Vocabulary Test About DRUGS Choose The Right Answer MCQ Exercise 83

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Question 1

The doctor gave the woman a strong _____ to calm her down.

A	antidote
B	antiseptic
C	stimulant
D	sedative

Question 1 Explanation:

A sedative is a drug that makes a person calm or sleepy, so it matches to calm her down. Not antidote, which stops the effect of a poison, and not stimulant, which does the opposite and makes you more active.

Question 2

Morphine is sometimes used to _____ severe pain.

A	deaden
B	decimate
C	smother
D	suffocate

Question 2 Explanation:

To deaden pain means to make it less strong or stop you feeling it: The injection deadened the pain. Smother and suffocate are about stopping someone breathing, and decimate means to destroy a large part of something.

Question 3

I hope this headache _____ soon.

A	comes away
B	goes out
C	passes away
D	wears off

Question 3 Explanation:

When pain or the effect of a drug wears off, it slowly becomes weaker and disappears: The headache wore off after an hour. Not passes away, which is a polite way of saying 'dies'.

Question 4

Few poisons are more _____ than cyanide.

A	deathly
B	killing
C	lethal
D	mortal

Question 4 Explanation:

Lethal means able to kill, and it is the usual adjective for poisons and doses: a lethal dose. Mortal is used with wounds, danger or enemies (a mortal wound), not normally with poisons, and deathly means 'like death' (a deathly silence).

Question 5

The nurse made him swallow a (an) _____ to help him sleep better.

A	lotion
B	lozenge
C	ointment
D	tranquilliser

Question 5 Explanation:

A tranquilliser is a drug that makes you calm and relaxed and can help you sleep. Lotion and ointment are put on the skin, and a lozenge is a sweet you suck for a sore throat.

Question 6

Besides washing that cut, put some _____ on it in case you have got some dirt in it.

A	antidote
B	antiseptic
C	disinfectant
D	medicine

Question 6 Explanation:

An antiseptic is a substance you put on a cut or wound to kill germs and stop infection. Not disinfectant, which is a strong chemical for cleaning surfaces like floors and toilets, not skin.

Question 7

Certain vitamins help to overcome a loss of _____.

A	life
B	vitality
C	vitiation
D	vividness

Question 7 Explanation:

Vitality means energy and strength: a loss of vitality is when you feel tired and weak. Vividness is about bright colours or clear images, and vitiation means making something weaker or spoiling it.

Question 8

The medicine was so _____ that he was almost back to normal within a few days.

A	effective
B	efficient
C	influential
D	proficient

Question 8 Explanation:

Effective means producing the result you want, so an effective medicine works well. Not efficient, which describes people or systems that work well without wasting time or energy.

Question 9

He was in terrible pain, so he was given a (an) _____.

A	injection
B	scratch
C	stab
D	wound

Question 9 Explanation:

An injection is when a doctor or nurse puts a drug into your body with a needle, often to stop pain quickly. A scratch, stab or wound is an injury, not a treatment.

Question 10

He was rushed to hospital after he accidentally took a (an) _____ of sleeping pills.

A	excess
B	exorbitance
C	overdose
D	profusion

Question 10 Explanation:

An overdose is too much of a drug taken at one time, which can be dangerous: take an overdose of pills. Excess means 'too much' in general but is not used in the phrase take an excess of.

Question 11

This is a very rare poison for which there is no known _____.

A	antibody
B	anticoagulant
C	antidote
D	antiseptic

Question 11 Explanation:

An antidote is a substance that stops the effect of a poison: There is no known antidote to this poison. Not antibody, which is made by your own body to fight disease.

Question 12

They _____ on a cure for tuberculosis while they were doing research on something else.

A	foundered
B	stumbled
C	tripped
D	trod

Question 12 Explanation:

To stumble on (or upon) something means to find it by chance, which matches while they were doing research on something else. Trip is not used with on in this sense, and founder means to fail or sink.

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