Advanced Vocabulary Test 2 - ESL Vocabulary Exercises
1. We are seeking client management personnel who 7. The visitors pretended that they had not noticed the
are truly ............... in oral and written insult, but it was a(n) ............... that was not likely
communications. ever to be forgotten or forgiven.
A) unyielding A) affront
B) avaricious B) adultery
C) adept C) feat
D) vulnerable D) geek
E) maladroit E) appeasement
2. Is there any objection to my ............... this meeting 8. ................... : Action undertaken to increase one's
here and now? own power and influence or to draw attention to
one's own importance.
A) assimilating
B) improvising A) Self-aggrandisement
C) adjourning B) Self-diminishment
D) facilitating C) Self-sufficiency
E) abstracting D) Self-aggravation
E) Self-impression
3. A parliamentary committee severely ............... the
Minister last year for accepting personal gifts from 9. Please, please don't aggravate the situation! 'Tis
foreign companies. already bad enough!
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A) abominated Aggravate here means ______.
B) approved of
A) appease
C) admonished
B) tranquilize
D) detached
C) palliate
E) decelerated
D) worsen
4. Our new men are particularly adroit in handling this
E) extenuate
type of machinery.
10. The security forces were instructed to step in and
Adroit means: ______. disperse any aggregation which they deemed ill-
intentioned.
A) adamant
B) vulnerable
Aggregation means ______.
C) dexterous A) enactment
D) awkward B) impoverishment
E) clumsy C) gathering
5. Can you imagine a film star not craving for public D) abrogation
adulation?
E) provocation
Adulation means: ______. 11. Colonel Cesurhan tried to ............... his soldiers to
stand fast in the face of overwhelming odds.
A) flattery
B) pliability A) mitigate
C) denunciation B) palliate
D) stigmatization C) obliterate
E) detachment D) juxtapose
E) exhort
6. The ............... of electronic mail made it possible to
share information quickly and more effectively. 12. Apparently, the boy felt no ............... about telling on
his friends.
A) impromptu
B) advent A) qualms
C) prelude B) astuteness
D) bluntness C) lampoon
E) felicity D) façade
E) juxtaposition
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Advanced Vocabulary Test 2 - ESL Vocabulary Exercises
13. We may never know what really might be taking 19. The colonel warned his men that he expected his
place in the ............... depths of the schizophrenic orders be carried out with zeal and swiftness by
mind. all concerned.
A) obliterated With zeal and swiftness means with ______.
B) impenetrable
A) lethargy
C) ribald
B) apathy
D) ingratiating
C) blunder
E) opulent
D) hibernation
14. Being mentally alert or quick: That is what having "an
E) alacrity
............... mind" means.
20. All through the rest of the summer, small enemy
A) agile units kept ............... the upland villages.
B) sluggish
A) tillaging
C) inert
B) refurbishing
D) lethargic
C) pillaging
E) inept
D) repudiating
15. By the time they got on the plane he was ...............
E) brandishing
beyond control and his friends were constrained to
tell him quite openly to pull himself together. 21. Many TV programs are in fact commercials ...............
as good advice on this, that or the other aspect of
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A) lulled our lives.
B) placated
A) pleading
C) soothed
B) acquiring
D) agitated
C) masquerading
E) subdued
D) assigning
16. The ............... effects of alcohol on the liver have long
E) miscalculating
been known by medical authorities.
22. Mr. İzbul's ............... criticism of the management's
A) pernicious mishandling of the funds drew enthusiastic support
from the shareholders.
B) alleviating
C) jubilant A) trenchant
D) putative B) odious
E) hermetic C) lethargic
17. To me, the recording and release of Gencebay's D) repugnant
album "Give Me a Consolation" back in the 70s
E) obnoxious
has been the ______ of his brilliant musical career.
23. The book is on such a(n) ............... subject that I am
A) abyss certain no one understands what it's all about.
B) nadir
A) palpable
C) apex
B) esoteric
D) ebb
C) ostensible
E) nether
D) reprehensible
18. My uncle's tastes in music are rather ______. He keeps
E) auspicious
buying all sorts of classical music, jazz, rock-and-roll,
and hip-hop CDs.
A) histrionic
B) ubiquitous
C) pejorative
D) eclectic
E) officious
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Advanced Vocabulary Test 2 - ESL Vocabulary Exercises
24. The townspeople were worried about the new dam; 28. The Pope's visit to Turkland seems to have abated
but their fears were ................... by the authorities some of the anger caused by his ............... remarks
who reassured them that even an earthquake of about Islam some time ago.
more than 9.5 on Richter scale could cause it no
harm. A) agonized
B) discreet
A) palpated
C) palpable
B) aggravated
D) disparaging
C) prevaricated
E) pensive
D) tantalized
29. Islam does not condemn the allurement between
E) allayed
the two sexes. However, it sees it fit to forbid its
25. Trouble had long been ............... between the rival consummation until proper unification within the
gangs in the neighbourhood before the final framework of marriage.
confrontation of last Saturday.
Allurement means ______.
A) curtailing
B) mortifying A) aversion
C) brewing B) allusion
D) mortgaging C) attraction
E) confounding D) estrangement
E) confrontation
26. I suspect that these plants aren't ............... to the
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Aegean region. At least, I've never seen them before. 30. A group of youths stood momentarily, surveyed the
old man with disparaging eyes, made some rude
A) indigenous allusions to his bare feet, and then marched off
giggling to themselves.
B) ingenuous
C) egregious Allusion means ______.
D) pejorative
E) intolerable A) insane flattery
27. Reporters are advised to refrain from using clichés or B) lethal ailment
............... terms when describing individuals who C) immature illusion
are overweight or obese. D) indirect reference
E) crude ointment
A) pensive
B) assimilating
C) pejorative
D) decelerating
E) saturated
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Advanced Vocabulary Test 2 - ESL Vocabulary Exercises
Answer Key:
1: C 16: A
2: C 17: C
3: C 18: D
4: C 19: E
5: A 20: C
6: B 21: C
7: A 22: A
8: A 23: B
9: D 24: E
10: C 25: C
11: E 26: A
12: A 27: C
13: B 28: D
14: A 29: C
15: D 30: D
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