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Level 6: Advanced/Proficiency >> Vocabulary Worksheets >> Small differences between words at an advanced level of English can be frustrating for students to try and understand. Here is a series of vocabulary multiple choice worksheets for students to not only get the right word but think about why the other answers are not correct.

Vocabulary Multiple Choice. Worksheet 10.

Deciding between different, similar vocabulary items becomes ever more difficult as students progress to higher levels in their English studies. For each question below, choose the best answer from the four possibilities. Think also about why the other three choices are NOT possible.

1. We won the ____________ part of two million dollars on the lottery.
a. most
b. best
c. largest
d. greatest

2 Hopes are ____________ of finding anyone else alive after a fishing boat went down off the Scottish coast late last night. Three men were picked up but another four are still missing.
a. dimming
b. dissolving
c. fading
d. reducing

3. You might have failed twice, but I think you should ____________ and you will eventually succeed.
a. insist
b. prevail
c. persuade
d. persevere

4. The police spokesman said he was ____________ to believe that the arrested man was the serial killer they had been looking for.
a. inclined
b. seemed
c. suspected
d. supposed

5. Even though the two men didn't commit any crime, the police were alerted to their suspicious behaviour ____________ outside the bank for nearly an hour.
a. waiting
b. hovering
c. loitering
d. lagging

6. The team threw on all their substitutes in the last five minutes, all to no ____________ as they lost the game narrowly by three points.
a. use
b. gain
c. avail
d. benefit

7. The ____________ of winter always brings reports of people getting caught out by inclement weather when they least expected it.
a. onset
b. starting
c. onslaught
d. early

8. Soldiers reported many of the prisoners of war to be drunk from the effects of vodka, used by the poorly equipped enemy soldiers to ____________ the pain of toothache.
a. lighten
b. lose
c. soothe
d. calm

9. There will be one general meeting per month, ____________ the usual section meetings every week.
a. besides
b. apart
c. moreover
d. as well

10. There is no chance of you getting the promotion after only two months working here, ____________ the great work you have done.
a. regardless
b. presuming
c. nevertheless
d. notwithstanding