Lesson 10 & 11:

Vocabulary List:

Lesson 10: Glow – contract – susceptible – likely – detect – shrink

Lesson 11: Landscape – preservation – policy – wilderness – eventually – realize

critic – suffering – generation

Choose the correct answer:

1. Susceptible: (adj.) vulnerable, easily affected, having a sensitive nature or

feeling, easily influenced or harmed by something
Young people are the most susceptible to advertisements.
Some of these plants are more susceptible to frost damage than others.

2. Detect: (v.) discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of.

The company makes devices to detect carbon monoxide.

3. Likely: (adv.) with considerable certainty; without much doubt, probable

I’ll very likely be at home all day.
Unemployment is likely to go on rising this year.
Barcelona looks likely winners of the Spanish League.
Do remind me because I’m likely to forget.

4. Contract: (v.) shrink, reduce, get smaller

5. Glow: (v.) to give light

The lamp gave out a faint glow,
The glow went out of his voice.

6. Shrink: (v.)(shrink/ shrank/ shrunk) reduce in size

Will this shirt shrink in a wash?
7. Landscape: (n.) an area of land that has a particular appearance.
an expanse of scenery that can be seen in a single view.
We drove through a barren, rocky landscape.
We can expect changes in the political landscape.

8. Wilderness: (n.) a place that is untouched by people

a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition
Without a friend, the world is wilderness.

9. Preservation: (n.) The act of keeping something as it is.

The activity of protecting something from loss or danger
The process that saves organic substances from decay.
The council has placed a preservation order on the building

10.Policy: (n.) a plan of action adopted by an individual or social group

Set of rules agreed upon
A set of rules or actions about what should be done
Chinese people benefit a lot from the open –up policy.

11.Eventually: (adv.) after a long period of time or especially long delay.

12.Generation: (n.)All the people living at the same time or approximately

the same age.
A group of people born around the same time
13.Critic: (n.) 1. A person who is professionally engaged in the analysis and
interpretation of works of art 2. Anyone who expresses a reasoned
judgment of something 3. Someone who frequently finds fault or makes
harsh and unfair judgments.

14.Suffering :( n.) 1. a state of acute pain 2. misery resulting from affliction 3.

psychological suffering 4. feelings of mental or physical pain.
adj. 1. troubled by pain or loss 2. very unhappy; full of misery.
People are still suffering under the yoke of slavery.
 Many of the refugees were suffering badly from thirst.

15.Realize: (v. )1. be fully aware of 2. perceive (an idea or situation) mentally
Every time you come to mind, I realize I'm smiling.
He didn't realize what a gaffe he'd made.

Choose the correct answer:

1. Children are much more (susceptible–critic – suffering – generation)
than adults.
2. We did not (suffering –realize – susceptible – generation) the
magnitude of the problem.
3. Death released him from his (susceptible –critic - realize - suffering).
4. The (suffering - critic – susceptible – generation) classed him with the
best writers of the age.
5. Among particularly (susceptible – suffering – realize – critic) children,
the disease can develop very fast.
6. The new test should enable doctors to (suffer –detect – eventually - -
wilderness) the disease early.
7. Only later did she (realize – detection – suffer – susceptible) her
mistake.
8. People of my (susceptible – critic – generation – suffering) who lived
through World War 2 have vivid memories of confusion and
incompetence.
9. The couple (suffering – susceptible - eventually – detect) wed after an
eighteen year engagement.
10.The (wilderness – suffering – eventually – critic) campsite had its own
peculiar enchantment.
11.Silence in times of (critic – eventually - suffering – wilderness) is the
best.
12.As a (critic – astronomy – realize – susceptible), he is far too subjective.
13.The hijackers (eventually – susceptible – critic – detect) surrendered
themselves to the police
14.People have become indifferent to the (suffering – susceptible – detect
– eventually) of others.
15. He has always been an outspoken (critic – astrology – astronomy –
detect) of the government.
16.Her films had an immeasurable effect on a (generation – critic –
susceptible – suffering) of Americans.
17. Don't (realize–detection – eventually – suffering) too much which will
let you down.
18.The medication should ease the (suffering – susceptible – realize –
eventually).
19.Although the world is full of (suffering – susceptible – realize –
eventually), it is full also of the overcoming of it.
20.Inward (susceptible – suffering – realize – eventually) is the worst of
nemesis.
21.People of my (generation – critic – astronomy -susceptible) think the
same way.
22.I hate to see animals (suffering -susceptible - critic – eventually).
23.Honesty is the best (policy–suffering – detect – realize).
24.She had a healthy (glow – detect – policy – suffering) in her cheeks.
25.Keep trying and you’ll find a job (eventually – policy – detect –
suffering).
26.He felt a (glow – detect – policy – suffering) of pride as people stopped
to admire his garden.
27.We mustn’t (shrink – detect – glow – policy) from our responsibilities.
28.Muscles (shrink – contract – detect – glow) and relax during the
physical activity.
29.The operation had left her (suffering – susceptible – shrink – policy) to
infections.
30.The older (generation - glow – policy – critic) have a different set of
values.
31.The Antarctic is the world’s last great (eventually –wilderness –
susceptible – shrink).
32.We want to expand the business, not (glow - suffer - detect –shrink) it.
33.We are working for the (preservation - generation – susceptible –
glow) of the environment.
34.The police are responsible for the (preservation - glow – susceptible –
shrink) of public order and security.
35.The dentist could (detect – preserve – shrink – glow) no decay in her
teeth.
36.The police prevent and (preserve – detect – shrink – glow) crime.
37.What is the labor’s Party (policy – detect – suffering – glow) on
immigration?
38.I keep (suffering – preserving – detect – glow) these mental lapses.
39.She ranks above any other musician of her (preservation –generation –
policy – suffering).
40.The aim of the (policy - detect – glow – generation) is the preservation
of peace.
41.Our (policy- detect – glow – generation) has been to uphold the law.
42.Your sweater will (shrink – detect – preserve – glow) if you wash it at a
high temperature.
43.The political (wilderness –landscape – generation – preservation) of
the country has changed since unemployment rose.
44.The train is (likely - like – detect – glow) to be late.
45.He is (suffering – preserving – detecting – glowing) from an inflamed
throat.
46. I didn't (realize - preserve – glow – policy) you were so unhappy.
47.If you give up exercise your muscles (shrink – glow – preserve – detect)
and fat increases.
48.There are few known diseases which are not (susceptible – eventually
– likely – glow) to medical treatment.
49.The dogs were trained to (preserve – glow – suffer – detect) the
presence of explosives.
50.Trains fares are (likely – politically – critically – policy) to remain
unchanged.
51.The rising sun casts a golden (glow – preserve – likely – policy) to the
room.
52.It looks (likely – eventual – possible – political) that the peace talks will
fail.
53.The men were (preserving – detecting – susceptible – suffering) from
shell shock.