Advanced Vocabulary Test 1 – ESL Vocabulary Exercises

He admits ............... that he is a bit of a womanizer.

The farmers are obviously eager to adopt any means to ............... the salinity levels back down to acceptable levels.

How or when my great rage began to abate I cannot say. Somehow it began to wane, and it waned quite rapidly. I ............... my composure within a few minutes.

Due to his general frail health, the king may soon .......... the throne in favour of his son.

Police rescued the two minors who were .......... by their former nanny last week.

I find it truly ............... that scientific knowledge and some of our best human resources should be wasted on researching and developing new ways to maim and kill one another.

A civilized man respects all life and ............... cruelty to animals.

Spherical ............... is an optical effect occurring when the oblique rays entering a lens are focused in a different location than the central rays.

To ............... something is to renounce it or abstain from it, with the implication that this is done publicly.

Organic chemistry, as a science, I truly esteem and admire; but memorising all those lengthy formulas I really ............... and abhor.

Ancient literature ............... prose and poetry concerned with homosexual love. They are everywhere.

Following a heated debate in the Parliament, the defence treaty signed last year was finally ratified.

To ratify means to ______.

About three kilometers from Mordoğan, the road takes an ............... left hand turn and goes down into a valley teeming with lush olive trees.

ARGUMENT: "______ is the most effective solution to unwanted pregnancy and sexual disease."

COUNTER-ARGUMENT: "In which case, I'd rather choose death."

No one in the world could solve such an abstruse problem.

Abstruse means ______.

Just point a ............... in the right direction, will you? All I am asking for is a little help in getting this program started.

Friedrich Engels himself was a capitalist who later in life became a(n) ............... opponent of capitalism.

Even though I was quickly sinking into a(n) ............... of despair, something in me was not ready to give up.

Berbat Süleyman, one of the most bloodthirsty hoodlums in the underworld, was unforgiving toward his adversaries. He did not hesitate to order the murder of Yedibela Yusuf, his arch ______.

A young man was ______ by some ruffians on a lonely street. "Galatasaray or Fenerbahçe?" he was queried in a threatening manner. Not knowing which group had stopped him, the young man cleverly replied, "Beşiktaş" -- and received a few knuckle sandwiches anyway...

The sanctions are to continue until Israel ............... the UN resolutions, one of which calls for a peaceful settlement in Palestine.

At the age of 64, he was now at the ............... of his career as an influential and outspoken member of parliament.

He now acquiesced in every directive he received from his boss, just as he once acquiesced to all his parents' wishes.

Acquiesce means: ______.

I think one would be justified in saying that today we live in an acquisitive society.

Acquisitive means: ----------------.

Some say kımız has a ---------------- aftertaste. It seems that they find it somewhat "acrid". Needless to say, I quite disagree with them.

Animal ............... is the agricultural practice of breeding and raising livestock.

The boss flew into a rage at the janitor's stupidity and it took a lot of tact to ............... him.

Collaborative divorce uses negotiation and cooperation to achieve a settlement with minimal acrimony between the parties involved.

Acrimony means: ______.

His business acumen was such that with the passing of the years he rose to be a director of the company.

Acumen means: ______.

According to an old adage in medicine, “if you don’t look for it, you will never diagnose it.”

Adage means: ______.