Unit 4:1 - Words with similar meanings

Complete the sentences with the words in the boxes. Use each word no more than once . There is one word for each set of questions that you do not need.

witness fans viewers audience spectators watchers

1. audience found the final scene of the play, in which Romeo and Juliet both die, intensely moving; there wasn’t a dry eye in
The ________
the house.
2. The third episode of the series featured a blooper in which the microphone is visible in the frame, but the vast majority of the
viewers
__________ didn’t notice.
spectators
3. _______________ at a 1962 World Cup match in Chile between Brazil and England had a surprise when a dog came onto the
pitch to chase the ball.
witness
4. The police want to take a statement from me about the car crash which I was a ____________ to last week.
fans
5. ___________ of American football fans from the Seattle Seahawks set a world record for creating the most noise ever recorded
(136.6 decibels) in a victory over the San Francisco 49ers in 2013.
 opponents rivals opposition competitors enemies

6. Boxer Muhammad Ali usually managed to defeat his __________

opponents within the first few rounds.

7. rivals
Tennis stars Andy Murray and Rafa Nadal have spent many years as ___________ on the court, and as friends off it.
opposition
8. The team tends to vary its tactics from game to game, so that the _____________ teams don’t know what to expect.
9. Two ___________
competitors were disqualified from the race after failing a drugs test.

dominated outplayed won defeated eliminated

defeated
10. In 1997, a computer named Deep Blue _____________ world chess champion Gary Kasparov on its second attempt.
11. Iceland became the smallest country ever to qualify for the World Cup in 2017, but were _______________
eliminated in the group stage
and went home after playing three matches.
dominated the first half of the match, and yet were unable to score a try thanks to South Africa’s formidable
12. New Zealand ____________
defending.
13. It was a great game, but throughout the match, the Montreal Canadians ___________the
outplayed Ottawa Senators and fully deserved
their win at the end of the day.