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This test is based on the video 50 Power Words taught via video posted on Fluentlingua YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/mQqmXvrfFEM

1. It will be good for you if you _____ from smoking. *

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a) abscond

b) absorb

c) abstain

2. Some dishonest traders _____ products to make more profit. *

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a) adulterate

b) underate

c) aerate

3. We might need a celebrity to _____ a noble cause. *

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a) advocate

b) calculate

c) regulate

4. We hate some politicians’ _____ towards public. *

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a) appear

b) apathy

c) appal

5. One doesn’t expect a child to be too _____ and do something foolish. *

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a) audible

b) aural

c) audacious

6. Family support will _____ your morale. *

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a) bolster

b) booster

c) bolt

7. One has to deal with a lot of _____ to get official approval. *

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a) secrecy

b) bureaucracy

c) tendency

8. Motorcar horns blown together in large numbers creates a _____. *

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a) telephony

b) symphony

c) cacophony

9. A _____ boy will change his mind suddenly. *

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a) copy

b) capricious

c) copious

10. The police have now new evidence to _____ the defendant’s story. *

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a) correspond

b) corroborate

c) confiscate

11. Don’t _____ yourself and think your crime won’t be detected. *

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a) delude

b) deluge

c) delve

12. Everyone will _____ his misbehaviour. *

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a) derive

b) deride

c) demise

13. Their music was full of _____ and odd rhythms. Nobody liked it. *

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a) dissonance

b) disabuse

c) delusion

14. Working for long in the hot sun will _____ you eventually. *

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a) energise

b) enervate

c) enliven

15. World leaders failed to _____ trust in people. *

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a) engender

b) endanger

c) enrage

16. Whether the egg came first or the hen has been a common _____. *

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a) dogma

b) enigma

c) plasma

17. Many flowers have an _____ lifetime. *

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a) ephemeral

b) eternal

c) enamel

18. After years of teaching, the professor became _____ in philosophy. *

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a) expedite

b) erudite

c) elucidate

19. Students often greatly _____ their teachers in the year-end function. *

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a) eulogise

b) evaluate

c) enervate

20. Local leaders made a _____ public appeal to keep calm. *

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a) fevered

b) fervent

c) feared

21. The child was _____ enough to believe in ghosts. *

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a) gullible

b) sensible

c) plausible

22. Many prefer to live in a _____ society. *

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a) hormones

b) homogeneous

c) horrendous

23. Simple village folk invent _____ ways to solve their problems. *

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a) ingenuous

b) ingenious

c) incongruous

24. She doesn’t use many words; she gives a _____ response. *

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a) iconic

b) laconic

c) comic

25. You bowled well. Your last maiden over was _____. It saved the match. *

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a) laughable

b) laudable

c) lockable

26. People dislike and avoid him. They treat him like a _____ . *

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a) pariah

b) paraplegic

c) pensioner

27. Be practical; don’t be so _____ about such matters. *

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a) pedagogical

b) pedantic

c) pedestrian

28. The management did nothing to _____ the anger of the workers. *

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a) place

b) placate

c) plead

29. When faced with a problem, a _____ approach is useful in finding solutions. *

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a) pragmatics

b) pragmatic

c) pragmatist

30. Don’t _____ when a lawyer asks questions in the court. *

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a) prevaricate

b) propagate

c) confiscate

31. There is a story of a _____ son in the Bible. He wasted his share of the money. *

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a) prodigal

b) frugal

c) paralegal

32. His behaviour often lacks a sense of _____. He must learn social etiquette. *

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a) property

b) propriety

c) priority

33. After working for long hours, a break was a welcome _____. *

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a) despite

b) respite

c) spite

34. Though he is a superstar, he is a quiet, _____ man. Everyone likes his humility. *

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a) self-erasing

b) self-imposing

c) self-effacing

35. After playing for a long time in the hot weather, the players will be _____. *

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a) energetic

b) perfectionist

c) lethargic

36. Nobody likes to work under a _____ leader who keeps talking all the time. *

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a) gracious

b) loquacious

c) conscious

37. We couldn’t make sense of his speech. It wasn’t _____ at all. *

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a) lucid

b) lactic

c) listless

38. A _____ substance can be changed into a new shape easily. *

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a) mendable

b) sealable

c) malleable

39. He just can’t stand people; he hates them. He is a _____. *

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a) misanthrope

b) misdemeanour

c) misandry

40. We should grow more trees to _____ the environmental effects of industrial pollution. *

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a) create

b) mitigate

c) derogate

41. The glass window was _____ so I couldn’t see through it. *

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a) oblique

b) opal

c) opaque

42. Instead of having a simple marriage function, they went for an _____ display of wealth. *

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a) contemtuous

b) conspicious

c) ostentatious

43. It is a ……………… that he is a doctor and is afraid of an injection. *

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a) parable

b) paradigm

c) paradox

44. I like shopping but I _____ a lot when it comes to buying things for others. *

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a) vacillate

b) violate

c) vindicate

45. Trading in stock markets needs a lot of attention. The share prices are _____ at times. *

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a) violent

b) volatile

c) versatile

46. _____ liquor can cause death. *

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a) furious

b) spurious

c) rigorous

47. A large population of a country may leave a _____ of unemployed people. *

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a) forfeit

b) surfeit

c) surface

48. Bedtime stories after a while become _____ for children. *

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a) tried

b) tired

c) trite

49. We ought to _____ our soldiers. *

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a) venerate

b) generate

c) obliterate

50. He has a lot of _____ for helping the needy. *

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a) reel

b) zeal

c) appeal

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