General ESL Vocabulary MCQ Test With Answers – Upper Intermediate Level Exercise 06

It seems to me that they never gave a thought to ............... future problems when the plans were being laid down five years ago.

My ............... objection to neurotics is that they are difficult to live with.

Every substance has a melting point and a boiling point. The former is the temperature at which it changes from solid to liquid. The ______ is the temperature at which it changes. from liquid to gas.

You could ............ being a little bit more friendly, couldn't you?

People become quite ............ when it comes to discussing the differences between the sexes.

I think it was a gross ............. to condemn her.

I resent your last remarks and certainly demand an apology. Sir, we're running a ............... business here!

Both countries have declined to ______ the treaty on the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons, partly out of concern for the other's supposed intentions.

Precautions of this sort are necessary, for it is next to impossible to .............. the exact nature of the difficulties which will confront us.

She is very ______. You just couldn't make her walk past under a ladder.

In the medical profession, men ............. women by two to one.

Severe difficulties must be .............. before cloning can be done with mammals and humans.

He was quite contented; he led a(n) ............... life.

The bridge is so immensely long that the shape of the earth had to be ............... by its designer as an essential part of the project.

Despite these overwhelmingly difficult trading conditions, the company has ______ produced outstanding results.

It suddenly ______ to me that Mr Izbul was the greatest dramatist ever who had never written a play!

Scientists admit they are still ................ by the new disease which is, superficially, not so different from so many other respiratory ailments.

After visiting the Archaeological Museum in the morning, the Izbuls kindly ______ us to lunch at a local shish-kebab restaurant.

I've listened to your argument. It's neither here nor there. In other words, it's quite ______.

"Have you anything to ______?" said the young customs officer, looking straight at me in the eye.