WORD FORMATION

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1. Safety tests on old cars have been STANDARDIZED throughout Europe ( STANDARD )

2. We eventually began the LABORIOUS task of sorting through his papers ( LABOUR )

3. Children normally feel a lot of ANXIETIES about their first day at school ( ANXIETY )

4. That’s a very ARTISTIC flower arrangement you have there ( ART )

5. The engineering sector achieved significant GROWTH last year ( GROW )

6. He was BLEEDING from a wound in his shoulder ( BLOOD )

7. Her first novel, ENTITLED More Innocent Time, was published in 1977 ( TITLE )

8. There is a(n) SUPPOSEDLY simple explanation of what happened ( SUPPOSE )

9. Her face showed a(n) MIXTURE of fear and excitement ( MIX )

10. The reports are treated as strictly CONFIDENTIAL ( CONFIDENCE)

11. Watch how she does it and then do LIKEWISE ( LIKE)

12. The painting consists of for RECTANGULAR blocks of colour ( RECTANGLE )

13. The magazine offers tips on cutting your house MAINTENANCE ( MINTAIN )

14. The government has a policy of letting the MENTALLY ill be cared for in the community ( MIND )

15. That staircase of there is the most beautiful piece of CARPENTRY ( CARPENTTER )

16. In the exam we had to write one DESCRIPTIVE essay ( DESCRIBE )

17. I’m not ACCUSTOMED to being treated like this ( CUSTOM )

18. Hundreds of mature trees were UPROOTED in the storm ( ROOT )

19. How do we know humans EVOLVED from apes ( EVOLUTION )

20. He had grown up in a(n) ORPHANAGE because his mother could not take care of him ( ORPHAN
)

21. A UN force has been sent in to try and PACIFY the area worst affected by the civil war ( PEACE )

22. I am simply trying to ASCERTAIN the facts of the case ( CERTAIN )

23. If you come to the SURGERY at 10:30, the doctor will see you then ( SURGICAL )

24. In his later paintings he used a more HARMONIOUS blend of colours ( HARMONY )

25. It was a(n) REVELATION of the President’s involvement in secret arms deals that shocked the
nation ( REVEAL )
26. She has that reserve and slight coldness of manner which is TYPICALLY English ( TYPICAL )

27. She is accused of playing a(n) IGNOBLE part in the plot ( NOBLE )

28. The company is RECEPTED to new ideas at all times ( RECEIVE )

29. There were complaints that the advertisements were OFFENSIVE to women ( OFFEND )

30. We were all INDEBTED to you for your help ( DEBT )

31. The company is keen to develop its own EXPERTISE in the area of computer programming (
EXPERT )

32. He was VAIN about his looks, spending hours in the gym ( VANITY )

33. They knew that a vaccine for the virus was THEORICALLY possible ( THEORY )

34. Over 30,000 COMPETITORS will run in the New York marathon ( COMPETE )

35. The names of all the dead were INSCRIBED on the monument ( SCRIPT )

36. The new director of the TV station is likely to make major changes in PERSONNEL ( PERSON )

37. They claim that the fall in unemployment is based on a(n) FRAUDULENT manipulation of
statistics ( FRAUD )

38. The company was inefficient because it was highly BUREAUCRATIC ( BUREAU)

39. Gathered all together in the church, they are going to COMMEMORATE those who lost their
lives in the Great War ( MEMORY )

40. He is the author of three books and NUMERABLE articles ( NUMBER )

41. That was one of the most SPECTACULAR exhibitions I’ve seen ( SPECTACLE )

42. They’ve got very QUARRELSOME kids, as I remember ( QUARREL )

43. Kate was driven to the church for her wedding in a horse-drawn CARRIAGE ( CARRY )

44. There is something wrong with anyone who is so HABITUALLY rude ( HABIT )

45. The police have taken the FINGERPRINTS of every man in the neighborhood who matched the
rapist’s description ( FINGER )

46. They’ve got a model village that you can visit, with all the buildings and roads in MINIATURE (
MINI )

47. Plants keep cool during the summer by EVAPORATING water from their leaves ( VAPOUR )

48. The streets were ILLUMINATED with strings of coloured lights ( LUMINOUS )

49. TRAGICALLY, the side effects of the drugs were not discovered until many people had been
damaged by it ( TRAGEDY )

50. The RETENTION of old technology has slowed the company’s growth ( RETAIN )
51. They regarded him as the SAVIOUR of their country ( SAVE )

52. She bought a(n) BOOKLET about the castle from the tourist office ( BOOK )

53. It’s impossible to prove CONCLUSIVELY that that the factory is responsible for the pollution (
CONCLUDE )

54. The VOCAL sounds made by young babies were very similar to those used in early speech (
VOICE )

55. Children from a(n) UNDERPRIVILEDGED background are statistically more likely to become
involved in crime ( PRIVILEDGE )

56. The line between the real and the FABULOUS is very blurred in the film world ( FABLE )

57. This attack on a defenceless elderly person is an act of purely COWARDICE ( COWARD )

58. The program will take a detailed and PROVOCATIVELY look at the problem of homelessness (
PROVOKE )

59. He became editor of the LEGENDARY Irish journal ‘ The Bell ‘

60. Vitamin C increases the ABSORPTION of iron from food ( ABSORB )