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English Vocabulary Exam 8

Question 1 of 25

1

Throughout the night, the firemen worked to ( ) the apartment fire.

Select one of the following:

  • douse

  • louse

  • rouse

  • sous

Explanation

Question 2 of 25

1

The party ( ) badly in the spring elections.

Select one of the following:

  • fared

  • seared

  • bared

  • marred

Explanation

Question 3 of 25

1

I can’t believe you are trying to sell me a car in such a ( ) condition.

Select one of the following:

  • deplorable

  • adorable

  • bearable

  • tableau

Explanation

Question 4 of 25

1

They had a ( ) food supply, which is why the refugees had to carefully ration.

Select one of the following:

  • sparse

  • parse

  • bursar

  • rationale

Explanation

Question 5 of 25

1

Because Mark and Katy are ( ) fans of the television show, they never miss an episode of the series.

Select one of the following:

  • fervent

  • rabid

  • lucid

  • torpid

Explanation

Question 6 of 25

1

While I expected my elderly neighbor to be rude, he was actually ( ) and invited me in for tea.

Select one of the following:

  • genial

  • voracious

  • sinuous

  • morose

Explanation

Question 7 of 25

1

Compared to her mother’s organized system, Jen’s approach to housekeeping was ( ), at best.

Select one of the following:

  • haphazard

  • meticulous

  • ludicrous

  • salacious

Explanation

Question 8 of 25

1

PETA ( ) opposes those who eat, use, or enterprise off of animal flesh.

Select one of the following:

  • vehemently

  • cosily

  • studiously

  • elaborately

Explanation

Question 9 of 25

1

My husband used the feather to trace a ( ) path around my face.

Select one of the following:

  • sensuous

  • villous

  • dogged

  • serrated

Explanation

Question 10 of 25

1

The problem ( ) one thing - lack of money.

Select one of the following:

  • boils down to

  • hash out

  • knuckle down

  • shy away from

Explanation

Question 11 of 25

1

Mr. Baker is ill today, so Miss Dixon is ( ) him (as your teacher).

Select one of the following:

  • sitting in for

  • getting back at

  • sprucing up

  • leafing through

Explanation

Question 12 of 25

1

I think he's trying to ( ) her for those remarks she made in the meeting.

Select one of the following:

  • get back at

  • plow through

  • round at

  • stick it out

Explanation

Question 13 of 25

1

I've never ( ) hard work.

Select one of the following:

  • shied away from

  • wait upon

  • write off

  • bolt down

Explanation

Question 14 of 25

1

"It's very difficult," I said. "Impossible," she ( ).

Select one of the following:

  • chimed in

  • butt out of

  • look out for

  • queue up

Explanation

Question 15 of 25

1

They've employed an advertising agency to ( ) the company image.

Select one of the following:

  • spruce up

  • branch out

  • bail out

  • fall through

Explanation

Question 16 of 25

1

She didn't want a husband who would ( ) her career.

Select one of the following:

  • be a drag on

  • get out of

  • read up on

  • come down with

Explanation

Question 17 of 25

1

( ) and make room for your sister.

Select one of the following:

  • Scoot over

  • Makeover

  • Step up

  • Watch over

Explanation

Question 18 of 25

1

Late one evening, Gianni ( ) that he loved her.

Select one of the following:

  • blurted out

  • set out

  • whipped up

  • thawed out

Explanation

Question 19 of 25

1

If you show up with green hair, your parents will never let you ( ).

Select one of the following:

  • live it down

  • stand out

  • pop into

  • set someone back

Explanation

Question 20 of 25

1

At the last minute, we ( ) a couple of spectators to complete the team.

Select one of the following:

  • roped in

  • carry out

  • come up

  • sort out

Explanation

Question 21 of 25

1

The waiting room was full of people ( ) magazines.

Select one of the following:

  • leafing through

  • wrapping up

  • taking down

  • turning up

Explanation

Question 22 of 25

1

My dad ( ) these vitamin pills.

Select one of the following:

  • swears by

  • burn out

  • clog up

  • break out

Explanation

Question 23 of 25

1

He managed to ( ) a living - earn just enough on - one summer by selling drinks on a beach.

Select one of the following:

  • eke out

  • geek out

  • fork out

  • put aside

Explanation

Question 24 of 25

1

When they reached Trafalgar Square, the demonstrators were ( ) both sides by the police.

Select one of the following:

  • hemmed in

  • run up against

  • staked out

  • locked up

Explanation

Question 25 of 25

1

We're still trying to ( ) some problems with the computer system.

Select one of the following:

  • iron out

  • think up

  • fight off

  • block out

Explanation

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