General ESL Vocabulary MCQ Test With Answers – Advanced Level Exercise 07

By no means means 'not at all' or 'certainly not'. Gone but by no means forgotten says the person has died but is certainly not forgotten. Not by all means, which means 'of course, please do' and gives the opposite sense.

Estimate means to calculate a number roughly when you cannot count it exactly. Here may well be over 2 billion shows the figure is approximate, and It has been estimated that… is a fixed pattern for this. Outlined means 'described in general terms' and does not fit with a number.

Raw materials are natural substances in their basic state, before they are processed into products, such as gas, rock and sulphur here. Not crude: it is used for specific substances like crude oil, not in the fixed phrase raw materials. Scrap means waste metal or paper, and rude and vulgar describe behaviour.

Tiny means very small and goes naturally with secluded (far from other places) to describe a remote mountain village. The name Minikköy even means 'tiny village' in Turkish. Enormous contradicts the idea of a secluded village, and tidy or local do not describe its size or remoteness.

To be troubled by a feeling means to be worried or disturbed by it, as in She was troubled by doubts. The jury thought a hardened criminal would never feel bad about his crimes. The other verbs do not collocate with feelings of guilt.

To loosen your grip on something means to reduce your control over it. The second sentence shows the clue: staff no longer need permission, so control has become weaker. Unlocking does not combine with grip.

Unintelligibly means in a way that cannot be understood. Mumbling, swallowing words and using jargon all make a speaker hard to understand, and In a word introduces a one-word summary of that problem. Vividly, humorously and explicitly are positive or neutral qualities, so they do not summarise a list of faults.

Thrifty means careful with money and not wasteful. It fits the list of positive qualities (industrious, persevering) and creates the contrast with ending up poorer: even careful, hard-working men lost money. Extravagant, spendthrift, wasteful and happy-go-lucky would explain their poverty, so the contrast with but would be lost.

A huge funeral is a very large one, attended by many people. This matches the town's great respect for him, which is also shown by the enormous statue. Swift, relevant, focal and worn-out do not describe a funeral that honours someone.

Falsification is the act of changing something so that it becomes false, as in the falsification of evidence. The word deliberate and the list of grotesque injustices show that something dishonest was done to the evidence. Not exploitation, which means using something unfairly for profit and does not collocate with evidence in this sense.

To track down someone means to find them after searching, as in The police tracked down the thief. In a small village, finding the guilty people would be easy. Rush into, refrain from and conjure up have unrelated meanings, and witness to is not used with a direct object like this.

To varying degrees is a fixed phrase meaning 'some more and some less' or 'to different extents'. For example, All the students improved, to varying degrees. Heights, states, terms and opinions do not form this expression.

Conventional means ordinary or traditional. Here it refers to the usual optical telescopes, which need clear skies. Radio telescopes are compared with these standard ones. Not remote, because that describes distance and gives no contrast in how the telescopes work.

To capture someone's attention means to attract and hold it, and it is a strong collocation. Advertisers want millions of people to notice them. Not inhibit, which means to hold back or prevent, the opposite of what advertisers want.

Human dignity is the worth and respect every person deserves. It fits naturally with human rights, equal treatment and tolerance. Sanity, wisdom, maturity and humility are personal qualities, not social values that a rights foundation would safeguard.

An inhabitant is someone who lives in a place. The question pictures the soul as living inside our inner world, and inhabit means 'to live in'. Inhibition (a feeling that stops you acting freely) looks similar but has a different meaning.

Magnetized means made magnetic. Only magnets attract or repel one another, which is the clue in the sentence. Suspended repeats the start of the sentence and gives no reason for the attraction. Juxtaposed only means 'placed side by side'.

Identified means recognised or discovered. Scientists first found these substances in the normal brain and later linked them to disorders. Deviated and experimented are intransitive (experiment on/with), so they cannot be used in the passive here.

Self-respecting describes someone who has pride in their work and principles. No self-respecting journalist would… is a common pattern meaning a good professional would never do something shameful like stoop to lying. Not self-conscious, which means shy or embarrassed about how others see you.

Indistinct means not clear or sharply defined. A gradual transition from marsh to firm ground means you cannot see exactly where the marsh ends, so its edge is indistinct. The plants also look like those of the surrounding ground. The other adjectives say nothing about a blurred boundary.