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Advanced Vocabulary 11
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Doing something suddenly, without planning it - On the ___________ we decided to visit James.
spur of the moment
tip of the moment
wing of the moment
edge of the moment
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the lowest amount of money that you can buy a particular thing for - These apartments have ________ price of £500,000.
an ending
a beginner
a smallest
starting
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inside the range of distance where you can hear something or someone - Make sure the children are playing ___________.
within hearing
within sound
within hear
within earshot
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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
stir
slip
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death - On his __________, the land will go to his son.
decease
dying
morgue
demise
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an opinion formed too quickly to - You should avoid making __________ and get to know her first.
hurried opinions
quick conclusions
hasty judgments
rapid assumptions
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to stay somewhere for a period of time - If you ___________ after the concert and you might meet the band.
slip back
swing back
stray around
stick around
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to be able to obtain something - I read anything I could _____________.
grab onto
catch onto
hold onto
get my hands on
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to leave someone waiting on the phone - His line’s busy at the moment – I’ll _____________.
put you on hold
place you on wait
stand you on standby
get you on waiting
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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 _____________.
implant a deadline
instigate a deadline
impead a deadline
impose a deadline
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causing death - Police are investigating a _________ accident in the town centre.
fatal
terminal
feeble
life-threatening
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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.
self-depreciating
self-esteem
selfish
selfless
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to accept the unpleasant parts of a situation as well as the pleasant parts - In a long relationship, you have to ________ .
get the tough with the easy
take the rough with the smooth
eat the sour with the sweet
have the good with the bad
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something that is easy and without problems - I had revised for weeks, so the test was _________.
plain sailing
pretty fine
pure easy
usual cruising
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in a place where few people go - Her cottage is a long way _____________.
far from civilization
from somewhere
to nowhere
off the beaten track
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Saying sorry for someone´s bad luck especially when someone has died - Please ___________ to your sister on her loss.
hand my sorrows
offer my condolences
give my congratulations
share my saddness
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a walk that people pay you to do in order to raise money for charity - I owe Saskia $10 for that ________ walk she did.
funded
lucrative
sponsored
charitable
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causing little damage to something so it lasts a long time - We need to find more _______ sources of fuel.
sustainable
fulfillable
attainable
managable
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a large uncountable flow of something - He received a _______ of abuse from the crowd.
pinch
trickle
speck
torrent
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to phone someone - Let´s ___________ to see if he will pick us up with the car.
call to Dad
call Dad in
call Dad up
call Dad on
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an area of completely wild land that is far away from where people live - We walked through the _________ of northern Scotland.
remote wilderness
wild place
far vecinity
outback
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to make someone wait for you - The boss is ready to see you – don’t __________!
let her wait
have her waiting
make her late
keep her waiting
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a journey to a place that nobody knows about - Their expedition was a real ______________.
travel into the distance
trip into the desert
voyage into the unknown
journey into the wilderness
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Not pleasant or friendly to be around - We visited some of the world’s most ________ deserts.
indispicable
inhabitable
inhospitable
unhospitable
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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.
scrub
scrape
wipe
scratch
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