General ESL Vocabulary MCQ Test With Answers - Advanced Level Exercise 10

5. Even after listening for an hour and a half to

1. Even more ............... conditions of hygiene became evidence – ............... evidence – of a concerted effort
apparent as the siege tightened. on Iraq's part to delay and deceive the UN weapons
inspectors, the response of France, Russia, and China
A) zealous /ZE-lıs/ was that inspections must continue.
B) zealous /ZE-lıs/
A) affectionate
C) disparaging /dis-PÆ-rıcin/
B) irrefutable /ir-REF-yutıbıl/
D) deplorable /di-PLO:-rıbıl/
C) disparaging
E) deplorable /di-PLO:-rıbıl/
D) spurious
E) malodorous /mæ-LO-dırıs/

2. You mustn't ............... the role of oil prices for the

Russian economy.
6. The saline waters of the Tuzla Kuş Cenneti nearby the
A) predispose city of Izmir provide a ______ for large numbers of
B) hinder flamingos and other migrating water birds.
C) belittle A) dungeon
D) eclipse B) ghetto
E) apprehend C) dormitory
D) gymnasium
E) sanctuary

3. He was himself a former slave who later in life

became a(n) ............... opponent of the slave trade.

A) retrospective 7. The day before the ............... body of the victim was
B) impenetrable /im-PE-nıtribıl/ found in a suitcase near the central station, he had
called his girlfriend and had told her he would be
C) generous catching the 9:15 train.
D) ambiguous /æm-BİG-yuwıs/
E) outspoken A) dismembered /dis-MEM-bırd/
B) intrinsic /in-TRİN-zik/
C) inoccuous /i-N@K-yuıs/
D) desolate /DE-sılit/
On August 25, 1992, the Serbian army began shelling E) ridiculous /ri-DİK-yılıs/
4.
the National Library of Bosnia-Herzegovina in
Sarajevo. Their goal was the eradication of a people
and all evidence of that people's culture and
existence. Within no more than six months, gone was
almost all ______ evidence of over 500 years of 8. Legal experts point out that any move by either side
intercultural/interreligious life in Bosnia. to ............... the treaty would fly in the face of
international law.
A) incongruous
B) pompous A) aggravate
C) lamentable B) acclaim
D) palpable C) abrogate /ÆB-rıgeyt/
E) ostentatious D) surpass /sö-PA:S/
E) disparage /dis-PÆ-ric/

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9. Please, note that articles containing gross ______ and/ 13. The idea that the victors have a perfect right to bring
or indecency will not be approved. the ............... to trial is not new.

A) dereliction A) ambushed /ÆM-buşd/

B) vivaciousness B) pillaged
C) lethargy C) vanquished
D) profanity D) plagiarized
E) clergy E) abominated

10. Extreme depression and extreme ______ caused by 14. I would like to urge the traffic police or the
the stigma associated with HIV positive results, even department concerned with the traffic signs and rules
though false, may reduce immunity drastically and to ensure that all signs on the road are ............... and
cause AIDS and early death in the affected persons. that they are functional.

A) fraudulence A) malevolent
B) dejection B) conspicuous /kıns-PİK-yuwıs/
C) indolence C) appalling /ı-P@-liN/
D) discretion D) contemptible /kın-TEMPT-ibıl/
E) pomposity E) diminutive /di-MİN-yıtiv/

11. A(n) ______ reason is the apparent, exhibited, 15. Speaking of sibling relationships, one study in 1998
declared, avowed or professed reason and the found that 95 per cent of the participants had either
concept is normally used to denote that it is not, in intimate, loyal, and ______ relationships, while the
fact, the real or actual reason, motive or aim. remaining 5 per cent were apathetic.

A) random A) congenital
B) laconic B) incongruous
C) miraculous C) obligatory
D) ostensible D) congenial
E) epicurean E) venomous

12. All of these ______ and aggressive speeches made by 16. Too busy enjoying the colourful life of a handsome
Bush, Rumsfeld and Powell provide excellent young officer, he remained ............... to politics
examples of US sabre-rattling -- a witness to their through the 1980s and '90s.
intention to spread the fight to other countries.
A) aloof /ı-LU:F/
A) submissive B) hostile
B) belligerent C) bigoted /Bİ-gıtid/
C) taciturn D) inimical /i-Nİ-mikıl/
D) prudent E) pious /PA:-yıs/
E) ambidexterous

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17. Economic globalization will face ______ hindrances

during the course of deregulation, privatization and
direct foreign investment -- unless the legislative
bodies and juridical structures lend their support to it 19. Based on 25 years of ______ research, this method
in every nation-state. has proven to be extremely effective in helping
young children learn to resolve interpersonal
A) self-revelatory problems and prevent antisocial behaviours.
B) fragrant
A) aberrant
C) dilapidated
B) meticulous
D) expository
C) calamitious
E) formidable
D) overbearing
E) courteous

18. Other changes that have impacted the working world

are an ............... stream of technological
advancements and the ensuing enhancements, 20. It is my ______ that love, friendship, hope, kindness,
steady employee turnover and a business world that responsibility, knowledge are eternal, and so there
not only moves fast forward but is in constant flux as probably will be someday an interdisciplinary field of
well. study, comprising science, humanities, philosophy,
sociology, anthropology, history, and all.
A) busybodyish
A) replenishment
B) sublime /sıb-LAYM/
B) aptitude
C) vagrant
C) complacency
D) incessant /in-SE-sınt/
D) endorsement
E) reverent /RE-vırınt/
E) conjecture

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Answer Key:

1: D 11: D
2: C 12: B
3: E 13: C
4: D 14: B
5: B 15: D
6: E 16: A
7: A 17: E
8: C 18: D
9: D 19: B
10: B 20: E

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