Everyday Vocabulary Argument Test

(Please note: The following questions are part of a cloze test. They are interrelated, meaning that the information provided in each question is connected to the others.)

ARGUMENT

I’ve always had a feeling of __1__ towards my older brother John because he always received more attention from our parents.

There has always been __2__ between us.

And now that I’m more successful than he is in my job, he is __3__ of me.

We’ve never actually had a __4__, just the occasional __5__, but we’ve never got on well.

We’ve never actually had a __4__, just the occasional __5__, but we’ve never got on well.

And his wife likes to make things worse. She’s a real __6__, a nasty, argumentative, quarrelsome, __7__ woman.

She’s a real __6__, a nasty, argumentative, quarrelsome, __7__ woman.

I’ve heard her __8__ John continually to get a better job, a bigger house, a nicer car.