TURBOCHARGE YOUR VOCABULARY

Answer the following questions. 1.

Give a former meaning of asylum which is now considered offensive.

2. Rewrite the following sentence, replacing the words in bold with a verb:

The old lady loves her son very much, but he is selfish and uses her for his own personal advantage by frequently asking her for large sums of money.

3. Rewrite the following sentence, replacing the words in bold with a noun:

Beth always went home to the farm when she was in trouble; she regarded it as a place of protection.

4. Which verb comes from the same word family as the noun detention?

5. Rewrite the following sentence, replacing the words in bold with a verb:

We are going to have to place a limit on the number of people who are invited to the party; the hall is quite small.

6. Rewrite the following sentences, replacing the underlined words with a verb:

At that time there was a law against bringing animals into the country, but Alice brought her dog in secretly and illegally, hiding it under a blanket in the back of her car.

7. Give a verb which is quite rare in British English and is opposite in meaning to emigrate.

8. Rewrite the following sentence, replacing the words in bold with a noun. The people who hid on the ship without paying were not discovered until the vessel landed at the port.

9. Rewrite the following sentence, inserting the missing two-word noun:

They are ..................... ; they have come to Britain not because they are in any kind of danger in their own country, but because they wish to have a better standard of living for their family.

10. Benefit commonly means something which is good for you or has a good effect on you. Write down another more specialised meaning which is connected with money. etc. work, to disabled or ill too being of because unemployed, being of because help financial of need in is who someone to government a by given money is Dole Dole. 10.

refugees economic 9. stowaways 8. Immigrate 7. smuggled 6. restrict 5. Detain 4. refuge 3. exploits 2. hospital mental A 1.