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CAE Part 3: Word Formation A

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