4000 Essential English Words

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Exercise 3

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

1. mob
   a. broom b. crowd


2. tumult
   a. plan b. gate


3. brute
   a. monster b. camera


4. resent
   a. buy b. lose


5. scrutiny
   a. tower b. part


6. testify
   a. learn b. solve


7. collide
   a. sing b. crash


8. subject
   a. force b. show


9. evacuate
   a. leave b. suck


10. satire
    a. supper b. promise

Exercise 4

c. gun d. choice

c. tent d. noise

c. smell d. temper

c. give d. hate

c. study d. dream

c. greet d. declare

c. float d. bake

c. sleep d. teach

c. check d. share

c. coffin d. comedy

Write C if the italicized word is used correctly. Write I if the word is used incorrectly.

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.We had very little time to evacuate the building before the earthquake.

. The guards sometimes subjected the prisoners to unfair punishments.

_ Some people like to watch action movies. But I enjoy a good satire.

_ When we heard the phone collide, we thought it was our uncle calling us.

. We whispered very quietly in all the tumult, or someone might have easily heard us.
. The women loved the brute because he was so kind and gentle.
. My brother was one of the angry people in the mob that day.
. Her father had to testify in court about the car accident he saw.

_ I tried to solve the math problem several times and finally resented it in the morning.

. He has several large homes and his own airplane because he’s a billionaire.