VOCABULARY TEST 5 

1. The topics included in the conference programme are not as _____ as one might have hoped.
A) obsessed
B) illuminated
C) preoccupied
D) varied
E) disposed

2. Throughout most of human history, people's movements on land were _____ to those speeds and distances that could be attained by walking.
A) affiliated
B) acquired
C) promoted
D) restricted
E) inclined

3. The French physicist Jean-Antoine Nollet is _____ with the earliest recorded observation of osmosis in 1748.
A) fortified
B) credited
C) satisfied
D) competed
E) detained

4. On the third day after the shipwreck, they gave up all hope of finding any _____.
A) deserters
B) conclusions
C) survivors
D) suppliers
E) discrepancies

5. The allocation made by the budget committee can be used _____ to finance work on child health.
A) plainly
B) excessively
C) extremely
D) remarkably
E) solely

6. Since the firm has been found negligent by the court, his claim for _____ for the accident has been accepted.
A) compensation
B) reduction
C) employment
D) relevance
E) cooperation

7. I don't approve of the methods he is using, but his _____ aim, as regards the project, is admirable.
A) conclusive
B) ultimate
C) controversial
D) convenient
E) deplorable

8. If he gets this _____, it will help him to recover his self-confidence.
A) accuracy
B) exposure
C) promotion
D) activity
E) procedure

9. In 1883, before the electron was discovered, the Swedish physicist and chemist Svante August Arrhenius _____ the existence of ions in solutions in order to explain electrolysis.
A) improved
B) reassessed
C) awakened
D) alleged
E) postulated

10. The testimony of the last witness _____ the accused off all suspicion.
A) induces
B) removes
C) clears
D) surmounts
E) exposes

11. By all means, give all the medical details, but do _____ from giving any names.
A) relent
B) excuse
C) deny
D) refrain
E) respect

12. Mark's warm and humorous personality _____ everyone at the conference.
A) enhanced
B) frightened
C) confirmed
D) captivated
E) disgusted

13. An election in which all members of a political party are _____ to select candidates is called a direct primary.
A) excluded
B) separated
C) distinguished
D) entitled
E) assessed

14. The most common type of government in the 20th century, representative democracy _____ in Western Europe, North and South America, Australia, New Zealand, Egypt, and Japan.
A) prevails
B) reinforces
C) commits
D) enacts
E) stabilizes

15. President Bush's special envoy, Zalmay Khalilzad, has stressed that any military movement or combat in Northern Iraq should be under the overall _____ of the USled coalition.
A) supply
B) reliance
C) priority
D) phase
E) command

16. Although balloons had been used for military purposes for some time, the _____ use of the airplane as a weapon during World War I was especially troubling.
A) prevalent
B) equivalent
C) indifferent
D) resultant
E) resistant

17. The mirrors used in Greco-Roman antiquity and throughout the European Middle Ages were simply _____ convex disks of metal, either bronze, tin, or silver, that reflected light off their highly polished surfaces.
A) instantly
B) densely
C) slightly
D) utterly
E) steadily

118. The behaviour of light seems to have interested ancient philosophers, but without _____ them to experiment.
A) disbanding
B) discouraging
C) damaging
D) stimulating
E) frustrating

19. Even when his reputation was in _____, almost everyone was willing to admit that he had genius.
A) retaliation
B) eclipse
C) ascendancy
D) differentiation
E) rebuttal

20. No one can say for sure how _____ the awards have been.
A) determined
B) effective
C) reducible
D) effervescent
E) inborn

21. On the foundry, liquid hydrogen must be stored in large stainless steel tanks with double walls filled with _____ and evacuated to a high vacuum.
A) grit
B) device
C) insulation
D) instrument
E) sediment

22. That is our firm's _____ that the new law should be implemented immediately.
A) proficiency
B) consensus
C) struggle
D) aggression
E) regulation

23. As she suffered from digestive troubles after too much eating and drinking during the holiday, the doctor insisted on a strict _____.
A) diet
B) plot
C) dent
D) rife
E) deck

24. One should never _____ in the disputes of neighbours; the best policy is to keep out of other people's affairs.
A) interact
B) leave
C) interfere
D) entail
E) implicate

25. The theme of that play is quite complicated, but the actual _____ of the story is quite simple.
A) summary
B) stage
C) abbreviation
D) surrounding
E) frame