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  • Tim-Berners Lee has received many awards as the ___________ of the world wide web. INVENT
    INVENTOR
  • I've lost all ______________ for this concert. I'm finding it boring. Can we go? ENTHUSE
    ENTHUSIASM
  • For someone so young, Carl is a very literate and __________ young man. ELOQUENCE
    ELOQUENT
  • There are power stations across Europe that use the _________ rise and fall of the ocean tides. DAY
    DAILY
  • You don't respond well to positive __________, which is only made to help you. CRITIC
    CRITICISM
  • This book ______________ as a series of lectures about shipwrecks, which were given two decades ago. ORIGIN
    ORIGINATED
  • Don't you find it ______________ how Jeremy always comes to work looking so untidy? INTRIGUE
    INTRIGUING
  • Many often make a _________ between London and New York. COMPARE
    COMPARISON
  • The ____________ of the Rubik's Cube peaked in the early 1980s. POPULAR
    POPULARITY
  • The book, like the movie, tracks the anxiety and ____________ pains of a teenager in 1970s Germany. GROW
    GROWING
  • On the final day, we visited the __________ Victoria Falls and then flew home. MAJESTY
    MAJESTIC
  • __________ as it may seem, mammoths were alive only five thousand years ago. CREDIBLE
    INCREDIBLE
  • The opening of this new restaurant should satisfy the ___________ of local Indonesian food fans. SOPHISTICATED
    SOPHISTICATION
  • Large spiders, ______________ from South East Asia, are now being seen in the local countryside. ORIGIN
    ORIGINALLY
  • The new year ________________ in this area of the country involve dancing and a drink made from melons. CELEBRATE
    CELEBRATIONS
  • If you weren't so ____________ of Ben, he'd be happier to spend time with you. CRITIC
    CRITICAL
  • Collecting garden gnomes might seem an unusual ___________, but many people do it. ACTIVE
    ACTIVITY
  • Doctors say a glass of warm milk before bedtime can result in a more ____________ night's sleep. REST
    RESTFUL
  • This wine has a very fruity flavour to it and a _________ after-taste. I really like it. PLEASE
    PLEASANT
  • Professor Watkins wasn't only an _________ to me, but to thousands of others lucky enough to have met him. INSPIRE
    INSPIRATION
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