Vocabulary review - unit 1 - Proficiency Expert | Baamboozle - Baamboozle

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A quiz on Vocabulary

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The singer arrived at the airport looking _______ after almost a year of touring.

savage

jaded

lousy

churn

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She really _________ and sweated to get to the top of her profession.

jaded

ranked

despised

hustled

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This word is a synonym for shabby, in bad conditions.

tatty

jaded

hustled

stew

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Don't touch my notebook. My personal stuff is totally ____________!

out of limits

by leaps and bounds

of limits

out of bounds

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My reading skills have improved __________ since I started reading books every night.

in leaps and jumps

by leaps and bounds

by jumps and bounds

in jumps and leaps

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His ambition ____________________.

knows no limits

has no leaps

hasn't got jumps

knows no bounds

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There is no need to ___________ just because I asked you how much you earn.

jump down my neck

jump down my throat

jump in my throat

jump in my neck

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The final step before the first night of a theatre performance is the _______.

cue training

dress rehearsal

ovation

curtain call

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Despite the struggle with her costume, she managed to enter the stage ______.

on cue

at cue

off cue

in cue

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An actor who learns a part in a play so that they can act the part if the usual actor is ill is.

the screenwriter

the stage replacement

the overstudy

the understudy

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Someone who writes plays , a dramatist, is a __________.

playwriter

playwright

playauthor

screenwriter

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Having to live in the Artic has been an ___________ challenge for me.

unprecedented

inprecedent

unprecedent

inprecedented

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To go somewhere with someone is to ___________.

hark together

get together

tag along

get along

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To be successful in a particular situation, especially one that other people find difficult.

hark on

tag along

thrive on

counteract

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The new style of shoes _________ the 1970s ; color-soled styles which lace up the leg.

tags back to

excels

thrives back to

harks back to

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Give me a synonym for awful / terrible / horrible.

woeful / appalling / dreadful

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