Test your vocabulary for fce 5

The plan sounds................. , but I’d like to discuss it with the others before giving you the go-ahead. 
8. Asa child I had ................. faith in my parents. As far as I was concerned, they could do no wrong. 
9. There’s nothing you can do, I’m afraid. The committee’s decision is 
10. He gave a very................. excuse for being late. 
11. To go to university you have to have th e ................. number of A-levels. 
12. Now that it had started to thaw, the roads were very................... 
13. To be a writer, you need among other things a ................. imagination. 
14. Even as a child she was a(n)................. reader. 
15. You could tell she had only just got out of bed. She had no make-up on and her hair was................... 
16. Do you think any other members of the Government are ................. in the current scandals? 
17. The ................. noise from the workmen outside my window was beginning to drive me mad. 
18. People with ................. jobs ought to get as much exercise as possible in their free time. 
19. The board members gave................. support to the proposal. 
20. The police didn’t have any definite proof that he had committed the crime; all the evidence was................... 
21. Only single people are ................. to join this club. 
22. The fact that only 40 per cent turned out to vote in the election is ................. of the state of political apathy 
in the country at present. 
23. The ................. wind in this area is from the west. 
24. Nothing Peter says or does is ever................... He always thinks things out very carefully beforehand. 
25. She was looking for a job ................. with her abilities. 
26. We didn’t buy anything because we thought the prices were.................... 
27. She arrived at a most................. moment; I was just getting into the shower. 
28. She was a ................. writer who averaged fifteen to twenty books a year. 
29. I hate driving through London because the streets are so................... 
30. When the car factory closed down, more than 2,000 workers were made................. 
 KEY 
1 cursory 11 requisite 21 eligible 
2 heinous 12 slushy 22 indicative 
3 indigenous 13 vivid 23 prevailing 
4 petty 14 avid 24 spontaneous 
5 squeamish 15 dishevelled 25 commensurate 
6 adamant 16 implicated 26 exorbitant 
7 feasible 17 incessant 27 inopportune 
8 implicit 18 sedentary 28 prolific 
9 irrevocable 19 unanimous 29 congested 
10 plausible 20 circumstantial 30 redundant 
 ADD TWO LETTERS 
Add two letters to each of the following words (in any place) to form a new word. A clue is given for each 
word to help you. 
1. AGE..................keen 
2. AID .................. fast 
3. ALE .................. part of the body 
4. BALE................... fighting 
5. BARE.................. a container for beer/liquids 
6. BORE................... frontier 
7. CAN .................. expanse of water 
8. CANE.................. used to give light a long time ago 
9. CARE.................. not very plentiful 
10. CASE................. a strongly built building used for defence 
11. CATS..................a plant 
12. COT................... shoreline 
13. FEET..................a small furry animal 
14. DOOR..................a profession 
15. EAR ................. very tired 
16. FAIL .................. one’s parents, relatives, etc. 
17. FEE .................. an enclosure found around buildings, houses, etc. 
18. GAP ................. hold tightly 
19. HEAT .................. something money can’t buy 
20. LAY................. tall and thin 
21. LEER ................. intelligent, able to understand quickly 
22. LICE .................. a fish 
23. LIE .................. sheets, pillowcases, etc. 
24. LUST................. an insect 
25. MALE .................. hard, often white, used for statues and buildings 
26. NICE ................. a metal 
27. OUT ................. a young person 
28. PAD ................. a gardening tool 
29. PEA ................. a form of musical entertainment 
30. PEER ................. often added to food 
31. POLE ................ a breed of dog 
32. RAIL................. a country 
33. RAM..................found around paintings, windows and doors 
34. RED ................. avarice 
35. ROD..................arrogant 
36. ROW................ a weapon, often used by American Indians 
37. SEE ................. a vegetable 
38. TALL................ found in the theatre 
39. WIT ................ another part of the body 
40. WON................. erroneous 
 KEY 
1 EAGER 15 WEARY 28 SPADE 
2 RAPID 16 FAMILY 29 OPERA 
3 ANKLE 17 FENCE 30 PEPPER 
4 BATTLE 18 GRASP 31 POODLE 
5 BARREL 19 HEALTH 32 BRAZIL 
6 BORDER 20 LANKY 33 FRAME 
7 OCEAN 21 CLEVER 34 GREED 
8 CANDLE 22 PLAICE 35 PROUD 
9 SCARCE 23 LINEN 36 ARROW 
10 CASTLE 24 LOCUST 37 SWEDE 
11 CACTUS 25 MARBLE 38 STALLS 
12 COAST 26 NICKEL 39 WAIST 
13 FERRET 27 YOUTH 40 WRONG 
14 DOCTOR 
NOUNS FROM PHRASAL VERBS 
Complete each of the following sentences. 
Example: Although I have flown hundreds of times, I still feel very nervous - especially just before the take- 
off. 
1 The on ................. of the disease is marked by a high temperature and a feeling of nausea. 
2 The start of the tennis match had to be delayed for half an hour because of a sudden down ............... 
3 The final out...............of the talks between the Union and the employers is not yet known. 
4 I didn’t feel like cooking, so I decided to get something from the Indian take ................. instead. 
5 There was a twenty-minute hold-........at the start of the concert owing to technical problems with the lighting. 
6 The factory’s daily out...............has increased by more than 25 per cent in the past six months. 
7 The President denied that he had been involved in the recent cover-8 One of the main draw ..............of living 
in Brighton and working in London is that you have to spend so much time in travelling every day. 
9 According to a Government spokesman, further cut.............. in the public sector are to be expected. 
10 Her father was an ex-sergeant-major in the army. Consequently, she had a very strict up ............. 
11 The car was a complete write-.............. after the accident. 
12 This is the fifth break-............. in the area in the past month, but the police still have no idea who is doing it. 
13 Traffic-jams in the town centre have been reduced dramatically since the new by-................. was opened. 
14 The play got a very bad write-............. in the paper. I was very surprised as I thought it was really good. 
15 This is the third out................of the disease in the past year. 
16 The police are on the look.............for two men suspected of robbing a department store in the centre of town 
recently. 
17 No one was really surprised at the break.......of their marriage. They had never really seemed very happy 
together. 
18 The company has experienced a large number of set............. in recent years. 
19 The latest traffic news is that there is an eight-mile tail..............on the M4. 
20 Our total out..............in the project was £3,500. 
21 Scientists last night announced a major break............. in the treatment of cancer. 
22 I have to go to the doctor for a check .............. next week. 
23 I read in the newspaper this morning that Pélé - you know, the famous Brazilian football player - is thinking 
of making a come.............. 
24 There’s a meeting this afternoon with the architects to discuss the lay..............of the new factory. 
25 From the out............. we knew that the plan was doomed to failure. 
26 The thieves made their get..............in a stolen post office van. 
27 Wine, women and horse-racing were my cousin’s down................ 
28 There has been a steady build-..............of Chinese troops along the Russian border in the past few weeks. 
29 There was a very good turn .............at the recent union meeting. At least 85 per cent of the members were 
present. 
30 I apologise for my out...............just now. I don’t know what came over me. I don’t usually lose my temper. 
31 The firm had an annual turn ..............of almost two billion pounds. 
32 The out.............for the future is not very bright, I’m afraid. 
33 The college was very popular and had an annual in .............of nearly a thousand students. 
34 There was a public out.............when the Government announced it was going to raise income-tax by more 
than 10 per cent. 
35 We were feeling tired after driving for several hours, so we pulled in to a lay-............for a rest. 
KEY 
1 onset 13 by-pass 25 outset 
2 downpour 14 write-up 26 getaway 
3 outcome 15 outbreak 27 downfall 
4 takeaway 16 lookout 28 build-up 
5 hold-up 17 breakup 29 turnout 
6 output 18 setbacks 30 outburst 
7 cover-up 19 tailback 31 turnover 
8 drawbacks 20 outlay 32 outlook 
9 cutbacks 21 breakthrough 33 intake 
10 upbringing 22 checkup 34 outcry 
11 write-off 23 comeback 35 lay-by 
12 break-in 24 layout 
ORIGINS OF WORDS 
Many words used in English are derived from other languages. Look at the pairs of words below and try to 
guess which languages they originated from. Choose from the following and write them next to the correct 
pair of words. The first one is done as an example. (Not all the languages in the list will be used .) 
Afrikaans French Icelandic Spanish 
Arabic German Italian Swedish 
Chinese Greek Japanese Tibetan 
Czech Hawaiian Norwegian Turkish 
Dutch Hindi/Indian Persian Welsh 
Eskimo languages Portuguese 
Finnish Hungarian Russian 
1. Eskimo igloo, kayak 
2. .................. coach, paprika 
3. .................. cobra, marmalade 
4. .................. polo, yak 
5. .................. commando, trek 
6. .................. cruise