This exercise tests your range of English vocabulary.
1. Meera was extremely angry but I …………………… her by promising to leave her house and never return.
To assuage is to soothe or pacify.
2. More research needs to be done in how to …………………… conservation needs with growing demand for natural resources.
To reconcile something with something is to find ways to make them both capable of existing together.
3. ……………………… by her friends, she lost all hope.
To forsake somebody is to leave them when they still need you.
4. A ………………….. study found the site suitable for building the airport.
Feasibility is the chances that something has of becoming successful. A feasibility study is done to see if something is possible.
5. His party should be blamed for the political ……………………… in the country.
6. Work on the project cannot start until the planning authority gives ………………………… to the development.
Consent is the permission to do something.
7. We won`t be able to maintain our competitive advantage without …………………… this deal.
8. A series of financial blunders ………………………. in the collapse of one of the largest banking institutions in the world.
9. Man is ………………………; however, he needs mental companionship more than physical companionship.
Gregarious means sociable. Human beings are gregarious because they are fond of the company of others.
10. Susie`s decision to marry her best friend`s ex-boyfriend left me …………………… I couldn`t figure out why she should want to do it.
To leave someone nonplussed is to perplex them.
11. The journey took longer than we expected because the driver brought us by a …………………….. route.
A circuitous route is a roundabout route.
12. Students protested against school regulations that ………………. their social activities.
To circumscribe something is to limit it.
Answers
1. Meera was extremely angry but I assuaged her by promising to leave her house and never return.
2. More research needs to be done in how to reconcile conservation needs with growing demand for natural resources.
3. Forsaken by her friends, she lost all hope.
4. A feasibility study found the site suitable for building the airport.
5. His party should be blamed for the political stalemate in the country.
6. Work on the project cannot start until the planning authority gives consent to the development.
7. We won’t be able to maintain our competitive advantage without clinching this deal.
8. A series of financial blunders culminated in the collapse of one of the largest banking institutions in the world.
9. Man is gregarious; however, he needs mental companionship more than physical companionship.
10. Susie’s decision to marry her best friend`s ex-boyfriend left me nonplussed. I couldn’t figure out why she should want to do it.
11. The journey took longer than we expected because the driver brought us by a circuitous route.
12. Students protested against school regulations that circumscribed their social activities.
