Vocabulary Building 4

B.  VOCABULARY WORK

Choose the word the best completes the sentences.

1.         You should look in the ……..ads for apartment to share

(a.        Fashion b. country        c. classified     d. studio)

2.         When Mary rented her apartment through a broker, she didn’t have enough money to pay both rent and broker………

(a.        Rentals             b. reductions     c. fees d. listings)

3.         You will definitely have to sign a…………… for a year

(a.        bulletin  b. rental            c. check         d. lease)

4.         You and the person with whom you share an apartment must be………

(a.        compatible         b. similar        c. generous     d. neat)

5.         Middle- income families cannot pay…………...high monthly interest charges

(a.        Standard          b. absurdly       c. intensely        d. fashionably

6.         The cheapest apartment I could find was a…………….              

(a.        Studio              b. river view   c. terrace            d. den)

7.         Newspaper ……………..shows a wide variety of available housing.

(a.        Columns           b. editorials         c. headlines   d. ads)

Vocabulary Building 3

A	B
A. sure	1. inexorable
B. unable to do things	2. imprudent
C. unharmed	3. incoherent
D. inflexible	4. incongruous
E. unwise, not careful	5. disreputable
F. forbidden	6. infallible
G. disjointed, garbled	7. incessant
H. not neat	8. illiterate
I. very great	9. incalculable
J. of bad character	10. disconnected
K. unable to read and write	11. illicit
L. inappropriate	12. inept
M. constant	13. unscathed
N. upset	14. inevitable
O. unavoidable	15. unkempt

ANSWER :

Vocabulary building 2

Fill in the missing word in the sentence below. Choose from the following.

Put someone’s back up and pull someone’s leg by the ear

Live from hand to mouth, pay through the nose, pick someone’s brain

Lose one’s head gives someone the cold shoulder, tight-fisted

Lose heart tongue-twisted tongue-tied

Keep your hair on! Be up in arms over something tongue-in-cheek.

1. To…………………………………means that you spend all your money as soon as you get it and never save for the future. You just live from day to day.

2. If you play a musical instrument………………………………….it means you play it without using printed music to play it from memory.

3. To………………………………means to become discouraged.

4. To……………………………...means to be very angry or to protest very strongly about something.

5. If a person is……………………….he or she is too shy or nervous to speak.

6. To……………………………..means to make someone angry or annoyed.

7. To…………………………….means to panic or lose control of oneself.

8. A……………………………..person is someone who is very mean.

9. To……………………………means that you ignore him or her and threaten him or her in an unfriendly way.

Vocabulary Building 1

VOCABULARY BUILDING

1. The men had to ........... (carry across) their canoe through the woods to the river’s edge.

2. That sentence requires a/an .......... (half colon).

3. His............. (after the operation) condition was excellent.

4. The law requires that there be a/an...................(way out) from the second floor apartment.

 5. Magellan.................. (sailed around) the world.

6. Our new president is much more popular than his............... (one who came before).

7. After the protest march, the crowd ................... (split apart)

8. In the evolution of animals, plants.................... (came before) insects.

9. We never agree; his opinions are always..................(against) to mine.

10. There seems to be a natural..................... (feeling against) between cats and dogs.

11. Workmen at the refinery find that the smell of oil................(goes through) their clothing.

12. Students engage in many..............(beyond the curriculum) activites.

13. The unceasing ring of the telephone............(came between) my work.

14. It is................(not possible) for him to see you today.

15. Living in a/an..................(underwater vehicle) is most confining.

16. He got a jon as a/an..................(person above) in a dress manufacturing company.

17. The chairman of the boat takes..............(right to come before) over the other board members.

18. The.................(people for) of conservation protested against strip-mining.