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Vocabulary Multiple Choice. Worksheet 17.

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. Harry thought about betting $200 on a horse called Lucky Harry in the year's biggest horse race but lost his ____________ at the last moment. Fortunately, it fell at the first hurdle!
a. head
b. nerve
c. mind
d. heart

2. I know the truth will finally ____________ and when it does, he who is guilty will be made to pay!
a. out
b. emerge
c. reveal
d. arise

3. The company's financial ____________ was so serious that investors were warned that they could lose all their money.
a. plight
b. dead-end
c. impasse
d. breakdown

4. Are you doing this English course with a(n) ____________ to getting a better job or not?
a. idea
b. vocation
c. intention
d. view

5. If you are ____________ so much with the new Calculus course, why don't you consider doing a few private lessons?
a. fighting
b. struggling
c. battling
d. straining

6. ____________ your continued late arrival at work, I have been pleased with your work here.
a. nonetheless
b. nevertheless
c. regardless
d. notwithstanding

7. Ever since he was bitten on the leg by Harry's dog, he has walked with a ____________.
a. stagger
b. mumble
c. limp
d. fumble

8. By 2am, the number of people at the party had ____________ to almost zero and we left too.
a. subsided
b. dwindled
c. lessened
d. deteriorated

9. Once we knew he didn't take ____________ to being imitated, we stopped immediately.
a. kindly
b. fondly
c. nicely
d. warmly

10. The Prime Minister has said that a tiny, unruly ____________ within the otherwise peaceful demonstration was to blame for the trouble which followed.
a. segment
b. division
c. element
d. portion