Test your vocabulary for fce 7

RY FOR FCE 7 
PUZZLE IT OUT 
 Find two or three letters which will complete the first word and start the second. Fill in the open boxes 
to make the second word. The clues will help you. 
 Example: 
a. 
L I O N C E 
 King of the jungle [LION] / One time only [ONCE] 
b. 
S L I M A G E 
 Attractively thin [SLIM] / A picture formed in the mind [IMAGE] 
1 
C E N 
 Middle part of something / A crime 
2 
A P A 
 Lack of interest, enthusiasm / Type of herb 
3. 
A R 
 Particular space or surface / Used by an artist 
4. 
C A T 
 Provide and serve food and drinks / Rub out 
5. 
W A 
 What a surfer waits for / The poison that a snake injects into you when it bites 
6. 
E A R N 
 Serious Aand determined/The wide part of a river where it joins the sea 
7. 
G O 
 A farm animal/A room at the top of a house 
8. 
W A I 
 Part of the body/A way of looking 
9. 
I D 
 Lazy, wasting time/Allowed by law 
10. 
P R 
 Animal hunted and eaten by another animal / Where an eagle lives 
11. 
S E 
 A sea creature/Permit 
12. 
F O R 
 To make an illegal copy of something, e.g. a banknote / Birds, similar to ducks 
13. 
B A R 
 A container/An athletics track event 
 14. 
C A R 
 Covers a floor/Part of a flower 
15. 
D E N 
 Thick and difficult to see through / To take possession by force 
16. 
S P O 
 An item of cutlery / A vegetable 
17. 
T A 
 Not wild / Not generous 
18. 
P R 
 A type of baby’s cot on wheels / To make written changes in something, e.g. a law 
19. 
L A P 
 Part of a jacket / A sad poem or song usually about someone who has died 
20. 
C O A 
 A vehicle / An unpleasant task 
21. 
S P I 
 Backbone / Used in sewing 
22. 
O P A 
 Cannot be seen through / A line of people 
23. 
S I 
 To write one’s name / A small insect 
24. 
B A 
 Food put on a hook to catch fish / Makes you want to scratch 
KEY 
1. CENTRE - TREASON 4. CATER - ERASE 
2. APATHY - THYME 5. WAVE - VENOM 
3. AREA - EASEL 6. EARNEST - ESTUARY 
7. GOAT - ATTIC 10. PREY - EYRIE 
8. WAIST - STARE 11. SEAL - ALLOW 
12. FORGE - GEESE 13. BARRE - RELAY 
14. CARPET - PETAL 15. DENSE - SEIZE 
16. SPOON - ONION 17. TAME - MEAN 
18. PRAM - MEND 19. LAPEL - ELEGY 
20. COACH - CHORE 21. SPINE - NEEDLE 
22. OPAQUE - QUEUE 23. SIGN - GNAT 
24. BAIT - ITCH 
 MULTIPLE-CHOICE 
Choose the word or phrase which best completes each sentence. 
1. The strong smell of garlic seemed to .................. the whole flat. 
 a. pierce b. penetrate c. inhabit d. pervade 
2. The chairman of the local council had a ......... interest in the building of a new supermarket near the town 
square. He owned the land there. 
 a. guaranteed b. permanent c. vested d. self 
3. When we eat chicken in our house, my wife always insists on having the ............. nose. 
 a. sailor’s b. cock’s c. parson’s d. fowl’s 
4. He apologised profusely, swearing never to do it again. But his wife refused to be ........... As far as she 
was concerned, he had done it once too often. 
 a. persuaded b. forgiven c. consoled d. mollified 
5. After five weeks, both parties in the strike agreed that it should be settled by 
 a. arbitration b. ballot c. adjudication d. tribunal 
6. Don’t rush me; I hate having to make .......... decisions. 
 a. sharp b curt c. prompt d. snap 
7. The sea between Dover and Calais was so .......... that most of the passengers were seasick. 
 a. heavy b. bumpy c. choppy d. gusty 
8. People who .................. their food often get indigestion. 
 a. bolt b. munch c. nibble d. stuff 
9. I can either move to another department or look for another job. It’s choice really. 
 a. nobody’s b. Hobson’s c. sod’s d. Murphy’s 
10. Most people agreed that the recent trial was a complete........... of justice. 
 a. satire b. corruption c. travesty d. abortion 
11. My cousin earns her living b y ........... old paintings. 
 a. renewing b. restoring c. reimbursing d. renovating 
12. I’m not quite sure I understand completely. Could you be a bit more........ 
 a. explicit b. punctilious c. distinct d. explanatory 
13. I can never look down from a high building; I suffer from ............. 
 a. amnesia b. hypertension c. vertigo d. egomania 
14. Two days before her wedding, my sister held a ..........party for her female friends. 
 a. bitch b. hen c. cow d. bridal 
15. Her only income being a small allowance, she lived a very ........... life. 
 a. frugal b. mean c. sparing d. extravagant 
16. There w as.............at the cinema when someone shouted “Fire!” 
 a. commotion b. pandemonium c. histrionics d. turbulence 
17. When we missed the last bus home, we had no choice but to take ............... 
 a. Shanks’s pony b. Donald’s donkey c. to arms d. to first footing 
18. I do wish you’d stop making .......... remarks all the time, David. No one’s amused. Don’t you realise 
how serious the problem is? 
 a insincere b. comic c. facetious d. catty 
19. “He thought that a Third World War was eminent” is an example of 
 a. alliteration b. a spoonerism c. a malapropism d. a pun 
20. If she had a .............. of good taste she’d know that those two colours just don’t go together. 
 a. pinch b. hint c. granule d. modicum 
21. The new boss is so arrogant that he is completely............. to all criticism. 
 a. impermeable b. impervious c. void d. resistant 
22. Being a Roman Catholic priest, no one doubted his .............. 
 a. rancour b. veracity c. mendacity d. virility 
 KEY 
1. d. pervade 9. b. Hobson’s 16. b. pandemonium 
2. c. vested 10 c. travesty 17. a. Shanks’s pony 
3. c. parson’s 11. b. restoring 18. c. facetious 
4. d. mollified 12. a. explicit 19. a. a malapropism 
5. a. arbitration 13. c. vertigo 20. d. modicum 
6. d. snap 14. b. hen 21. b. impervious 
7. c. choppy 15. a. frugal 22. b. veracity 
8. a. bolt 
MISSING WORDS: TYPES OF PEOPLE 
Fill in the missing words in the definitions below. Choose from the following: 
big shot fence mole soft touch 
brick gate-crasher old maid sponger 
busybody grass rough diamond swot 
chatterbox grass widow scab tout 
dab hand guinea pig skinflint underdog 
dark horse kerb crawler slavedriver wet blanket 
diehard lame duck smart aleck whizz kid 
dogsbody landlubber 
1. A(n)..................is a woman whose husband is away for a period of time. 
2. A(n)..................is a person who is not used to the sea or ships. 
3. A(n)..................is someone who continues to work when his/her fellowworkers are on strike. 
4. A(n)................. is a person who dislikes spending or giving money. 
5. A(n)................. is a person who offers tickets that are in short supply for sale for a price higher than 
usual. 
6. A(n)..................is a very important or influential person. 
7. A(n).................. is someone who cannot stop talking. 
8. A(n).................. is a person who turns up at parties without being invited to them. 
9. A(n)..................is a person who works inside an organisation for a long time in order to provide secret 
information for the enemy. 
10. A(n)................. is a person who annoys others by claiming to know everything and trying to sound 
clever. 
11. A(n)..................is a person from whom it is easy to get what one wants, for example money, because 
he/she is kind or easily deceived. 
12. A(n)..................is a person with modem ideas who works with energy and enthusiasm and achieves 
great success in his or her job while still young. 
13. A(n).................is a very nice, dependable person. 
14. A(n).................is a person who buys and sells stolen goods. 
15. A(n)................ is someone in a low-ranking position who has to do all the 
boring jobs that no one else wants to do. 
16. A(n).............. is a person with a kind and generous nature, but whose outward appearance or manner is 
rather rough. 
17. A(n)..................is a person who is expected to lose in a competition with 
someone else, or a weaker person who is always treated badly by others. 
18. A(n)..................is a person who is very inquisitive about other people’s affairs. 
19. A(n)..................is a person who has greater capabilities than he/she shows or than people are aware of. 
20. A(n)..................is someone who informs the police about the people concerned in a crime. This person 
is often a criminal himself/herself. 
21. A(n)..................is a person who is weak or a failure in some way and has to be helped by others. 
22. A(n)..................is a woman who is unlikely ever to get married. 
23. A(n)..................is someone who makes people work very hard. 
24. A(n)..................is someone who studies very hard especially when trying to get good examination 
results. 
25. A(n)................. is a person who is very good at something. 
26. A(n)................. is a person who is used as a subject in medical or other experiments. 
27. A(n)................. is a person who is always taking money and things off other people, usually by taking 
advantage of their generosity or weakness. 
28. A(n)..................is a person who discourages or prevents others from enjoying themselves by being 
boring and negative towards everything. 
29. A(n)..................is someone who refuses to change his/her ideas and opinions (usually political ones). 
30. A(n)..................is a man who annoys women by following them slowly in a car when they are walking 
along the street. 
 KEY 
1. grass widow 11. soft touch 21. lame duck 
2. landlubber 12. whizz kid 22. old maid 
3. scab 13. brick 23. slavedriver 
4. skinflint 14. fence 24. swot 
5. tout 15. dogsbody 25. dab hand 
6. big shot 16. rough diamond 26. guinea pig 
7. chatterbox 17. underdog 27. sponger 
8. gate-crasher 18. busybody 28. wet blanket 
9. mole 19. dark horse 29. diehard 
10. smart aleck 20. grass 30. kerb crawler 
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