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CAE Part 3: Word Formation A

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  • He efforts in baking bread usually produce _______ results. (DISASTER)
    disasterous
    disastrious
    disastrous
    disasterful
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  • The bath water was so ______ hot that it burned my skin. (PAIN)
    painful
    painly
    painfully
    painfuly
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  • The standard of workmanship on this table is _________ high; it must be worth a fortune. (ORDINARY)
    ordinarily
    overordinarily
    extraordinarily
    unordinarily
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  • The book's weakness is the author's ______ to sustain an a convincing argument. (ABLE)
    unability
    abiltiy
    inability
    disability
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  • A half-hour daily walk can be more ______ than one hard session of exercise a week. (BENEFIT)
    beneficial
    benefitial
    beneficious
    benefical
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  • She appealed ______ against her conviction for murder and was sentenced to 20 years in prison. (SUCCEED)
    unsuccessfully
    successfully
    unsuccesfully
    unsucessfully
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  • The best buys of the week are carrots and cabbages, which are _____ and cheap. (PLENTY)
    plentyfull
    plentiful
    plentifull
    plentative
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  • The ______ of COVID-19 brought the world to a virtual standstill in early 2020. (BREAK)
    outbreak
    breakthrough
    breakdown
    breakout
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  • After 32 days adrift on the high seas, they caught _____ of a small island. (SEE)
    oversight
    sight
    eyesight
    seeing
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  • There's every ______ that she'll be able to help us. (LIKE)
    likeliness
    likeness
    likelyhood
    likelihood
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  • It is said that Cleopatra's ______ beauty and charm captivated all those who met her. (COMPARE)
    uncomparable
    uncompared
    uncomparing
    incomparable
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  • I thought that the party was ______ as there was hardly enough room to dance. (CROWD)
    outcrowded
    overcrowded
    crowding
    crowded
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  • The main problem with the weather in Britain is that it is very _____ . (CHANGE)
    changing
    changable
    changeable
    changeful
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  • A crowd of curious ________ soon gathered to see what was happening during the parade. (LOOK)
    lookalikes
    onlookers
    lookers
    outlookers
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  • Bringing up children ________ hard work and extremely expensive too. (DENY)
    undeniably
    deniably
    undenyably
    undenyingly
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