Advanced Vocabulary 11 | Baamboozle - Baamboozle

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to set a date or time by which something must be done - If he’s working too slowly, you need to _____________.

instigate a deadline

impead a deadline

impose a deadline

implant a deadline

to be able to obtain something - I read anything I could _____________.

grab onto

hold onto

catch onto

get my hands on

an area of completely wild land that is far away from where people live - We walked through the _________ of northern Scotland.

far vecinity

outback

wild place

remote wilderness

Saying sorry for someone´s bad luck especially when someone has died - Please ___________ to your sister on her loss.

offer my condolences

hand my sorrows

share my saddness

give my congratulations

to phone someone - Let´s ___________ to see if he will pick us up with the car.

call Dad in

call Dad on

call Dad up

call to Dad

death - On his __________, the land will go to his son.

dying

decease

morgue

demise

a walk that people pay you to do in order to raise money for charity - I owe Saskia $10 for that ________ walk she did.

sponsored

lucrative

charitable

funded

Not pleasant or friendly to be around - We visited some of the world’s most ________ deserts.

inhospitable

unhospitable

indispicable

inhabitable

Doing something suddenly, without planning it - On the ___________ we decided to visit James.

edge of the moment

wing of the moment

spur of the moment

tip of the moment

to clean something by rubbing it hard with a brush - We had to _______ the pot really hard to remove the black burn marks from the fire.

scratch

wipe

scrub

scrape

to make someone wait for you - The boss is ready to see you – don’t __________!

keep her waiting

have her waiting

make her late

let her wait

causing death - Police are investigating a _________ accident in the town centre.

terminal

feeble

fatal

life-threatening

in a place where few people go - Her cottage is a long way _____________.

off the beaten track

from somewhere

far from civilization

to nowhere

a large uncountable flow of something - He received a _______ of abuse from the crowd.

trickle

pinch

torrent

speck

trying to make yourself seem less important - She wrote a wonderful book but she is so ____________ that she feels like it was not good enough.

selfish

selfless

self-esteem

self-depreciating

an opinion formed too quickly to - You should avoid making __________ and get to know her first.

hasty judgments

rapid assumptions

quick conclusions

hurried opinions

to accept the unpleasant parts of a situation as well as the pleasant parts - In a long relationship, you have to ________ .

take the rough with the smooth

get the tough with the easy

eat the sour with the sweet

have the good with the bad

to move quickly, and almost or just touch the surface of something - These boats go so fast that they literally just _______ the surface of the water.

slide

skim

slip

stir

to leave someone waiting on the phone - His line’s busy at the moment – I’ll _____________.

place you on wait

get you on waiting

put you on hold

stand you on standby

inside the range of distance where you can hear something or someone - Make sure the children are playing ___________.

within earshot

within sound

within hearing

within hear

causing little damage to something so it lasts a long time - We need to find more _______ sources of fuel.

sustainable

attainable

managable

fulfillable

a journey to a place that nobody knows about - Their expedition was a real ______________.

trip into the desert

journey into the wilderness

travel into the distance

voyage into the unknown

to stay somewhere for a period of time - If you ___________ after the concert and you might meet the band.

slip back

stray around

swing back

stick around

the lowest amount of money that you can buy a particular thing for - These apartments have ________ price of £500,000.

a smallest

starting

a beginner

an ending

something that is easy and without problems - I had revised for weeks, so the test was _________.

pure easy

pretty fine

plain sailing

usual cruising