METU/SFL Spring 2024

DBE
VHO 1
LOWER-INTERMEDIATE GROUP
(Answer Key)
PRACTICE 2.
Match the words in each set with their synonyms. There are two extra words in each set.
Set 1
1. TEMPT e a. force
2. CONTRADICT d b. correctness
3. COMPENSATE f c. essentially
4. TRICKY g d. disprove
5. ACCURACY b e. entice
6. CONSTRAIN a f. refund
7. TRADITIONALLY i g. difficult
8. MARGINAL h h. unimportant
i. customarily
j. expertise

Set 2
1. CONSENT b a. acceptance
2. CIRCULATE f b. agree
3. ADMISSION a c. varied
4. DOMINATION h d. facilitate
5. CONFINE e e. limit
6. DIVERSE c f. publicize
7. ELEVATE j g. inhibit
8. GROSS i h. control
i. extreme
j. raise

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PRACTICE 2.
1. ENROLL a. nourishment; good food value (goodness)
a. absorb b. something that is easy to recognize or identify
b. display (marker)
c. approach c. a medicine or treatment that heals a person
d. jump d. the spirit of love of your country (nationalism)
e. join e. the specific area of your field (specialty)

2. AVAILABILITY 7. BROADLY
a. being present and able to be used a. effectively
b. making a statement about a group from limited b. essentially
data (generalization) c. continually
c. the distance between the opposite edges of a d. rapidly
thing (thickness) e. largely
d. changing to a new form; thing that is changed
(adaptation) 8. DISTURBANCE
e. explanation or discussion of a written work or a. a change to make something right (correction)
event (commentary) b. the act of discovering something or solving a
crime (detection)
3. INTENSITY c. the interruption of a peaceful condition
a. growth d. an order from an authority (directive)
b. performance e. the idea that all people have the same rights
c. concentration (equality)
d. purpose
e.quality 9. CHARACTERIZATION
a. distribution
4. CONSCIOUSNESS b. association
a. knowledge gained from experience in life c. consideration
(wisdom) d. description
b. the state of being aware of one’s e. interaction
surroundings
c. the act of taking responsibility for an error 10. INCREDIBLE
(admission) a. not likely to change (definite)
d. increase in the speed or rate of something b. full of noise; loud (noisy)
(acceleration) c. having importance (meaningful)
e. the power to cause a significant change d. not messy; clean and orderly (neat)
(influence) e. very hard to believe

5. TENSE 11. DETECTION

a. a little wet (damp) a. judgment
b. fit and strong; physically capable (athletic) b. restriction
c. very different from each other (diverse) c. conversion
d. stretched; tight and rigid d. discovery
e. not exact but close (approximate) e. acceptance
6. CURE

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12. INTERRUPT a. maintain
a. to study something so that you remember it b. pretend
(memorize) c. regard
b. to cause something to stop happening for d. represent
some time e. avoid
c. to write again to improve, or correct errors
(rewrite) 18. RIDICULOUS
d. to strike something loudly or forcefully (bang) a. that deserves laughter, foolish or funny
e. to make something easier to do, use or b. likely to move from its position or fall
understand (simplify) (unstable)
c. talkative; cooperative in giving information
13. ENORMOUSLY (communicative)
a. vastly d. fully qualified or capable of doing (competent)
b. directly e. very thick and difficult to see or get through
c. deliberately (dense)
d. obviously
e. precisely 19. INDICATOR
a. sign
14. NEST b. component
a. a thick string (rope) c. gap
d. force
b. the home of a bird or spider
e. function
c. a long metal weapon (sword)
d. an electrical connector (plug) 20. SPECIFICATION
e. a line of light or energy (beam) a. the process of developing over time
(progression)
15. FLIP b. great energy, strength or concentration
a. find out (intensity)
c. a detailed description of the design of
b. step down
something
c. use up d. the degree to which people or things are the
d. turn over same (similarity)
e. cut off e. the act of becoming bigger or more over time
(accumulation)
16. PRODUCTIVITY
a. the rate at which something is made
b. directions for making something (recipe)
c. a quality that makes something or someone
dependable (reliability)
d. a specific instance of something happening
(occurrence)
e. accepting things as they are, not as you want
(realism)

17. HEDGE