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stle worms Wild War Photography a. continuous discharge of firearms or
– a hobbyist's guide Food Exhibition outburst of criticism
b. trite remark; commonplace state-
1. 7. 13. ment
a. attaching a. what a. timid c. disintegration; looseness in morals
b. tethering b. them b. light d. lack of harmony; absurdity
c. hitching c. these c. faint
d. lifting d. which d. hard 7. stipulate (verb)
a. to lay down as a condition of an
2. 8. 14. agreement; require by contract
a. extend a. sings a. windows b. to make impure by adding inferior or
b. range b. waxes b. holds tainted substances
c. reach c. exclaims c. chains c. to surrender unconditionally or on
d. stretch d. declares d. emotions stipulated terms
d. to spread widely or thinly
3. 9. 15.
a. retracted a. upfront a. unease 8. amity (noun)
b. withdrawn b. aloft b. qualms a. friendship; peaceful harmony
c. shrunk c. above c. apprehension b. a principle or body of principles pre-
d. recoiled d. ahead d. doubts sented for acceptance or belief; dogma
c. a writ requiring appearance in court
4. 10. 16. to give testimony
a. persuaded a. ascribed a. compelled d. riddle; difficult problem
b. analyzed b. featured b. obliged
c. contended c. lain c. imposed 9. discredit (verb)
d. posed d. characterized d. manipulated a. prevent by taking action in advance
b. defame; destroy confidence in; disbe-
5. 11. 17. lieve
a. take a. desire a. twinkling c. to show or feel triumphant joy
b. pose b. wish b. agonies d. waver; fluctuate
c. bear c. intention c. moments
d. contain d. goal d. throes 10. deign (verb)
a. to restrict or limit, as in amount or
6. 12. 18. number; be sparing with
a. famished a. keel a. suffice b. to mislead the mind of judgment of,
b. unwarranted b. fall b. just deceive
c. ambitious c. drop c. essential c. to think fit or in accordance with one’s
d. voracious d. plunge d. beg dignity
d. intimidate; frighten
IV. VOCABULARY ence to rules and customs
(10 x 1 point = 10 points) c. split; branching into two parts (espe- V. GAPPED SENTENCES
cially contradictory ones) (7 x 1 point = 7 points)
Match words to their definitions. d. merging into one
Think of ONE word only which can be
1. pusillanimous (adjective) 4. presumptuous (adjective) used appropriately in all three sentenc-
a. strong inclination; liking a. arrogant, haughty, condescending es.
b. hostile, unfriendly b. fundamentally distinct or different in
c. made less dense (of gas) kind; entirely dissimilar 1.
d. lacking courage or resolution c. arrogant; taking liberties 1. The employment crisis is [...........]
d. uncertain; not clearly fixed; indefinite that it is affecting one in four people.
2. infusion (noun) 2. [...........] torrential rain is rare in this
a. poverty 5. oblique (adjective) part of the world. 3. I didn't have a
b. deceit or trickery a. having a slanting or sloping direction problem with the new manager's ideas
c. liquid extract so obtained b. unclear or doubtful in meaning as [...........], but I disliked some of his
d. aggressiveness; ferocity c. meddlesome; excessively pushy in of- mannerisms.
fering one’s services
3. confluence (noun) d. becoming obsolete 2.
a. person celebrated for wisdom
b. correct behavior or conduct; obedi- 6. fusillade (noun)
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– a hobbyist's guide Food Exhibition outburst of criticism
b. trite remark; commonplace state-
1. 7. 13. ment
a. attaching a. what a. timid c. disintegration; looseness in morals
b. tethering b. them b. light d. lack of harmony; absurdity
c. hitching c. these c. faint
d. lifting d. which d. hard 7. stipulate (verb)
a. to lay down as a condition of an
2. 8. 14. agreement; require by contract
a. extend a. sings a. windows b. to make impure by adding inferior or
b. range b. waxes b. holds tainted substances
c. reach c. exclaims c. chains c. to surrender unconditionally or on
d. stretch d. declares d. emotions stipulated terms
d. to spread widely or thinly
3. 9. 15.
a. retracted a. upfront a. unease 8. amity (noun)
b. withdrawn b. aloft b. qualms a. friendship; peaceful harmony
c. shrunk c. above c. apprehension b. a principle or body of principles pre-
d. recoiled d. ahead d. doubts sented for acceptance or belief; dogma
c. a writ requiring appearance in court
4. 10. 16. to give testimony
a. persuaded a. ascribed a. compelled d. riddle; difficult problem
b. analyzed b. featured b. obliged
c. contended c. lain c. imposed 9. discredit (verb)
d. posed d. characterized d. manipulated a. prevent by taking action in advance
b. defame; destroy confidence in; disbe-
5. 11. 17. lieve
a. take a. desire a. twinkling c. to show or feel triumphant joy
b. pose b. wish b. agonies d. waver; fluctuate
c. bear c. intention c. moments
d. contain d. goal d. throes 10. deign (verb)
a. to restrict or limit, as in amount or
6. 12. 18. number; be sparing with
a. famished a. keel a. suffice b. to mislead the mind of judgment of,
b. unwarranted b. fall b. just deceive
c. ambitious c. drop c. essential c. to think fit or in accordance with one’s
d. voracious d. plunge d. beg dignity
d. intimidate; frighten
IV. VOCABULARY ence to rules and customs
(10 x 1 point = 10 points) c. split; branching into two parts (espe- V. GAPPED SENTENCES
cially contradictory ones) (7 x 1 point = 7 points)
Match words to their definitions. d. merging into one
Think of ONE word only which can be
1. pusillanimous (adjective) 4. presumptuous (adjective) used appropriately in all three sentenc-
a. strong inclination; liking a. arrogant, haughty, condescending es.
b. hostile, unfriendly b. fundamentally distinct or different in
c. made less dense (of gas) kind; entirely dissimilar 1.
d. lacking courage or resolution c. arrogant; taking liberties 1. The employment crisis is [...........]
d. uncertain; not clearly fixed; indefinite that it is affecting one in four people.
2. infusion (noun) 2. [...........] torrential rain is rare in this
a. poverty 5. oblique (adjective) part of the world. 3. I didn't have a
b. deceit or trickery a. having a slanting or sloping direction problem with the new manager's ideas
c. liquid extract so obtained b. unclear or doubtful in meaning as [...........], but I disliked some of his
d. aggressiveness; ferocity c. meddlesome; excessively pushy in of- mannerisms.
fering one’s services
3. confluence (noun) d. becoming obsolete 2.
a. person celebrated for wisdom
b. correct behavior or conduct; obedi- 6. fusillade (noun)
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