WORD FORM 13

1. Lisa asked someone the way to the centre of town, and was pointed _________________ down the sharp slope of a
hill where almost immediately she came upon a bus stop. (WORD)
2. The man, who had lost his memory during the war, was astounded to find he knew his way around a sleepy,
_________________ village. It emerged that it was the village he had been born in. (SEPIA)
3. ‘I have fallen into the usual traps of thinking that IQ was the be-all and end-all, that being academic was better than
being artistic and that art and music were _________________ gifts,’ admits Buzan, 58. (TEACH)
4. This book is a compact history of my _________________.’ (REVEAL)
5. Much as my heart bleeds for the victims of these tabloid assault, I am not really in favor of the kind of
_________________ legislation it would take to end this kind of publishing. (CENSOR)
6. I’d like to head up a _________________ of my own to investigate the private lives of the tabloid journalists and
editors who write/ invent this stuff. (PACK)
7. The problem is more _________________. (SEAT)
8. In the film world there is generally no difference in budget or technology between children’s or adult films - the aim is
to produce a _________________ winner and an appetite for film-going. (FIRE)
9. During a brief and _________________ ascent, the band had released three albums and under Ferry’s close artistic
guidance, refashioned the rock ’n roll experience as a weirdly costumes trip around some _________________
archive. (METE - FUTURE)
10. Loosening the iron grip of conformist rock behavior was precisely Ferry’s point, and he had more than enough musical
wit and wisdom to back up these _________________ postures. (LAND)

WORD FORM 14
1. The principle agent in this imperious dissolution of time and genre was Ferry’s inimitable vocal style, which assumed
complete mastery over anything it got near, banishing the ghosts of the originals. In pop terms, _________________
started here. (MODERN)
2. Such standards are rigorously enforced. But there is another way of looking at it. _________________ and biotech
companies carry out trials because they hope eventually to make substantial profits from the results. The researchers
also benefit financially and through the advancement of their careers. Meanwhile, the participants in a trial barely
benefit at all. Indeed, they could be said to be exploited in the interests of industry and _________________.
(PHARMACY - MEDICINE)
3. Now compare the trial mentioned above with a real example in which a patient is invited to take part in a study into
genetic _________________ to glaucoma, a disease of the eye which can cause a person to gradually lose their
sight. (DISPOSE)
4. At the interview, the employer tells him the job involves working on high _________________ and that the risk of
dying on the site if between 1 in 2000 and 1 in 5000 higher per year than working at ground level. (FOLD)
5. There appears nothing _________________ in their decisions, yet participants in medical trials are not even allowed
to make the choice. (OBJECT)
6. The presence of asbestos was not surprising: It was commonly used as an ingredient in insulating and
_________________ materials until it was banned beginning in the 1970s. (PROOF)
7. People who have been evacuated from apartments and businesses in the area should under no circumstances return
until the city has conducted more testing for asbestos and determined whether _________________ is needed.
(REMEDY)
8. Steam also sterilizes hospital equipment, presses clothes, and cleans restaurant dishes and _________________.
(CUT)

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9. The film tours the East 14th Street Consolidated Edison cogeneration plant, where 55 percent of the city’s steam is
produced, and looks at the _________________ of some of New York’s most recent buildings to see how steam is
incorporated into modern urban planning and design. (BELLY)
10. Objectively speaking, a film’s relationship to a novel is as a _________________ sketch to an oil painting, and no
writer I know would actually agree that “the film” is the ultimate aspiration. (COAL)

WORD FORM 15
1. Certainly, any literary novelist who deliberately tried to write something tailor-made to film-makers would fail to
produce a good book, because the fact is that books are only _________________ by accident. (FILM)
2. My theory is that film-makers are _________________ on a bit of territorial marking, and each time one can only hope
that they have sufficient genius to do it with flair. (BENT)
3. The issue is that much more pressing in emerging economies, whose _________________ legal systems and poor
enforcement offer little assurance to investors. (BARE)
4. Again the idea that some people are inherently trusting while others are not, appears _________________. (FOUND)
5. For one, trust could serve as a signal of _________________, either to secure initial co-operation or to ensure the
success of a long-term relationship. (good)
6. Sometimes she would move them: a goblet or a _________________. (STOOL)
7. Amid a crescendo of shrieks the bigger chimpanzee emerged, swaggering like a triumphant _________________ out
of the western saloon. (GUN)
8. A Dutch _________________, Frans de Waal has decades of experience with the behavior of our nearest relations in
captivity. (primatology)
9. Targeted at the educated _________________, the three themes of The Ape and The Sushi Master are how we see
other animals, the nature of culture and how we see ourselves. (PERSON)
10. Congo enjoyed covering a shape that he had just produced with “savage” _________________; the best examples of
circles produced by him were saved by removing the paper before he had completely finished. (BRUSH)

WORD FORM 16
1. We feel good when we win an award or make a new friend; bad when we have to face one of life’s inevitable
_________________. (BACK)
2. Scientists have tried for years to identify a link between contentment and marital status, _________________
position, professional success and other factors. (ECONOMY)
3. The _________________ of those we live with is another vital factor. (MEAN)
4. While the individual’s sense of well-being might be 90 percent predetermined, people still have substantial
_________________ to control their emotions. (LEE)
5. Images of the so-called “new economy”, that much talked about product of the “age of information” are of complexity
and hubbub. (HUB)
6. That’s breathtaking, but also a little frightening. And _________________ lies a paradox: the very knowledge that we
acquire about the world increasingly allows us to change it, and in changing it, we seem peculiarly adept at making it
incomprehensible again. (IN)
7. If the hitch-hikers are American, I usually stop for them. One can generally tell. They try harder for their lifts, holding
up _________________ destination signs and offering ingratiating smiles. (LETTER)
8. The _________________ remains, however, of what people should do with the 8,459 million 1p and 5,102 million 2p
coins which, according to the Royal Mint, the body which controls Britain’s currency, are out there somewhere,
festering in jars and boxes or weighing down the darkest depths of our pockets and handbags. (DRUM)
9. “OH, I saw _________________ in a shop fiddling with his change.” And so in a way you can’t win. (SO)
10. “The other side of Eden” has the sense of _________________ all that experience and knowledge. (STILL)
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