favour of his son. a different location than the central rays.
A) abdicate A) abomination
B) advocate B) abduction
C) agitate C) abstraction
D) abbreviate D) aberration
E) assume E) abrogation
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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
10. Organic chemistry, as a science, I truly esteem and

admire; but memorising all those lengthy formulas I 14. ARGUMENT: "______ is the most effective solution to
really ............... and abhor. unwanted pregnancy and sexual disease."
COUNTER-ARGUMENT: "In which case, I'd rather
A) abominate choose death."
B) adulate
A) Over-indulgence
C) adorn
B) Strict absorption
D) accost
C) Complete abstinence
E) adjourn
D) Horrid abhorrence
E) Abrupt aberration
11. Ancient literature ............... prose and poetry

concerned with homosexual love. They are
everywhere. 15. No one in the world could solve such an abstruse
problem. Abstruse means ______.
A) teams with
B) abounds in A) complex and difficult to understand
C) commemorates B) simple and easy for mathematicians
D) is bereft of C) lucid enough for the thoughtful
E) betrays D) absurd in the highest degree possible
E) laggard and leisurely
12. Following a heated debate in the Parliament, the

defence treaty signed last year was finally ratified. 16. Just point a ............... in the right direction, will you?
To ratify means to ______. All I am asking for is a little help in getting this
program started.
A) appease
B) abrogate A) vagrant
C) give formal sanction to B) courier
D) annul C) pedestrian
E) send to the Constitutional Court D) novice
E) messenger

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
18. Even though I was quickly sinking into a(n) ...............

of despair, something in me was not ready to give 22. At the age of 64, he was now at the ............... of his
up. career as an influential and outspoken member of
parliament.
A) glee
B) mirth A) abyss
C) euphoria B) nadir
D) hilarity C) acme
E) abyss D) ebb
E) nether
19. Berbat Süleyman, one of the most bloodthirsty

hoodlums in the underworld, was unforgiving toward 23. He now acquiesced in every directive he received
his adversaries. He did not hesitate to order the from his boss, just as he once acquiesced to all his
murder of Yedibela Yusuf, his arch ______. parents' wishes. Acquiesce means: ______.
A) bambino A) comply with

B) accomplice B) balk at
C) foe C) disagree with
D) cherub D) dissent from
E) confederate E) dissuade from
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
26. Animal ............... is the agricultural practice of

breeding and raising livestock. 29. His business acumen was such that with the passing
of the years he rose to be a director of the company.
A) husbandry Acumen means: ______.
B) heraldry
A) oblivion
C) wifery
B) ineptness
D) protection
C) obtuseness
E) manufacturing
D) astuteness
E) naïveté
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


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5. Police rescued the two minors who were .......... by

3. How or when my great rage began to abate I cannot

8. Spherical ............... is an optical effect occurring

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11. Ancient literature ............... prose and poetry

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