English Vocabulary Exam 8

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Eiken Grade 1 test
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Questão 1

Questão
Throughout the night, the firemen worked to ( ) the apartment fire.
Responda
  • douse
  • louse
  • rouse
  • sous

Questão 2

Questão
The party ( ) badly in the spring elections.
Responda
  • fared
  • seared
  • bared
  • marred

Questão 3

Questão
I can’t believe you are trying to sell me a car in such a ( ) condition.
Responda
  • deplorable
  • adorable
  • bearable
  • tableau

Questão 4

Questão
They had a ( ) food supply, which is why the refugees had to carefully ration.
Responda
  • sparse
  • parse
  • bursar
  • rationale

Questão 5

Questão
Because Mark and Katy are ( ) fans of the television show, they never miss an episode of the series.
Responda
  • fervent
  • rabid
  • lucid
  • torpid

Questão 6

Questão
While I expected my elderly neighbor to be rude, he was actually ( ) and invited me in for tea.
Responda
  • genial
  • voracious
  • sinuous
  • morose

Questão 7

Questão
Compared to her mother’s organized system, Jen’s approach to housekeeping was ( ), at best.
Responda
  • haphazard
  • meticulous
  • ludicrous
  • salacious

Questão 8

Questão
PETA ( ) opposes those who eat, use, or enterprise off of animal flesh.
Responda
  • vehemently
  • cosily
  • studiously
  • elaborately

Questão 9

Questão
My husband used the feather to trace a ( ) path around my face.
Responda
  • sensuous
  • villous
  • dogged
  • serrated

Questão 10

Questão
The problem ( ) one thing - lack of money.
Responda
  • boils down to
  • hash out
  • knuckle down
  • shy away from

Questão 11

Questão
Mr. Baker is ill today, so Miss Dixon is ( ) him (as your teacher).
Responda
  • sitting in for
  • getting back at
  • sprucing up
  • leafing through

Questão 12

Questão
I think he's trying to ( ) her for those remarks she made in the meeting.
Responda
  • get back at
  • plow through
  • round at
  • stick it out

Questão 13

Questão
I've never ( ) hard work.
Responda
  • shied away from
  • wait upon
  • write off
  • bolt down

Questão 14

Questão
"It's very difficult," I said. "Impossible," she ( ).
Responda
  • chimed in
  • butt out of
  • look out for
  • queue up

Questão 15

Questão
They've employed an advertising agency to ( ) the company image.
Responda
  • spruce up
  • branch out
  • bail out
  • fall through

Questão 16

Questão
She didn't want a husband who would ( ) her career.
Responda
  • be a drag on
  • get out of
  • read up on
  • come down with

Questão 17

Questão
( ) and make room for your sister.
Responda
  • Scoot over
  • Makeover
  • Step up
  • Watch over

Questão 18

Questão
Late one evening, Gianni ( ) that he loved her.
Responda
  • blurted out
  • set out
  • whipped up
  • thawed out

Questão 19

Questão
If you show up with green hair, your parents will never let you ( ).
Responda
  • live it down
  • stand out
  • pop into
  • set someone back

Questão 20

Questão
At the last minute, we ( ) a couple of spectators to complete the team.
Responda
  • roped in
  • carry out
  • come up
  • sort out

Questão 21

Questão
The waiting room was full of people ( ) magazines.
Responda
  • leafing through
  • wrapping up
  • taking down
  • turning up

Questão 22

Questão
My dad ( ) these vitamin pills.
Responda
  • swears by
  • burn out
  • clog up
  • break out

Questão 23

Questão
He managed to ( ) a living - earn just enough on - one summer by selling drinks on a beach.
Responda
  • eke out
  • geek out
  • fork out
  • put aside

Questão 24

Questão
When they reached Trafalgar Square, the demonstrators were ( ) both sides by the police.
Responda
  • hemmed in
  • run up against
  • staked out
  • locked up

Questão 25

Questão
We're still trying to ( ) some problems with the computer system.
Responda
  • iron out
  • think up
  • fight off
  • block out

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