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 ESSENTIAL VOCABULARY - 10 6. You should put all your ---- in electronics to
use in your new job if you want to gain
popularity with the boss in a short time.
1. It is ---- that around 300,000 Lebanese people
live in Ivory Coast.
A) sorrow
B) challenge
A) ceased
C) inspiration
B) surveyed
D) dismissal
C) estimated
E) experience
D) flourished
E) abandoned

7. It really was very ---- of him to tell you that he

2. According to our ----, money is given to
had seen your boyfriend with someone else
dancers in between dances by placing it in
in front of all those people.
the dancers’ mouths.
A) unwise
A) predictions
B) evitable
B) livelihoods
C) considerable
C) eruptions
D) nourishing
D) customs
E) hesitant
E) contradictions

8. Rosewater should absolutely be used on a

3. The teacher said that a/an ---- portion of the
daily basis, ---- after cleansing but before
exam would be based on the book we had
moisturizing the skin.
studied during the semester.
A) randomly
A) tireless
B) greedily
B) neglectful C) implicitly
C) emotional D) charitably
D) resistible E) especially
E) significant

9. I thought the teacher was going to be so angry

4. She knew ---- that something was wrong, when she ---- that I hadn’t finished all my work,
even before she saw the smoke. but, surprisingly enough, she wasn’t so.
A) tactfully A) urged
B) strikingly B) advised
C) enormously C) required
D) instinctively D) realised
E) substantially E) accompanied

5. When we ---- the area, we saw that hundreds 10. The pineal gland, a tiny gland located in the
of people had organized a major event, which back of the brain, creates the neurotransmitters
is typical when important people visit the melatonin and serotonin, but its actual ---- is not
village. entirely clear.

A) vomited A) serenity
B) reached B) exposure
C) withdrew C) defiance
D) hesitated D) purpose
E) surrendered E) tolerance

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11. Your chances of passing all your exams 16. She was ---- affected by the death of her
without doing any studying are very ---- friend, but she has managed to come to
indeed. terms with that now.

A) slim A) slightly
B) greedy B) shallowly
C) imprecise C) superficially
D) external D) inventively
E) hazardous E) profoundly

12. The merciless terrorists killed those in the 17. A wise man gave a speech that ---- us with
school ----, because not only teachers and information about the tribe.
students but also a few of the parents of the
students died. A) abused
B) exposed
A) humbly C) provided
B) hesitantly D) regretted
C) exclusively E) substituted
D) ineffectively
E) indiscriminately

13. The Namib Desert is one of the desert-loving 18. When a ---- of lipoprotein lipase exists, fatty
tourists’ destinations where visitors go to ---- deposits might accumulate in the blood,
in various activities like hot air ballooning which may lead to obesity.
and climbing.
A) modesty
A) result B) revenge
B) engage C) supplement
C) attribute D) hindrance
D) desire E) deficiency
E) comply

14. This article highlights the significant ---- 19. My brother is so ---- that I never worry about
made in reducing maternal mortality in South his losing my personal belongings when he
Asia, but cautions that it still remains slow in borrows them.
other parts of the world.
A) fatal
A) progress B) reliable
B) revenge C) inevitable
C) defiance D) deficient
D) menace E) passionate
E) prejudice

15. It is not enough to be talented to play music; 20. If you have sensitive skin, it is important to
you also have to be ---- about what you are know ---- what is in a product, and that those
doing. ingredients are safe to use.

A) greedy A) rapidly
B) hesitant B) exactly
C) passionate C) distantly
D) compulsory D) steadily
E) contradictory E) promptly

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21. The food could have been nicer if I hadn’t ---- 26. Mike knew that he would be in serious trouble
the cream due to the fact that my father is with his parents if he told them the truth, so
allergic to dairy products. he ---- a story about going to the movies with
his friends.
A) left out
B) put off A) set out
C) seen off B) put out
D) given away C) went on
E) gone away D) made up
E) brought about

22. I can’t ---- my wife, because I don’t know if 27. Football has a huge following across the world,
she has plans this weekend or not, but I especially in Europe and Latin America, but it
would love to come to your house for dinner. has never ---- in the United States.

A) lay off A) carried on

B) take up B) relied on
C) speak for C) caught on
D) pull down D) kept on
E) run into E) counted on

23. If you ---- any cheap detective books while 28. Safety measures and education campaigns
you are at the market, can you buy one for across the world have ---- a decline in the
me? I need something easy to read on my number of people killed in traffic accidents.
flight next week.
A) cut down on
A) lay off B) keep up with
B) give up C) brought about
C) run into D) done away with
D) take off E) taken part in
E) run away

24. ‘BBC’ ---- the British Broadcasting 29. We don’t suppose we can ever ---- the shock
Corporation, and is one of the most trusted of finding a burglar in our house two weeks
media organisations in the world. ago.

A) stands for A) try out

B) calls off B) go over
C) puts away C) put out
D) rules out D) get over
E) carries out E) cut across

25. Thousands of workers had to be ---- when the 30. Insulin is an extremely important hormone,
company went bankrupt during the economic which helps ---- sugars ---- energy that can be
crisis. used by the body’s cells.

A) laid off A) hold / up

B) taken up B) turn / into
C) put away C) take / off
D) taken on D) give / away
E) tried on E) break / out

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31. Even though embryos used are at an 36. Scientists are beginning to adopt innovative
immature stage ---- development, some approaches ---- converting available energy
people are opposed ---- stem cell research. ---- chemical fuels.

A) in / at A) for / at
B) by / for B) by / on
C) of / to C) to / into
D) upon / by D) up / off
E) for / over E) on / by

37. Aspirin can increase bleeding ---- preventing

blood ---- clotting.

32. Green plants are an essential part ---- any A) by / from

garden and provide shelter ---- numerous B) for / into
insects. C) at / about
D) on / over
A) by / to E) in / around
B) of / for
C) at / over 38. Greenhouse gases ---- human activity have
D) into / about been accumulating in the atmosphere ---- at
E) in / against least 150 years.

A) about / near
B) against / by
33. If you are learning a new language, you C) into / from
should practice speaking ---- another person D) from / for
and surround yourself ---- immersive E) due to / about
experiences.
39. Dogs can be aggressive ---- other dogs,
A) to / by especially if they have not been properly
B) from / to socialized ---- other dogs.
C) with / with
D) by / over A) of / into
E) into / at B) on / at
C) with / with
D) from / by
34. It is actually very difficult to distinguish E) at / about
experimentally ---- an animal that is simply
using landmarks and one that is using a 40. Migraine afflicts ---- thirty million Americans,
cognitive map. ---- females suffering more frequently than
males.
A) over
B) among A) from / to
C) into B) into / for
D) against C) by / next to
E) between D) about / at
E) over / with

35. Mining operations are considered ---- one of ANSWER KEY

the main sources ---- environmental 1 C 9 D 17 C 25 A 33 C
degradation. 2 D 10 D 18 E 26 D 34 E
3 E 11 A 19 B 27 C 35 D
A) by / from 4 D 12 E 20 B 28 C 36 C
B) to / into 5 B 13 B 21 A 29 D 37 A
C) by / about 6 E 14 A 22 C 30 B 38 D
D) as / of 7 A 15 C 23 C 31 C 39 C
E) over / upon 8 E 16 E 24 A 32 B 40 E