English Vocabulary Exam 8

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Eiken Grade 1 test
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Question 1

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

Question 2

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

Question 3

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

Question 4

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

Question 5

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

Question 6

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

Question 7

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

Question 8

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

Question 9

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

Question 10

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

Question 11

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

Question 12

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

Question 13

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

Question 14

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

Question 15

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

Question 16

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

Question 17

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

Question 18

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

Question 19

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

Question 20

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

Question 21

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

Question 22

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

Question 23

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

Question 24

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

Question 25

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