Vocabulary Test

Fill in the blanks with the words given below.

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1. Terry Fox ran halfway across Canada on an ..................... leg after losing his own leg to cancer.

2. Money is ....................., and the government is going to have to make some difficult decisions in order to bring the budget under control.

3. We were quite ..................... that no one was hurt in the car accident we had on our holidays.

4. A ..................... official in the government has denied rumours that the President is ill.

5. The young man changed his mind about joining the military after a day of ..................... training. 6. She was so emotional that she found it hard to keep her hand ..................... when she signed her marriage license.

7. A government cannot be considered truly ..................... unless it is democratically elected.

8. The movie we saw last night was .....................; you’ve just got to see it.

9. It seemed like the ..................... world was watching the television on the day Neil Armstrong landed on the moon.

10. His treatment for cancer has made him ..................... to infection.

11. His memories of the war are still ..................... and disturbing, and often cause him nightmares.

12. That music sounds ..................... to me. Where have I heard it before?

13. The man had very ..................... shoulders and a thick neck.

14. It is somewhat ..................... to try to dance with a kimono on.

15. Ian is a very ..................... tennis player, but an excellent badminton player.