500 word formation exercises for Advanced
500 word formation exercises
1. Many people often make a ________ between London and New York. COMPARE
2. This book ________ as a series of lectures about shipwrecks, which were given two ORIGIN
decades ago.
3. There are power stations across Europe that use the ________ rise and fall of the ocean DAY
tides.
4. If you weren't so ________ of Ben, he'd be happier to spend time with you. CRITIC
5. Don't you find it ________ how Jeremy always comes to work looking so untidy? INTRIGUE
6. Doctors say a glass of warm milk before bedtime can result in a more ________ night's REST
sleep.
7. Tim-Berners Lee has received many awards as the ________ of the world wide web. INVENT
8. On the final day, we visited the ________ Victoria Falls and then flew home. MAJESTY
9. The book, like the movie, tracks the anxiety and ________ pains of a teenager in 1970s GROW
Germany.
10. This wine has a very fruity flavour to it and a ________ after-taste. I really like it. PLEASE
11. I've lost all ________ for this concert, I'm finding it boring. Can we go? ENTHUSE
12. The opening of this new restaurant should satisfy the ________ of local Indonesian food SOPHISTICATED
fans.
13. You don't respond well to positive ________, which is only made to help you. CRITIC
14. ________ as it may seem, mammoths were alive only five thousand years ago. CREDIBLE
15. Large spiders, ________ from South East Asia, are now being seen in the local countryside. ORIGIN
16. Collecting garden gnomes might seem an unusual ________, but many people do it. ACTIVE
17. Professor Watkins wasn't only an ________ to me, but to thousands of others lucky INSPIRE
enough to have met him.
18. For someone so young, Carl is a very literate and ________ young man. ELOQUENCE
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500 word formation exercises for Advanced
19. The new year ________ in this area of the country involve dancing and a drink made from CELEBRATE
melons.
20. The ________ of the Rubik's Cube peaked in the early 1980s. POPULAR
21. This musician's work is very ________ and difficult to understand. Many people say it is CONCEPT
just noise.
22. Tom ________ told us he wasn't coming, then he turns up with two guests! I'm furious INITIAL
with him.
23. Though expensive, the ________ tour we took in Jerusalem was worth every penny. GUIDE
24. ________, local police are saying the people they see sleeping on the streets have mental INCREASE
issues.
25. The Lavet Institute fights against ________ in movies and literature. CENSOR
26. The true ________ of spoken language remain an area of fierce debate. ORIGINAL
27. The two families fell out after Mr. Dawson said Caroline wouldn't be a ________ wife for SUIT
his son.
28. It is the bride's father who has ________ paid for a wedding. TRADITION
29. I had a ________ night's sleep. My back was hurting and the storm outside made such a REST
noise.
30. The Age of Enlightenment was one of great inventions and revolutionary ________. DISCOVER
31. The judge was forced to acquit, saying the evidence was wholly ________. CONCLUDE
32. The ________ of the opening of the new bridge continued until nearly midnight. CELEBRATE
33. Harry Stevens is the man most often credited as being the ________ of the hot dog. CREATE
34. Can you think of one ________ reason why I should give you your job back? SOLITUDE
35. That the Vikings had horns in their helmets is a common ________. CONCEPT
36. Local officials were surprised at the scale of the ________ against plans for a local casino. CRY
37. I agree with the sentiments so ________ expressed in David's wonderful speech. ELOQUENCE
38. It was quite recently that human ________ was first captured on camera. CONCEIVE
