Test on the negative form of words. Exercise 1. 1. Imprisonment without trial is totally ________ in a democracy. ACCEPT 2. The destruction of World Trade Centre has led to a further _____ of the dollars VALUE 3. The Government has decided to close all the _______ pits ECONOMY 4. You should be ashamed of your _______ behaviour during the competition HONESTY 5. I _______ how wide the stream was and fell in. JUDGEMENT 6. Workers who have been ________ dismissed are planning a big strike. FAIR 7. There are so many ________ in this report that it’ll have to be written again ACCURATE 8. Overpopulation often leads to the ______ of our natural resources. ADEQUATE 9. Deforestation has indicated a serious ________ in our environment. BALANCE 10. He’s too _________ to make a good leader. DECIDE Exercise 2 1. A terrible famine is threatening this country. Bread is practically ________. EXIST 2. He’s really hot – headed. He’s very _________ for his age. MATURITY 3. Doing homework is _________ duty for a student. AVOID 4. Beethoven is regarded as one of the _______ of classical music. MORTAL 5. His charm is _________, but I still don’t trust him. DENIAL 6. The painting is __________ genuine. It’s worth thousands os dollars. DOUBT 7. He’s _____ in his loyalty: sometimes he supports us, sometimes he against us CONSIST 8. Living such a long way from the shop can be very __________ CONVENIENCE 9. A frozen chicken should be allowed to ________ completely before cooking FROST 10. Young people who want _______ from their parents often gain success early DEPEND Exercise 3 1. I had strongly objected to his idea. Now I could see that he was obviously __ to me. FRIEND 2. Low tax, high spending, biig budget deficit have led to __ of the county’s economy STABLE 3. You’ll never know how she’ll react. She’s so ________. PREDICT 4. Some people think it’s _ for men not to stand up when a woman comes in to the room. POLITE 5. It’s virtually _________ to predict future accurately. POSSIBILITY 6. It seems ________ to change the timetable so often LOGICAL 7. The students are doing experiment to remove ________ from silver PURE 8. He had intention of appropriating the house of his own brother. He was behaving RATION like an __________ animal. 9. Her criminal record __________ her from serving on the jury QUALIFY 10. He’s so suspicious that he would _______ his own mother. TRUST Exercise 4 1. The children were punished for their ___________. BEHAVE 2. While walking in the moutain, we came across a ________ quarry. USE 3. In a democracy, each citizen has the right to ____ the working of the Government MYSTERY 4. Expenditure on road repairs has been cut to an _______ minimum. REDUCE 5. It’s her _______ performance that made her unknown in the field of Pop music. FREQUENCY 6. We are strongly opposed to ______ in racial discrimination. JUST 7. Burning gas is an ________ way of heating a house. Coal is much cheaper. ECONOMY 8. It’s ______ for buses to run on Sundays. ECONOMY 9. The child had told a white lie to his mother and now he’s suffering from the ___ SECURE 10. He won’t stand any _________ fron the staff SENSE Exercise 5 1. It’s very difficult to make pan – cakes without a _______ frying pan. STICK 2. He sat there waiting ________ for the film to start. PATIENCE 3. A traffic warden is sticking a parking fine to the windscreen of an ____ parked car LEGAL 4. ________ is a major problem in some developing country. LITERATE 5. The only slight _______ in this painting is a scratch is the corner. PERFECT 6. In many country, women still are ______ to men. EQUAL 7. He ______ refused the request for help of his friend. GRATE 8. He’s terribly absent – minded. He even sometimes _____ the number of his children. COUNT 9. The weather was so terrible that we had an _________ holiday. PLEASE 10. In my opinion, weather forecasting is an __________ EXACT Exercise 6 1. He’s an _______ worker. He leaves his tools everywhere. TIDY 2. He was severely punished for his ________ . OBEY 3. It’s _________ of you to reject his offer of help. He’s a reliable person. WISE 4. She’s so _______ that she never gets anything done. ORGANIZATION 5. Mary is sometimes narrow - minded. She has always felt __________. UNDERSTAND 6. Jack was given an unpleasant insight into the ________ in his behaviour. SINCERE 7. It’s _________ of you not to prepare students for their exams. RESPONSIBLE 8. There are so many _______ mysterious in this case. SOLUTION 9. On such a hot day, the sea was ________. RESIST 10. It’s an ____ antique vase. It’s the only one of its kind worth thousands of pounds REPLACE Exercise 7 1. She hates the taste of cigarette. She must choose a _______ to be her husband. SMOKE 2. To our great _______, it rained on the day of the picnic. APPOINT 3. I _______ every word Tom says. I know he’s unreliable. BELIEVE 4. The number 13 is often considered __________. LUCK 5. It is _________ to have much sugar in your diet. ADVICE 6. In some places, the weather changes so quickly that it’s very _________. PREDICT 7. I must apologize for my ___________. COURTEOUS 8. I wrote _________ letters of application, but got no reply. END 9. He was ________ discharged from the army for the ______ to his country. HONOUR/ LOYAL 10. If you keep driving ___________, no wonder you will have an accident. CARE Exercise 8 1. We had a marvelous holiday and out trip to the moutains was ________. FORGET 2. Nobody wear clothes like that anymore. They are terribly ________. FASHION 3. I was late because I ___________ how much time I’d need. ESTIMATE 4. He wrote the book alone, so he doesn’t have __________. AUTHOR 5. Even if you’re good at a game, you shouldn’t be ________. CONFIDENT 6. It’s very rude to interrupt someone in ____________. SENTENCE 7. Many buildings were ________ after the earthquake in 1980. BUILD 8. Most people who work feel that they are ___________. PAY 9. She’s having a rest because she has been __________. WORK 10. I’d lost my key, so I couldn’t ___________ the door. LOCK 11. We have ______ temperatures every night in ________. ZERO/ WINTER 12. People who ________ often become __________. EAT / WEIGHT . Test on the negative form of words. Exercise 1. 1. Imprisonment without trial is totally ________ in a democracy. ACCEPT 2. The destruction of World Trade Centre has led to a further. further _____ of the dollars VALUE 3. The Government has decided to close all the _______ pits ECONOMY 4. You should be ashamed of your _______ behaviour during the competition HONESTY 5. I. ________ to change the timetable so often LOGICAL 7. The students are doing experiment to remove ________ from silver PURE 8. He had intention of appropriating the house of his own brother. He was