Advanced Vocabulary Test 2 – ESL Vocabulary Exercises

We are seeking client management personnel who are truly ............... in oral and written communications.

Is there any objection to my ............... this meeting here and now?

A parliamentary committee severely ............... the Minister last year for accepting personal gifts from foreign companies.

Our new men are particularly adroit in handling this type of machinery.

Adroit means: ______.

Can you imagine a film star not craving for public adulation?

Adulation means: ______.

The ............... of electronic mail made it possible to share information quickly and more effectively.

The visitors pretended that they had not noticed the insult, but it was a(n) ............... that was not likely ever to be forgotten or forgiven.

................... : Action undertaken to increase one's own power and influence or to draw attention to one's own importance.

Please, please don't aggravate the situation! 'Tis already bad enough!

Aggravate here means ______.

The security forces were instructed to step in and disperse any aggregation which they deemed ill-intentioned.

Aggregation means ______.

Colonel Cesurhan tried to ............... his soldiers to stand fast in the face of overwhelming odds.

Apparently, the boy felt no ............... about telling on his friends.

We may never know what really might be taking place in the ............... depths of the schizophrenic mind.

Being mentally alert or quick: That is what having "an ............... mind" means.

By the time they got on the plane he was ............... beyond control and his friends were constrained to tell him quite openly to pull himself together.

The ............... effects of alcohol on the liver have long been known by medical authorities.

To me, the recording and release of Gencebay's album "Give Me a Consolation" back in the 70s has been the ______ of his brilliant musical career.

My uncle's tastes in music are rather ______. He keeps buying all sorts of classical music, jazz, rock-and-roll, and hip-hop CDs.

The colonel warned his men that he expected his orders be carried out with zeal and swiftness by all concerned.

With zeal and swiftness means with ______.

All through the rest of the summer, small enemy units kept ............... the upland villages.

Many TV programs are in fact commercials ............... as good advice on this, that or the other aspect of our lives.

Mr. İzbul's ............... criticism of the management's mishandling of the funds drew enthusiastic support from the shareholders.

The book is on such a(n) ............... subject that I am certain no one understands what it's all about.

The townspeople were worried about the new dam; but their fears were ................... by the authorities who reassured them that even an earthquake of more than 9.5 on Richter scale could cause it no harm.

Trouble had long been ...............  between the rival gangs in the neighbourhood before the final confrontation of last Saturday.

I suspect that these plants aren't ............... to the Aegean region. At least, I've never seen them before.

Reporters are advised to refrain from using clichés or ............... terms when describing individuals who are overweight or obese.

The Pope's visit to Turkland seems to have abated some of the anger caused by his ............... remarks about Islam some time ago.

Islam does not condemn the allurement between the two sexes. However, it sees it fit to forbid its consummation until proper unification within the framework of marriage.

Allurement means ______.

A group of youths stood momentarily, surveyed the old man with disparaging eyes, made some rude allusions to his bare feet, and then marched off giggling to themselves.

Allusion means ______.