500 word formation exercises for Advanced

500 word formation exercises

1. Many people often make a ________ between London and New York. COMPARE

2. This book ________ as a series of lectures about shipwrecks, which were given two ORIGIN

decades ago.

3. There are power stations across Europe that use the ________ rise and fall of the ocean DAY

tides.

4. If you weren't so ________ of Ben, he'd be happier to spend time with you. CRITIC

5. Don't you find it ________ how Jeremy always comes to work looking so untidy? INTRIGUE

6. Doctors say a glass of warm milk before bedtime can result in a more ________ night's REST

sleep.

7. Tim-Berners Lee has received many awards as the ________ of the world wide web. INVENT

8. On the final day, we visited the ________ Victoria Falls and then flew home. MAJESTY

9. The book, like the movie, tracks the anxiety and ________ pains of a teenager in 1970s GROW

Germany.

10. This wine has a very fruity flavour to it and a ________ after-taste. I really like it. PLEASE

11. I've lost all ________ for this concert, I'm finding it boring. Can we go? ENTHUSE

12. The opening of this new restaurant should satisfy the ________ of local Indonesian food SOPHISTICATED

fans.

13. You don't respond well to positive ________, which is only made to help you. CRITIC

14. ________ as it may seem, mammoths were alive only five thousand years ago. CREDIBLE

15. Large spiders, ________ from South East Asia, are now being seen in the local countryside. ORIGIN

16. Collecting garden gnomes might seem an unusual ________, but many people do it. ACTIVE

17. Professor Watkins wasn't only an ________ to me, but to thousands of others lucky INSPIRE

enough to have met him.

18. For someone so young, Carl is a very literate and ________ young man. ELOQUENCE