NEC - Practice for Word Formation - bài tập WORD FORMATION Khó

Practice for Word Formation
All the materials are collected in the Oxford Dictionary (Language Matters)
Fill in the gap the correct form of the given heading ADJUST
1. Other improvements are planned which will result in even easier access, improved support and
adjustability for different sizes.
2. More than 40% of borrowers with jumbo mortgages hold adjustable-rate loans.
3. Comparing with previous years, the age-adjusted rate has increased dramatically over the last quarter with the death
4. The age-adjusted rate is 214.7 deaths per 100,000 men.
5. Far from ill-adjusted, he was later reported to have worked with his partner, Edmonds, for
eleven years "without a word of disagreement". (mentally and emotionally unstable)
6. Inflation-adjusted return reveals the return on an investment after removing the effects of inflation.
7. Children who grow up in time of war are more likely to be maladjusted than others.
8. She walked into the dark room, blinking her eyes to readjust to the dark.
9. The computer has a self-adjusting power supply to meet its need.
10. A well-adjusted, happy child is less likely to be ill. CAPABLE
1. If we keep hunting wild animals and cut down trees, we’ll alter the balance of the biocapacity on Earth.
2. His administration failed to anticipate the big floods earlier this year, and its handling of this
natural disaster proved its incapability.
3. He was incapable of doing this kind of exercise as it was very difficult for him.
4. The meeting room in the hotel is rather capacious, it can contain up to 300 people.
5. I never invite my friend to my house for fear that they’d know the fact that my house is incapacious.
6. What is the capacity of this bottle? -2 litters.
7. The company needs to address, and quickly, efficiency improvements in reaction to the rapid
competition that has built up as a result of overcapacity within the industry.
8. Megakaryocyte capacitances were in the range of 64-694 pF, equivalent to 500-5500 platelets. 9. TOUR
1. Speaking to US farmers, their plans for the future are to expand production, diversify into
added value products such as on-farm cheese production and agritourism and work hard at
improving cost efficiencies to stay profitable.
2. Go through the gate and take the path which heads west and then northwest following the contours of a small hill.
3. These are the entourages that follow important people around, made up of advisors, heralds, messengers and servants.
4. Do you want to take a shortcut or make a detour to see the magnificent scenery?
5. After having left the country for 10 years, I now have a strong desire to make a retour to it.
6. I don’t see any point in wasting your money just to have a first-class seat, a tourist-class is enough to me.
7. In 14 World Cup games in five previous tournaments Korea had not won a match.
8. Accompanied by an Irish historian and hiking guide, we visit untouristed Celtic monuments and medieval ruins.
9. The lure of such incredible flora and fauna attracts ecotourists by the thousands to this
unspoiled corner of Mexico, and there's no shortage of tour operators to ease your way. BECOME
1. Politicians and academics pointed to the building’s unbecoming contours as a cautionary tale of architectural tripe in rag.
2. Even very senior officers can be beguiled into behaving unbecomingly, cruelly, and
destructively while believing they are acting in the best tradition of the service.
3. And for the same reason, the unbecomingness of that which is hated is felt more keenly than
the becomingness of that which is loved.
4. It will take a century before skirts rebecome fashionable again. BLANK
1. There are real fears that many coal merchants, dockers and hauliers will be seriously affected
if the Government's blanket ban goes ahead.
The weather was so cold, I need a woolen blanket.
The stars were hidden behind a thick blanket of clouds only revealed in brief patches.
2. No calls can come in and none can go out - it effectively turns the blankety-blank cell phone off.
3. They were so blankly, stylelessly sensible that they might have been orthopedic appliances.
4. She searched his face, looking for any indication of his recognition, but still there was nothing but blankness.
5. I asked him point-blank whether he wanted the job.
6. A few minutes before the sunset and without firing any warning shots in the air or without prior
effect to disperse the crowds gathered there, a series of prolonged firings at the assemblage were point-blanker.
7. A red-blanket Xhosa wife spends several years in her mother-in-law’s homestead. ICON
1. Although he is dead, his auto-icon is still preserved in the Museum of Art.
2. Teenagers use emoticons within their message to make it more lively.
3. This tool can be handy for long-running tasks; substitute the program name for the sleep
command, and it will iconify the window, do the work and get back in your face when it's done.
4. You must be aware that you are an iconic figure in American letters.
5. A grand sense of confidence accompanies the new materialism, and is exemplified by the
towering steel needle, the Dublin Spike, which stands iconically in the very heart of the capital.
6. They have been iconised in billboards and adverts across America - as symbols of strength, courage and self-sacrifice.
7. He was an iconoclast who refused to be bound by tradition.
8. For twenty years he was a star performer at the Cambridge history podium - theatrical, witty, irreverent, iconoclastic.
9. In the last years of the eighth century an iconodule party was in power, and the ruler was a
woman, the Empress Irene, who had achieved her position by having her son, the Emperor
Constantine VI, blinded. (≠ iconoclast)
10. Where iconodulists gather, iconoclasts cannot be far away.
11. There's black and white pictures of presidential iconography: the oval office, motorcades, and
the Presidential helicopter named Marine One.
12. By the late mid-fifteenth century, the visual rhetoric of Western Catholicism could be said to
reside firmly in the hands of private providers overseen by commissioning bishops and scholarly iconographers.
13. Working in metals, resin, wood and paint, Bourgeois has developed a strict iconographic
language in which for example sewing and its tools are specifically to do with repair and motherly love.
14. Or else, they may appear as a goon squad, gate-crashing an art gallery, seizing and burning
contemporary paintings that they find contrary to their iconographical tastes.
15. In this they are unlike iconographically similar photographs by recognized photographers.
16. For Fairey, the intent of art is to deconstruct this iconolatry.
17. While iconography is a descriptive and classificatory discipline, iconology is an interpretative
method, which aims to contextualize works of art culturally and explore their possible meanings. 18.
Document Outline

• ADJUST
• CAPABLE
• TOUR
• BECOME
• BLANK
• ICON