WORD FORMATION PRACTICE – 06 (KEY)

WORD FORMATION PRACTICE – 06 (KEY)

Part 1. For questions 1-10, complete each sentence using the correct form of the word in
parentheses. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided.
1. I read what I write out loud rather than just _________ it as I write. (VOCAL)
2. My sister suggested buying a(n) ________ bookcase where the pieces came in a flat pack for us
to put together ourselves. (ASSEMBLE)
3. We are all ________, all of the time, mastering levels of formality, adjusting content to context in
speech as well as writing. (DIALECT)
4. Using a digital ________, the time taken for an achene to fall 2m in a tightly closed room was
measured. (CHRONICLE)
5. The fact that a lot of other people demonstrate that they are honest does not mean that any
particular individual is honest and ________. (CORRUPT)
6. As well as being a fear of open spaces, _________ is also a fear of being in a crowd, being alone
in a house and travelling alone. (PHOBIA)
7. Nanotechnology may open the door to smaller, more reliable, and less _________ memory chips
in cell phones, network gear, and other devices. (POWER)
8. Since the bank robbers have hostages, the police chief decided to _________ the order to storm
the building. (MANDATE)
9. Loyalty programs, gift cards, and other _________ aimed at keeping shoppers hooked on a
particular retailer are spreading faster than word of a fabulous bargain in aisle 5. (COME)
10. It is likely that prices will decrease as there is a(n) _________ of 25,000 unsold new houses.
(HANG)
Your answers:
1. subvocalise 2. self-assembly 3. multidialectal 4. chronometer 5. incorruptible
6. agoraphobia 7. power-hungry 8. countermand 9. come-ons 10. overhang

Part 2. For questions 11-20, give the correct form of the word in brackets. Write your answers in
the corresponding numbered boxes below.
Cities have (11. HISTORY) _______ concentrated wealth, but today, with the rise of the new
plutocracy and hitherto unseen levels of inequality, they are becoming sinks for the excess profits of the
privileged few. More than ever, cities are becoming places that favour the wishes of capital over the
needs of large sections of the population.
An extreme example is Dubai, transformed by oil wealth from a sleepy (12. BACK) ______ just
30 years ago to the epitome of blingy architectural ambition today. When Dubai began to boom, the uber-
rich from the four corners of the world wanted in on the action. Today it has the world’s tallest skyscraper,
luxury malls that draw the international shopperati, and even an indoor ski resort complete with a
mountain maintained at freezing temperatures in the midst of a baking desert. Its proliferation of towers
gives it the dubious distinction of having the world’s greatest concentration of ‘vanity space’ – upper
storeys that are too high to let either due to the time penalty involved in reaching them and/or their small
floor space. Of the city’s 3.1 million residents, nearly 90 per cent are (13. PATRIOT) _______, the
majority of them impoverished migrant workers brought in to work on the construction projects. These
instantly (14. DEPORT) _______ non-citizens work in conditions compared to indentured (15. SERVE)
_______, often lacking even the right to visit the lavish spaces they have built.
The traditional form of (16. SPACE) _______ segregation by levels of wealth has long been
condemned by urbanists as destructive to the notion of an open city. But it has begun to harden in all
kinds of ways. With the (17. FULL) _______ embrace of neoliberalism in the 1980s, and its destruction of
public ownership and promotion of cutthroat market ‘solutions’, a juggernaut began to roll. Market forces
started to exert (18. DUE) _______ influence on planning and the notion of public space became
susceptible to the creep of privatization. In cities that ever had it, local authorities began to sell off – and
neglect – social housing. In tandem, ever-increasing financialization of the economy (money making
money) and the use of real estate as an easily tradeable investment led to a situation where housing
began to lose its social value, increasingly becoming a(n) (19. PLAY) _______ for the rich to control.
Worldwide, cities began to undergo building booms of luxury developments, capturing territory to the
exclusion of the seekers arriving at their gates. Transborder investments were invited with open arms,

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spiralling housing prices were taken as a sign of a buoyant property market. Property became a safe
place to park big money, often of dubious origin. None of this was to the benefit of anyone who was not
already wealthy. Indeed, in surveys, residents of cities with the hottest real estate routinely rank
themselves lower in terms of happiness than those of perhaps more (20. LACK) _______ cities where
the price of a roof over one’s head hasn’t gone through it.
(Source: New Internationalist)
Your answers:
11. historically 12. backwater
13. expatriates/expats 14. deportable
15. servitude 16. spatial
17. full-on 18. undue
19. plaything 20. lacklustre

Part 3. For questions 21-30, complete the passage with the appropriate forms from the words
given in the box. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided.

ADEQUATE CLOTHING SEEM OCCUPY PERSPECTIVE

VIRTUE TEACH ART VIEW TRUST

In public Greek life, a man had to make his way at every step through the immediate persuasion
of the spoken word. Whether it be addressing an assembly, a law-court or a more restricted body, his
oratory would be a public affair rather than under the (21) _______ of a quiet committee, without the
support of circulated commentary, and with no (22) _______ of daily reportage to make his own or others‘
views familiar to his hearers. The oratory's immediate effect was all-important; it would be naive to expect
that mere reasonableness or an inherently good case would equate to a satisfactory appeal. Therefore, it
was early realized that persuasion was an art, up to a point (23) _______, and a variety of specific
pedagogy was well established in the second half of the fifth century. When the sophists claimed to teach
their pupils how to succeed in public life, rhetoric was a large part of what they meant, though, to do them
justice, it was not the whole.
Skill naturally bred (24) _______. If a man of good will had need of expression advanced of mere
twaddle, to learn how to expound his contention effectively, the truculent or pugnacious could be taught to
dress their case in (25) _______ guise. It was a standing charge against the sophists that they ‘made the
worse appear the better cause,‘ and it was this immoral lesson which the hero of Aristophanes‘ Clouds
went to learn from, of all people, Socrates. Again, the charge is often made in court that the opponent is
an adroit orator and the jury must be (26) _______ so as not to let him delude them. From the frequency
with which this crops up, it is patent that the accusation of cleverness might damage a man. In Greece,
juries, of course, were familiar with the style, and would recognize the more evident (27) _______, but it
was worth a litigant‘s while to get his speech written for him by an expert. Persuasive oratory was
certainly one of the pressures that would be effective in an Athenian law-court.
A more insidious danger was the inevitable desire to display this art as an art. It is not easy to
define the point at which a legitimate concern with style shades off into (28) _______ with manner at the
expense of matter, but it is easy to perceive that many Greek writers of the fourth and later centuries
passed that danger point. The most influential was Isocrates, who polished for long years his pamphlets,
written in the form of speeches, and taught to many pupils the smooth and easy periods he had
perfected. Isocrates took to the written word in compensation for his (29) _______ in live oratory; the
tough and nervous tones of a Demosthenes were far removed from his, though they, too, were based on
study and practice. The exaltation of (30) _______ did palpable harm. The balance was always delicate,
between style as a vehicle and style as an end in itself.
Your answers:
21. purview 22. backcloth
23. teachable 24. mistrust
25. well-seeming 26. circumspect
27. artifices 28. preoccupation
29. inadequacy 30. virtuosity

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