Vocabulary Test About SOCIALIZING Choose The Right Answer MCQ Exercise 160

A subscription is money you pay regularly, often every year, to be a member of a club or to receive a magazine: My annual subscription is due. Not contribution, which is money you give to help with something, not a regular membership fee.

Relatives are members of your family, such as aunts, uncles and cousins. Not neighbours: they live near you, so they would not usually live in another country.

Eligible to do something means allowed to do it because you meet the rules, here the age rule: You are eligible to vote at 18. Not admissible, which is used for evidence or arguments that a court or official body can accept, not for people joining a club.

The party was awful, so it was a complete failure: it did not go well at all. Not success, which is the opposite meaning.

We refuse (or decline) an invitation when we say we cannot or will not come. A previous engagement is another arrangement made earlier. Not deny, which means to say something is not true: He denied stealing the money.

By kind permission of someone is a fixed, formal phrase meaning that the person has allowed something: The photos are reproduced by kind permission of the museum. Not courtesy: the usual phrase is (by) courtesy of, without kind.

The person in charge of a committee or meeting is its chairman (also chair or chairperson). Not director, which is used for a person who manages a company or organisation, not a committee.

Put someone at ease is a fixed phrase meaning to make someone feel relaxed and not nervous: She smiled to put me at ease. Not comfort: we say make someone feel comfortable, not put someone at comfort.

Excuse yourself means to say politely that you must leave: She excused herself and left the room. Not apologized, because apologize is not used with myself.

Extend a (warm) welcome is a formal collocation meaning to welcome someone officially: We extend a warm welcome to all new members. Not prolong, which means to make something last longer in time.

Please accept my apologies is a polite, formal way to say sorry: Please accept my apologies for the delay. Not excuses: an excuse is a reason you give, and we don't ask people to accept my excuses.

First (or First of all) is used to introduce the first thing you want to say. Not Foremost, which is used in the fixed phrase first and foremost, not alone at the start of a sentence.