Advanced Level Vocabulary Exercise – MCQ Test 5

When the rate of exchange began to rise again, he felt ------ to call a meeting of the financial staff.

The new ceramics, which have little in common with the chinaware we use in our kitchens every day, are being used ------ in engines and electronics.

When they called Mr. Smith to head office, I am quite sure it was not their ------ to promote him to branch manager.

Locke Hobbes and Rousseau were concerned in their writings with the question of a proper ------ between the public good and the right of individuals to exercise free will.

If we are serious about suppressing terrorism, we shall have to ------ stronger measures than those currently in practice.

I am horrified at the turn things have taken and am convinced that he is ------ of much better treatment than that which he is receiving.

When an unknown but gifted artist is finally recognized, his paintings can become valuable ------ in the future.

The journalists asked the Prime Minister so many questions that finally he felt it necessary to ------ the statement.

Geological activity in this region has produced a landscape that is at once ------ and forbidding.

The medieval struggle between secular and religious power came to a ------ in the 14th century with the rise of nationalism and the increased prominence of lawyers, both royalist and canon.

It is ------ surprising that the art of ancient America remains the most mysterious and the least accessible.

Bartok was influenced as much by the musical innovations of Debussy and Stravinsky as by East European, ------ Hungarian, folk music.

The argument he has put forward is hardly ------ with the information we have so far received on the case.

If the situation in Somalia improves, a significant part of the allied forces will be ------.

More than 4,500 years ago, the ------- Egyptians prepared the first paper from the fibrous stems of papyrus, a grass-like plant.

Few, if any, of the statements made could be ------ substantiated by concrete experimental evidence.

The British entry into the European Community has ------ a new line of policy.

Dependence by primitive humans on their environment would not have permitted them to be ------ the effects of the surrounding world on them.

When the world population ------ the 5-billion milestone in 1987, the United Nations estimated that it would not stabilize until the record mark was doubled late in the 21st century.

At the opening night of the new production of Aida the guest soprano gave a superb, a truly ------ performance.