Advanced Vocabulary Test 1 - ESL Vocabulary Exercises

PRELIMINARY "TEST-YOURSELF" STUDY Please do not click

the answer button before you have thoroughly studied the 5. Police rescued the two minors who were .......... by
question & deliberated on your own choice!! their former nanny last week.

A) adulated
1. He admits ............... that he is a bit of a womanizer. B) adorned
A) plumply C) abashed
B) usurpingly D) augmented
C) genealogically E) abducted
D) unabashedly
E) fastidiously

6. I find it truly ............... that scientific knowledge and

some of our best human resources should be wasted
on researching and developing new ways to maim
2. The farmers are obviously eager to adopt any means and kill one another.
to ............... the salinity levels back down to
acceptable levels. A) augustan
B) admirable
A) crab
C) avaricious
B) sprout
D) avant garde
C) abate
E) abominable
D) contaminate
E) counterfeit

7. A civilized man respects all life and ............... cruelty

to animals.
3. How or when my great rage began to abate I cannot
say. Somehow it began to wane, and it waned quite A) appeases
rapidly. I ............... my composure within a few B) abhors
minutes.
C) atones for
A) appealed D) assimilates
B) indulged E) attests
C) fidgeted
D) regained
E) cured
8. Spherical ............... is an optical effect occurring
when the oblique rays entering a lens are focused in
a different location than the central rays.

4. Due to his general frail health, the king may soon A) abomination
.......... the throne in favour of his son. B) abduction
A) abdicate C) abstraction
B) advocate D) aberration
C) agitate E) abrogation
D) abbreviate
E) assume

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9. To ............... something is to renounce it or abstain 13. About three kilometers from Mordoğan, the road
from it, with the implication that this is done publicly. takes an ............... left hand turn and goes down into
a valley teeming with lush olive trees.
A) simulate
B) astound A) lascivious
C) augment B) abrupt
D) abjure C) improper
E) condone D) abstruse
E) interminable

10. Organic chemistry, as a science, I truly esteem and

admire; but memorising all those lengthy formulas I 14. ARGUMENT: " ............... is the most effective
really ............... and abhor. solution to unwanted pregnancy and sexual disease."
COUNTER-ARGUMENT: "In which case, I'd rather
A) abominate choose death."
B) adulate
A) Over-indulgence
C) adorn
B) Strict absorption
D) accost
C) Complete abstinence
E) adjourn
D) Horrid abhorrence
E) Abrupt aberration

11. Ancient literature ............... prose and poetry

concerned with homosexual love. They are
everywhere. 15. No one in the world could solve such an abstruse
 problem. Abstruse means ............... .
A) teams with
B) abounds in A) complex and difficult to understand
C) commemorates B) simple and easy for mathematicians
D) is bereft of C) lucid enough for the thoughtful
E) betrays D) absurd in the highest degree possible
E) laggard and leisurely

12. Following a heated debate in the Parliament, the

defense treaty signed last year was finally ratified. 16. Just point a ............... in the right direction, will you?
To ratify means to ............... . All I am asking for is a little help in getting this
program started.
A) appease
B) abrogate A) vagrant
C) give formal sanction to B) courier
D) annul C) pedestrian
E) send to the Constitutional Court D) novice
E) messenger

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17. Friedrich Engels himself was a capitalist who later in 21. The sanctions are to continue until Israel ...............
life became a(n) ............... opponent of capitalism. the UN resolutions, one of which calls for a peaceful
settlement in Palestine.
A) retrospective
B) impenetrable A) aggravates
C) generous B) abides by
D) ambiguous C) violates
E) outspoken D) proclaims
E) pays lip service to

18. Even though I was quickly sinking into a(n) ...............

of despair, something in me was not ready to give 22. At the age of 64, he was now at the ............... of his
up. career as an influential and outspoken member of
parliament.
A) glee
B) mirth A) abyss
C) euphoria B) nadir
D) hilarity C) acme
E) abyss D) ebb
E) nether

19. Berbat Süleyman, one of the most bloodthirsty

hoodlums in the underworld, was unforgiving toward 23. He now acquiesced in every directive he received
his adversaries. He did not hesitate to order the from his boss, just as he once acquiesced to all his
murder of Yedibela Yusuf, his arch ............... . parents' wishes. Acquiesce means: ---------------- .

A) bambino A) comply with

B) accomplice B) balk at
C) foe C) disagree with
D) cherub D) dissent from
E) confederate E) dissuade from

20. A young man was ............... by some ruffians on a 24. I think one would be justified in saying that today we
lonely street. "Aslan mı, Sarı Kanarya mı?" he was live in an acquisitive society. Acquisitive means:
queried in a threatening manner. Not knowing which ---------------- .
group had stopped him, the young man cleverly
replied, "Kartal" -- and received a few knuckle A) greedy, covetous and materialistic
sandwiches anyway... B) technologically developed but with low morale
A) whimpered C) with humane and charitable feelings in the fore
B) giggled D) incredibly altruistic -- utterly and thoroughly
C) shrieked E) as self-denying and self-sacrificing as can be
D) accosted
E) blubbered

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25. Some say kımız has a ---------------- aftertaste. It 28. Collaborative divorce uses negotiation and
seems that they find it somewhat "acrid". Needless cooperation to achieve a settlement with minimal 
to say, I quite disagree with them. acrimony between the parties involved. Acrimony 
means: ............... .
A) bitter and sourish
B) deliciously savoury A) civility
C) rotten and putrid B) bitterness
D) exquisitely palatable C) decency
E) sweet and sour D) deference
E) urbanity

26. Animal ............... is the agricultural practice of

breeding and raising livestock. 29. His business acumen was such that with the passing
of the years he rose to be a director of the company.
A) husbandry Acumen means: ............... .
B) heraldry
A) oblivion
C) wifery
B) ineptness
D) protection
C) obtuseness
E) manufacturing
D) astuteness
E) naïveté

27. The boss flew into a rage at the janitor's stupidity and
it took a lot of tact to ............... him.
30. According to an old adage in medicine, “if you don’t
A) lure look for it, you will never diagnose it.” Adage means:
B) soothe  ............... .
C) brace A) neophyte
D) chafe B) maxim
E) nudge C) syllogism
D) paradox
E) shibboleth

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Answer Key:

1: D 16: D
2: C 17: E
3: D 18: E
4: A 19: C
5: E 20: D
6: E 21: B
7: B 22: C
8: D 23: A
9: D 24: A
10: A 25: A
11: B 26: A
12: C 27: B
13: B 28: B
14: C 29: D
15: A 30: B

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