Everyday Vocabulary: Elections

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Everyday Vocabulary: Elections

ELECTIONS

People sometimes try to __1__ the result of an election weeks before it takes place. Several hundred people are asked which party they prefer, and their answers are used to guess the result of the coming election. This is called a(an) __2__. Meanwhile each party conducts its election __3__ with meetings, speeches, television commercials and party members going from door to door encouraging people to __4__ their party. In Britain everyone over 18 is eligible to __5__. The place where people go to vote in an election is called a __6__ and the day of the election is often known as __7__ day. The voters put their votes in a __8__ box and later they are counted. The __9__ with the most votes is then declared the winner.

- A) vote
- B) elect
- C) predict
- D) support
- A) opinion poll
- B) campaign
- C) paradox
- D) elector
- A) campaign
- B) ballot
- C) commercials
- D) summits
- A) vote
- B) improve
- C) predict
- D) support
- A) vote
- B) elect
- C) predict
- D) support
- A) campaign
- B) ballot box
- C) polling
- D) polling station
- A) vote
- B) election
- C) predict
- D) polling
- A) election
- B) ballot
- C) polling
- D) vote
- A) voter
- B) member
- C) candidate
- D) president

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