Test your vocabulary for fce 2

son who is very wealthy and powerful, especially in business or industry. 
11 A(n)................. is someone who walks beside or helps to carry a coffin at a funeral. 
12 A(n).........is a person who bets money on horse races. 
13 A(n)........is a person who has no home or job and who lives by going from place to place, begging or stealing. 
14 A(n)................. is a person who cleans, prepares and preserves the skins of animals and then stuffs and mounts 
them so that they look lifelike. 
15 A(n)........is a person who is appointed to act as a judge in acompetition. 
16. A(n)......... is someone who refuses to serve in the armed forces or fight in a war on moral or religious grounds. 
17. A(n)................. is a person who enters a place when he/she has no right to be there. 
18. A(n)................. is a person who hates women. 
19. A(n)................. is someone who never drinks alcohol. 
20. A(n)................. is a person who has strong and often unreasonable opinions, especially about religion, race or 
politics, and is intolerant of those who do not share his/her opinions or beliefs. 
21. A(n)................. is the person who carries out the orders in a will. 
22. A(n)................. is a doctor who examines a dead body to find out how the person died. 
23. A(n)................. is one’s husband or wife. 
24. A(n)................. is a ruler who has absolute power and who rules cruelly and unjustly. 
25. A(n)................. is someone who deceives others by pretending to have special skills or knowledge, especially 
about medicine, that he/she does not really possess. 
26. A(n)................. is a person who follows another person’s orders completely without ever questioning them. 
27. A(n)................. is a person who will lend you money in return for an article you possess, e.g. a watch. He/She 
has the right to sell the article if the money is not repaid within a certain time. 
28. A(n)................. is a person who enters and lives in unoccupied property 
without permission and without paying any rent. 
29. A(n)................. is a person who is spending time getting well after an illness. 
30. A(n)................. is a person who keeps going back to a life of crime even after being punished; in other words, 
an incurable criminal. 
KEY 
1 delinquent 4 prude 7 actuary 
2 invigilator 5 stalwart 8 boor 
3 oculist 6 vandal 9 expatriate 
10 magnate 17 interloper 24 tyrant 
11 pallbearer 18 misogynist 25 charlatan 
12 punter 19 teetotaller 26 lackey 
13 v agrant 20 bigot 27 pawnbroker 
14 taxiderm ist 21 executor 28 squatter 
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15 adjudicator 22 pathologist 29 convalescent 
16 conscientious objector 23 spouse 30 recidivist 
MISSING WORDS: TYPES OF PEOPLE 2 
Fill in the missing words in the definitions below. Choose from the following: 
accomplice - bursar - gossip - shop steward 
agnostic – castaway - hermit - sibling 
alien – compatriot - hooligan - swindler 
arbitrator - conscript - midwife - toddler 
artisan - copywriter - peer - tycoon 
assessor - culprit - picket - underwriter 
beneficiary - despot - predecessor - ward 
envoy – registrar 
1. A(n)........ is someone who has been shipwrecked. 
2. A(n)........ is a person who enjoys talking about other people’s private lives. 
3. A(n)........ is a nurse who has been specially trained to advise pregnant women and to assist them when giving 
birth. 
4. A(n)........ is a member of a trade union who is elected by the other members in the factory or office where 
he/she works to represent them. 
5. A(n)........ is a rich and powerful businessman or industrialist. 
6. A(n)........ is someone who has committed a crime or done something wrong. 
7. A(n)........ is a person who helps another person to commit a crime. 
8. A(n)...... is someone who is made to serve in one of the armed forces of a country whether he/she likes it or not. 
9. A(n)........ is a noisy, rough young person who causes damage or disturbance in public places. 
10. A(n)........ is a person responsible for keeping official records. 
11. A(n)........ is a brother or a sister. 
12. A(n)........ is a person who, during a strike, is placed outside a factory by his/her trade union to prevent other 
workers from going in until the strike is over. 
13. A(n)........ is a foreigner who has not yet become a citizen of the country in which he/she is living. 
14. A(n)........ is a skilled manual worker or craftsman. 
15. A(n)........ is a young person who is in the care of a guardian or a law-court. 
16. A(n)......... is someone who has withdrawn from society and lives alone. 
17. A(n)......... is the former occupant of an office, position, etc. 
18. A(n)......... is a person who makes insurance contracts. 
19. A(n)......... is a person who holds that it is not possible to know whether God exists or not. 
20. A(n)........ is a person in charge of a college or school who is responsible for the accounts. 
21. A(n)......... is a person who writes the words for advertisements. 
22. A(n)......... is a person of the same age, rank or status as oneself. 
23. A(n)......... is a person who deceives others, usually to get money illegally. 
24. A(n)........ is a person who is called in to settle a dispute between two people or groups - usually at the request 
of both sides. 
25. A(n)......... is a fellow countryman or countrywoman. 
26. A(n)......... is a ruler who uses his/her power unfairly or cruelly. 
27. A(n)......... is a person who is entitled to receive money or property froma will or insurance policy. 
28. A(n)......... is a small child who has just learnt to walk. 
29. A(n)......... is a person whose job is to calculate the value of a property or the amount of income or taxes. 
30. A(n)........ is a special messenger sent by one government to do business with another government. 
KEY 
1 castaway 4 shop steward 7 accomplice 
2 gossip 5 tycoon 8 conscript 
3 midwife 6 culprit 9 hooligan 
10 registrar 17 predecessor 24 arbitrator 
11 sibling 18 underwriter 25 compatriot 
12 picket 19 agnostic 26 despot 
13 alien 20 bursar 27 beneficiary 
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14 artisan 21 copywriter 28 toddler 
15 ward 22 peer 29 assessor 
16 hermit 23 swindler 30 envoy 
CONFUSING WORDS 
Choose the correct word in each of the following sentences: 
1. Do you think the new tax changes will (affect/effect) you very much? 
2. His behaviour at the party was (contemptuous/contemptible). 
3. This must be the (definite/definitive) reference work on Roman history. 
4. The doctor told him to use the (liniment/lineament) twice daily. 
5. If you print that, I’ll sue you for (libel/slander). 
6. This is my last will and (testimony/testament). 
7. We may have won all our matches this season, but we mustn’t allow ourselves to become 
(complaisant/complacent). 
8. I’ve always wanted to drive big (luxurious/luxuriant) cars. 
9. The situation in China at the moment is tense and (volatile/voluble). 
10. It is most (regretful/regrettable) that Mr Brown has decided to resign. 
11. The police have (conclusive/decisive) proof that he robbed the bank. 
12. How do you expect me to get the work finished when I’m (continually/continuously) being interrupted? 
13. She was a very (intensive/intense) person, who seemed to care deeply about everyone and everything. 
14. My father is a great believer in (altemate/altemative) medicine - especially homeopathy. 
15. She had dyed her hair a (distinct/distinctive) shade of blue. 
16. He spent three years in (goal/gaol) for embezzlement. 
17. Do you enjoy (urban/urbane) life, or would you prefer to live in the country? 
18. He was a man of (sanguine/sanguinary) temperament. 
19. The Government are under no (illusions/delusions) about the difficulties facing the country. 
20 My brother is (credible/credulous) enough to believe anything you tell him. 
21. The Government are very worried about the (elicit/illicit) sales of champagne. 
22. What can be (implied/inferred) from the Prime Minister’s remarks? 
23. I’m afraid the project is far too expensive to be (practical/practicable). 
24. There was an (appreciative/appreciable) drop in temperature last night. 
25. Tasmania lies in one of the (temperate/temporal) areas of the world. 
26. Are these mushrooms (eatable/edible) or are they poisonous? 
27. The majority of tinned food is (deficient/defective) in vitamins. 
28. Only 25 per cent of people voted in the local election; the rest were completely (uninterested/disinterested). 
29. The question of legal abortion is a very (emotional/emotive) issue in America. 
30. The difference in performance between the two computers is (negligent/negligible). 
31. The customs officer was very (official/officious) and made US open up all our bags. 
32. There are very (strict/severe) laws in Sweden with regard to drinking and driving. 
33. The company made (judicial/judicious) use of a Government grant. 
34. Her performance was (masterful/masterly). 
35. The caffeine in tea and coffee acts as a mild (stimulus/stimulant). 
 KEY 
1 affect 13 intense 25 temperate 
2 contemptible 14 alternative 26 edible 
3 definitive 15 distinctive 27 deficient 
4 liniment 16 gaol 28 uninterested 
5 libel 17 urban 29 emotive 
6 testament 18 sanguine 30 negligible 
7 complacent 19 illusions 31 officious 
8 luxurious 20 credulous 32 strict 
9 volatile 21 illicit 33 judicious 
10 regrettable 22 inferred 34 masterly 
11 conclusive 23 practicable 35 stimulant 
12 continually 24 appreciable 
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SAME WORD - TWO MEANINGS 
Find the word which has two meanings in each of the following: 
Example: a type of fish - SOLE - part of a shoe [SOLE: cá thờn bơn – đế giày] 
1. found on a tree 
2. part of a ship 
3. behaviour 
4. not clear (sound) 
5. unspecific 
6. having no legal force 
7. to go away 
8. a dark tar-like substance 
9. to stagger 
10. a slow, dragging walk 
11. a type of flower