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This village is only ________ by river.
- A) attainable
- B) available
- C) accessible
- D) obtainable
- E) achievable
The man's face was ________ from his infected tooth.
- A) bulging
- B) swollen
- C) dilated
- D) expanded
- E) distended
As my exam is next week, I'll take advantage of the day off to ________ on some reading.
- A) catch up
- B) clear up
- C) hurry up
- D) makeup
- E) pick up
Many local authorities realize the need to make ________ for elderly people in their housing programs.
- A) assistance
- B) conditions
- C) admittance
- D) provision
- E) rooms
The curator of the Museum was most ________ and let me actually examine the ancient manuscript.
- A) favorable
- B) gratifying
- C) obliging
- D) pleasing
- E) promising
For parents, one of the problems ________ by rising prices is the continual demand for more pocket money.
- A) given
- B) posed
- C) pressing
- D) provided
- E) forced
After speaking for two hours, the lecturer found he could scarcely talk, as he had become ________.
- A) hoarse
- B) dumb
- C) inarticulate
- D) speechless
- E) tongue-tied
There is pressure on the British government to ________ the-number of immigrants permitted to settle in the U.K.
- A) confine
- B) depress
- C) decrease
- D) restrain
- E) limit
In recent years there has been a ______ increase in the cost of living.
- A) powerful
- B) ponderous
- C) wide
- D) significant
- E) violent
The drunken couple did nothing to keep the flat clean and tidy and lived in the utmost ________.
- A) pollution
- B) decay
- C) corruption
- D) contamination
- E) squalor
She was extremely lucky when her great-uncle died, she ________ a fortune.
- A) came by
- B) came about
- C) came into
- D) came through
- E) came over
The accused man was able to prove his innocence at the trial and was ________.
- A) forgiven
- B) pardoned
- C) excused
- D) acquitted
- E) absolved
A good boss always ________ responsibility to his assistants.
- A) relegates
- B) delegates
- C) removes
- D) consigns
- E) refers
Although nobody ________ his presence, Mr. Smith knew he had been recognized.
- A) acknowledged
- B) admitted
- C) assented
- D) attributed
- E) requited
He tries to _____ himself with everyone by paying them compliments.
- A) gratify
- B) please
- C) ingratiate
- D) commend
- E) placate
He was ________ from the competition because he had not compiled with the rules.
- A) banished
- B) forbidden
- C) outlawed
- D) disqualified
- E) precluded
He thanked me _______, too much I thought for the little I had done.
- A) significantly
- B) profusely
- C) prolifically
- D) luxuriantly
- E) sumptuously
The police managed to ________ down the owner of the car.
- A) trace
- B) track
- C) catch
- D) search
- E) pursue
The party's reduced vote was ______ of lack of support for its policies.
- A) indicative
- B) confirming
- C) positive
- D) revealing
- E) evident
Although most of the rooms are small, the hall is ________.
- A) extending
- B) extended
- C) spacious
- D) expansive
- E) abundant
Your latest project has little ________ of success.
- A) prediction
- B) outlook
- C) preview
- D) prospect
- E) forecast
My enquiries did not ________ any information of value.
- A) extort
- B) elicit
- C) arouse
- D) affect
- E) induce
The professor's wife was in the kitchen preparing a salad and ________ cold meal into neat, thin pieces.
- A) sawing
- B) slitting
- C) slicing
- D) sandwiching
- E) slashing
The advantage of the new bridge will be the way it ________ the towns on the opposite banks of the river.
- A) attaches
- B) connects
- C) communicates
- D) spans
- E) merges
Charles was not sure which profession to enter, but finally ________ for the Law.
- A) chose
- B) opted
- C) selected
- D) accepted
- E) preferred
The police _____ their attention to the events that led up to the accident.
- A) confirmed
- B) contained
- C) conserved
- D) confined
- E) completed
The large crowds lingering in the streets were quickly ________ by heavy rain.
- A) removed
- B) dislocated
- C) deposed
- D) detached
- E) dispersed
We covered a wide ________ of topics in the interview.
- A) fashion
- B) extent
- C) collection
- D) number
- E) range
Looked at from your ________, the position is intolerable.
- A) attitude
- B) state
- C) standpoint
- D) level
- E) opinion
Although your offer for the house is £200 below the asking ________, they'll probably accept for the sake of a quick sale.
- A) cost
- B) value
- C) price
- D) limit
- E) amount
The garden had been badly neglected and was completely ________ with weeds.
- A) overgrown
- B) suffocated
- C) enclosed
- D) coated
- E) overlaid
By the end of the day the flood water which had covered most of the town had ________.
- A) receded
- B) reversed
- C) replaced
- D) retired
- E) returned
The police arrested the wrong man mainly because they ________ the names they had been given by the witness.
- A) confused
- B) perplexed
- C) puzzled
- D) bewildered
- E) merged
Being already a graduate from another university, he was ________ from the entrance examination.
- A) exempted
- B) excluded
- C) prohibited
- D) precluded
- E) deferred
Digging the garden is a very ________ task.
- A) industrious
- B) manual
- C) laborious
- D) exerting
- E) conscientious
Hopes of finding the missing climbers are now beginning to ________.
- A) reduce
- B) fade
- C) dim
- D) faint
- E) shrink
The Minister accused the farmers of ________ the potato shortage in order to force prices up.
- A) depleting
- B) expecting
- C) exploiting
- D) misapplying
- E) misappropriating
The stories about his wealth are quite ________; he is not particularly well off.
- A) unprovoked
- B) incredulous
- C) unfounded
- D) irrational
- E) undeserving
I don't really know how to ________ the problem.
- A) tackle
- B) cope
- C) set in
- D) raw
- E) efface
He had deceived a great many people but she _______ him at once.
- A) saw into
- B) saw round
- C) saw through
- D) looked through
- E) looked into

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