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Vocabulary Multiple Choice. Worksheet 7.

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. The walls of the local military command were ____________ by anti-government graffitti and that was the first sign of general rebellion in the city.
a. defaced
b. destroyed
c. mutilated
d. deformed

2. Harris is a great player but often, he is ____________ to disappear from a game in the last twenty minutes and that is what happened here today.
a. apt
b. tend
c. habit
d. prone

3. All the hotels along the river are of good quality except The Palace Hotel. If you ____________ clear of that, you shouldn't have too many problems.
a. turn
b. steer
c. veer
d. swerve

4. I can see how old those jeans are. They have ____________ almost to a sky blue colour after all these years.
a. faded
b. blanched
c. disappeared
d. reduced

5. That old house is ____________ with rats! There is no way I would ever go and live there without at least five cats.
a. riddled
b. infected
c. crowded
d. inflicted

6. What I really ____________ for when I was young was a pony but my parents didn't have enough money and I had to be happy with a hamster!
a. yearned
b. craved
c. desired
d. needed

7. He was arrested on a lonely highway and charged with drinking while under the ____________ of alcohol.
a. power
b. influence
c. spell
d. side effects

8. ____________ by despair at her situation, she tried in vain to rob the local bank and ended up in prison for five years.
a. compelled
b. forced
c. desperate
d. driven

9. I have to ____________ your offer of money at this time but will consider your generous gift if need be in the future.
a. decline
b. deject
c. confound
d. refute

10. Bill and Mary resolved their problems after her brother got them to sit down and have a(n) ____________ talk with each other.
a. candid
b. overt
c. servile
d. piteous