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CAE Part 3: Word Formation A

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