Vocabulary Test About INJURIES Choose The Right Answer MCQ Exercise 92

A speck is a very small spot or piece of something, often of dust or dirt: a speck of dust. Not grain, which we usually use for sand, salt or rice (a grain of sand).

To slip means to slide by accident and lose your balance, so you fall. Sloped (sloping ground), spilt (liquid) and split (broke into parts) don't fit.

Trod is the past of tread. Tread on something means to put your foot on it: He trod on a broken bottle. Not tripped: you trip over something and fall, but here his foot touched the glass and was cut.

Disabled describes a person whose body or mind is permanently affected by an illness or injury: permanently disabled after an accident. Incapable and powerless describe a lack of ability or power in general, not an injury.

Slightly injured means hurt, but not badly. Slightly is the usual word before injured or hurt. Not merely, because it means the same as only, so only merely repeats itself.

A splash is the sound something makes when it falls into water: fell into the river with a loud splash. Bang and crash are sounds of hard objects hitting each other, and a trickle is a small, slow flow of liquid.

Multiple injuries means many injuries in different parts of the body. It is a fixed phrase in medical and news English. Multifarious means 'of many kinds' and is not used with injuries.

To stumble over something means to hit your foot against it and almost fall: I stumbled over a log. Not skipped, because skipping over something means jumping over it on purpose, and the speaker didn't see the log.

Make someone jump means to surprise or frighten them so that their body moves suddenly: The noise made me jump. Not frighten, scare or startle: these verbs take an object (The noise frightened / scared / startled me), so made me frighten, made me scare and made me startle are wrong.

Peel is the skin of fruit like oranges and bananas: a piece of orange peel. A crust is the hard outside of bread, and a shell covers eggs and nuts.