4000 english words volume 5-ebook (1)

Exercise 1

Choose the one that is opposite in meaning to the given word.

1. 
   

   remedy
   a. island

   
   


2. 
   

   latter
   a. first

   
   


3. 
   

   terminal
   a. brief

   
   


4. 
   

   commence
   a. rescue

   
   


5. 
   

   precise
   a. moist

   
   


6. 
   

   synthetic
   a. natural

   
   


7. 
   

   extract
   a. manage

   
   


8. 
   

   publicity
   a. gravity

   
   


9. 
   

   impulse
   a. truck

   
   


10. 
    

    fabulous
    a. rude

    
    

b. instance

b. rough

b. chilly

b. finish

b. insane

b. rhythmic

b. anger

b. privacy

b. music

b. noisy

c. movie

c. temporary

c. pleasant

c. require

c. messy

c. shiny

c. insert

c. bravery

c. revenge

c. fertile

d. poison

d. trivial

d. curable

d. twirl

d. hungry

d. harmless

d. explode

d. energy

d. plan

d. awful

Exercise 2

Fill in the blanks with the correct words from the word bank.

..........................^ Word Bank $................................................

subsequent fabulous impulse publicity extract

astonished assess terminal essence

The patient’s illness seemed like it might be 1 _____________.

To save him, doctors had to 2 ______________the infected tissue.

On an 3 ____

It led to his 4_

he kicked the wall and it revealed a secret pass.

escape from the prison.

ongoing

It was difficult to 5_. in which direction the forest fire would go.

One reason was that anything could happen while the fire was 6_____________.

The 7 ______________of the mayor’s speech was about building the new library.

The building would be a(n) 8_____________addition to the scenery downtown.

His amazing skills during the last half of the game 9 _____________the crowd.

Then that night, he received a lot of 10 ______________from all the news shows.