WORDFORM PRACTICE TEST 1
1. Democracy died after a period of ________(cease) wars, imperial expansion abroad, and the rise of demagoguery at home.
2. The consequences of ________ (compel) gambling are comparable to those of any other addictive
disease and are not simply those of financial loss.
3. The prison service has the twin goals of punishment and ________ (habit).
4. The first ________ (conceive) is that legal study at university is exclusively for students who intend
becoming solicitors or advocates.
5. Too late, she remembered the ________ (settle) effect such comments would have on Johnny.
6. Some economists are now predicting the danger of ________ (run) inflation.
7. The ________ (narrate) in this book plays second fiddle to the excellent photographs.
8. They were now faced with seemingly________(mount) technical problems.
9. When you come down on him too hard, you may only intensify his own ________ (critic)
10. Your speech should not have been ________ (lace) with these facts beside the point.
11. Their views lie outside the ________ (stream) of current medical opinion.
12. The teachers are fair and avoid ________ (favour) and scapegoating.
13. She has become ________(mesh) in a tangle of drugs and petty crime.
14. Do not set your goals too high or else you will always be failing and there is nothing more ________ (moral)
15. The demise of the industry has caused ________(tell) misery to thousands of hard-working tradesmen.
16. Attracting the banks are the ________ (surge) economy and reforms that have opened up industries to foreign capital.
17. The ordinary reader is impressed by the tone and manner of publication, and the words chosen to ________ (head) a story.
18. At all events, it was this group of the ________ (possess) that gave the first successful impetus to the Revolution.
19. ________(prey) pricing by large supermarkets was threatening the livelihood of smaller businesses.
20. He is a ________(voice) critic of the president's stance on abortion.
21. She made several ________ (par) remarks about the manager she dislik
22. As women we tend to be ________ (face) and make light of what we have achieved.
23. GEW lamp dimming promise uptime at least 1500 hours, raised productivity and reduces ________ (time)
24. Would you mind if I took one of the pictures as a________(keep)?
25. Mania usually alternates with depression, to form a ________ (pole) disorder.
26. This was too wide a ________ (hole) for the tax planners: no wonder inheritance tax is called a voluntary tax.
27. The teacher said that he found it difficult to cope with a class of ________ (affect) teenagers.
28. He is ________ (fail) polite and tries desperately to understand other people’s views.
29. The court ________ (turn) that decision on the grounds that the Prosecution had withheld crucial evidence.
30. Some of these statements are misleading and some downright ________ (amend)
31. The state ________ (fast) refused to settle this matter at any time.
32. What is illustrated by these photographs is as much the culture of shamelessness as the reigning
admiration for ________ (apology) brutality.
33. The judge found that in her case there were________(mitigate) circumstances.
34. He impressed his audience by the ________ (profound) of his knowledge.
35. The causes of social ________(stress) include inadequate housing.
36. He was in the ________ (envy) position of having to choose between imprisonment or exile.
37. He was ________ (capacity) by old age and sickness.
38. The bank is ________ (solve) and will be unable to live up to its obligations.
39. Natalie considered herself very ________ (virtue) because she neither drank nor smoked.
40. Their refusal to ________ (tail) spending plans and to increase the burden on poll tax payers is expected.
41. Rather than a benevolent "socialist" super power China, whose population is made up over 90%
Han Chinese, will ________ (stride) the world as a racially homogeneous, and communalistic "Middle Kingdom.
42. Broadly speaking, on-line shopping experiences can be categorized into two distinct dimensions:
________ (use) and hedonic value.
43. It encouraged experimenters to propose ________ (beat) or novel approaches to problems.
44. It's a bustling ________ (eat) where the fishy fare is served in cones of butcher's paper.
45. Several spoke out against the harshly ________ (right) tone of the original motion.
46. Elections are essential for the ________ (sustain) of parliamentary democracy.
47. ________ (similar) is consequently difficult, particularly as the minority groups experience considerable hostility.
48. Growth and ________ (mature) of vascular plants are often controlled by light, usually in conjunction with temperature.
49. The practice of meditation and ________ (temple) is life-long, reflecting this daily process of
repentance and change at heart.
50. The new policy only serves to ________ (accent) the inadequacy of provision for the homeless.
51. Pressure was applied with cool precision: women had discovered that to ________ (step) male
dominance was to avoid destructive rage.
52. I found your book absolutely ________ (thrall)!
53. Listen to both sides and you will be ________ (light), heed only one side and you will be ________ (night).
54. Bertha, exaggerating the seriousness of the affair, thought it ________ (charlatan) to undertake a
post without knowledge and without capacity.
55. I write this down ________ (verb), for much the same reason I took notes in college.
56. She came to the party wearing a(n) ________ (land) costume and blond wig.
57. Opposition leaders said they would try to stage nationwide protests, but previous opposition rallies
have met only ________ (warm) support.
58. She gave me some friendly advice without a trace of ________ (descend)
59. It's that ________ (patron) tone of hers that I can't bear.
60. And then, to the audience's ________ (mystic), the band suddenly stopped playing.
61. The ________ (conspire) of the assissination of the president was brought to light in time.
62. The report is critical of attempts by________(official) to deal with the problem of homelessness.
63. The system of counties was essential to Frankish government, and a count could wield considerable
power, particularly in ________ (far) regions.
64. Jaubert had been a reasonable man to work for, had never asked her to do anything illegal or ________ (taste)
65. Darwin's theory of evolution was a(n) ________ (shed) dividing the old way of thinking from the new.
66. For twenty-five years he ________ (pain) amassed evidence to support his hypothesis.
67. He felt out of place, a(n) ________ (conform) in a society where conformity was highly prized.
68. She unveiled the picture with a(n) ________ (ceremony) gesture.
69. Travellers may be ________ (inquire) about the world, but they also travel to make discoveries about themselves.
70. Both Hathor and her potential victims became ________ (exceed) drunk and merry, so she failed at her task.
71. Operation Rescue was an organization notorious for its ________ (front) tactics and its implacable
opposition to abortion under all circumstances.
72. A(n) ________ (face) approach to sustainable construction is required for use by policy - makers,
practitioners and civil society.
73. Wage control is the ________ (corner) of the government's economic policy.
74. She's ________ (fail) cheerful no matter what the circumstances.
75. Instead of just ________ (moan) your fate, why not do something to change it?
76. For users, they are still expensive ________ (add) features and come with their own set of integration problems.
77. Foreign observers also accused the authorities of widespread ________ (practice)
78. ________ (type) images of women are used to legitimise male dominance.
79. It will ________ (legal) sex - far from helping girls resist pressure, it will help boys bully girls into sex.
80. Mongolia, although poor, has considerable ________ (tap) resources of oil and minerals.
81. Towards the end of the ________(infant) period the child is becoming more perspicacious.
82. It would be ________ (ingenuity) on our part to pretend ignorance of our book's impact, both in sales and controversy.
83. I think I must have known ________(conscience) that something was going on between them.
84. If evolution has________ (wire) into us a belief that there are objective moral obligations, then we will believe that there are
85. You want clothes that are stylish as well as practical, versatile, ________ (task) and low maintenance.
86. His failures ________ (line) the difference between theatre and film direction.
87. In other words, subcultural cleavage has attenuated and cultural ________ (homogeneous) has
extended from structural orientation into policy orientation.
88. As the inspector and others came in, she regarded them ________ (disdain), seemingly unconcerned about her capture.
89. The concert hall itself reminds one ________ (play) of reproduction art deco and is also
acoustically first-class and adaptable.
90. She didn't want to confront the ________ (escape) fact that she would have to sell the house.
91. He made a fortune buying ________ (run) houses and fixing them up to sell.
92. Business schools, who currently dominate entrepreneurship teaching and research,________
(compartment) knowledge into functional boxes.
93. Idealism was deeply________ (credit) by the failure to prevent the outbreak of the Second World War.
94. We will reform principal local councils into a(n) ________ (unit) system based on natural
communities and the wishes of local people.
95. Since ________ (regulate), banks are permitted to set their own interest rates.
96. These years witnessed the ________ (integrate) and destruction of the English peasantry.
97. This was really a(n) ________thought, and I reproved myself often for the simplicity of it. (whim)
98. There seems to be a(n )________ (satisfy) demand for more powerful computers.