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Many poets have ________ the beauties of the countryside.
- A) applauded
- B) enthused
- C) enamored
- D) appealed
- E) extolled
When the student graduated, he got his ________.
- A) paper
- B) degree
- C) license
- D) pension
- E) bachelor
She didn't ________ doing the washing up, as she hadn't wanted to go out anyway.
- A) object
- B) care
- C) matter
- D) care for
- E) mind
The tremor in his voice ________ his nervousness.
- A) affirmed
- B) pronounced
- C) disguised
- D) represented
- E) revealed
Although I tried to concentrate on the lectures, I was ________ by the noise from the next room.
- A) dissuaded
- B) averted
- C) repressed
- D) distracted
- E) interfered
I ________ what her name is; I'm sure I know her face.
- A) remember
- B) wonder
- C) guess
- D) suspect
- E) suppose
'I ________ that one', said the tourist, pointing for the benefit of the uncomprehending shopkeeper.
- A) want
- B) wish
- C) take
- D) desire
- E) become
I do not ________ to be clever but I am not stupid.
- A) permit
- B) classify
- C) confess
- D) claim
- E) compare
After the Cabinet reshuffle, the Minister wasn't very happy at his new ________.
- A) job
- B) post
- C) work
- D) shift
- E) place
Children under the age of 16 are not ________ to enter for the competition.
- A) enabled
- B) empowered
- C) capable
- D) eligible
- E) permissible
I was so ________ in my book that I didn't hear the doorbell ring.
- A) settled
- B) concentrated
- C) absorbed
- D) engaged
- E) occupied
Motorists _____ of speeding may be banned from driving for a year.
- A) convicted
- B) arrested
- C) charged
- D) judged
- E) condemned
In the medical profession, men ________ women by five to one.
- A) increase
- B) outnumber
- C) supersede
- D) overcome
- E) outclass
He has told us so many lies that we can no longer place any ________ on what he says.
- A) conviction
- B) reliance
- C) reputation
- D) credibility
- E) regard
Pools of water lay trapped among the rocks as the tide ________.
- A) removed
- B) refilled
- C) returned
- D) receded
- E) retired
He bought that house, ________ that he would inherit money under his uncle's will.
- A) speculating
- B) considering
- C) assuming
- D) estimating
- E) allowing
A ________ change in policy is needed if relations are ever to improve.
- A) severe
- B) violent
- C) drastic
- D) strict
- E) wide
He wrote the text book in ________ with his brother.
- A) harmony
- B) collaboration
- C) unison
- D) connection
- E) communion
His country cottage ________ the amenities of his London flat.
- A) missed
- B) overlooked
- C) neglected
- D) ignored
- E) lacked
The victory was ________ annually by a ten-gun salute.
- A) memorized
- B) commemorated
- C) reminded
- D) recapitulated
- E) remembered
He ________ the figures carefully before making any comment.
- A) estimated
- B) scrutinized
- C) watched
- D) remarked
- E) visualized
He couldn't explain the problem well, as he had only a ________ knowledge of the subject.
- A) profound
- B) primary
- C) rudimentary
- D) fundamental
- E) superfluous
His account must be true, because the evidence he gave ________ that of two other witnesses.
- A) collaborates
- B) consists
- C) coincides
- D) condones
- E) corroborates
We must hear the ________ of the last meeting before we proceed.
- A) minutes
- B) protocol
- C) reportage
- D) agenda
- E) items
Many road accidents occur because motorists cannot ________ the speed of approaching vehicles.
- A) conclude
- B) count
- C) gauge
- D) value
- E) number
The rainbow ______ as the sun came fully out from behind the clouds.
- A) dissolved
- B) removed
- C) dispersed
- D) retired
- E) disappeared
The boy, wanting to be independent, _____ his father's offer of help.
- A) turned away
- B) turned from
- C) turned down
- D) turned against
- E) turned up
It is not profitable to provide bus services in districts where the population is widely ________.
- A) scattered
- B) dismissed
- C) separated
- D) spaced
- E) divided
There is a ________ of a thousand pounds offered for the capture of the murderer.
- A) reward
- B) prize
- C) price
- D) grant
- E) credit
They always kept on good ________ with their next-door neighbors for the children's sake.
- A) friendship
- B) relations
- C) intentions
- D) terms
- E) will
She had clearly no ________ of doing any work, although she was very well paid.
- A) desire
- B) ambition
- C) willingness
- D) intention
- E) meaning
The car salesman took the customer for a drive in the new model in order to ________ its improved features.
- A) advocate
- B) demonstrate
- C) exhibit
- D) reveal
- E) expound
The actual ________ by which coal Is extracted is well worth watching.
- A) conduct
- B) process
- C) procession
- D) pattern
- E) fashion
If we ______ the plan you suggest, we are more likely to be successful.
- A) decide
- B) elect
- C) command
- D) vote
- E) adopt
The child was ________ for getting his shoes and socks wet.
- A) corrected
- B) remonstrated
- C) suffered
- D) scolded
- E) complained
Certainly man must ________ the future, and find ways of providing for his needs.
- A) look to
- B) look up
- C) look after
- D) look for
- E) look on
He took the day off work to ________ his aunt's funeral.
- A) accompany
- B) regard
- C) assist
- D) attend
- E) follow
His energetic efforts met with only ________ success.
- A) particular
- B) proportionate
- C) partial
- D) entire
- E) complete
My rifle was not ________, so I did not hit anything.
- A) from the best
- B) for the better
- C) of the best
- D) for the best
- E) of the better
Any student who ________ his homework is unlikely to pass his examination.
- A) reduces
- B) neglects
- C) practices
- D) denies
- E) offends

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