Circle A, B, C or D that most accurately fits the meaning and check your answers with the key.
1. Corroborate
A. to refuse
B. to affirm
C. to yield
D. to confirm
2. Designate
A. to record
B. to enlarge
C. to indicate
D. to eradicate
3. Aerate
A. to abbreviate
B. to ventilate
C. to expose
D. to apply
4. Extenuate
A. to mitigate
B. to draw
C. to remember
D. to forget
5. Deprecate
A. to lower the quality
B. to disapprove
C. to be modest
D. to dismiss
6. Obliterate
A. to annoy
B. to narrate
C. to destroy
D. to organise
7. Perforate
A. to make even
B. to separate
C. to stick together
D. to pierce
8. Remonstrate
A. to protest
B. to reject
C. to support
D. to win
9. Fulminate
A. to progress
B. to denounce
C. to apply
D. to take out
10. Expropriate
A. to banish
B. to recover
C. to dispossess
D. to submit
11. Emanate
A. to imitate
B. to evolve
C. to create
D. to originate
12. Dehydrate
A. to remove water from
B. to expand
C. to shrink
D. to reduce
13. Eradicate
A. to appoint
B. to uproot
C. to scatter
D. to abolish
14. Litigate
A. to satisfy
B. to bargain
C. to contest
D. to punish
15. Reciprocate
A. to summarise
B. to welcome
C. to reconcile
D. to exchange mutually
16. Equivocate
A. to speak evasively
B. to speak boldly
C. to be fair-minded
D.to be undecided
17. Rehabilitate
A. to resettle
B. to restore usefulness
C. to banish
D. to adjust
18. Deviate
A. to prevent
B. to divide
C. to turn aside
D. to collect
19. Commiserate
A. to pity
B. to authorise
C. to be grateful
D. to forgive
20. Abrogate
A. to fail
B. to cross-examine
C. to nullify
D. to plead
Key
1. D
2. C
3. B
4. A
5. B
6. C
7. D
8. A
9. B
10. C
11. D
12. A
13. B
14. C
15. D
16. A
17. B
18. C
19. A
20. C
Ratings
10 – 14 Correct:
Good
15 – 17 Correct:
Excellent
18 – 20 Correct:
Exceptional