4000 Essential English Words

Exercise 3

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

b. inside c. instant d. unclean

1. inclusion
   a. exclusion


2. regain
   a. snow


3. eternal
   a. great


4. dump
   a. gather


5. fluctuate
   a. heal

b. break

b. true

b. explain

b. remain

c. lose

c. flat

c. solve

c. stutter

d. smell

d. brief

d. glow

d. choose

Exercise 4

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

1. 
   

   The branches moved to and fro in the breeze.

   
   


2. 
   

7.

9.

Honeybees collect pollen from flowers.

3. The meeting was eternal. It lasted only ten minutes.


4. The adhesive on this tape doesn’t work anymore. It won’t stick.
   5. In order to get into the sports arena, we had to pay a phoenix.
   6. This past week the weather has fluctuated a lot. It’s been warm and sunny every day.

Don’t touch my knee. It tickles when anything touches me there.

. She dumped the dirty water out back in the garden.

My level of Spanish is only at the intermediate stage.

The texture of his workload was incredible.