Question
ENGLISH IS FUNI 11 & 12
Question 26 Adjectives
Use the most suitable word in the column on the right to replace the words in brackets in each
statement on the left.
a. Mrs Jones is (very careful in matters of taste, perhaps even overdoing it).
b. We love the local steakhouse because it has a special (atmosphere).
c. The new rose manure is (producing the desired effect).
d. She is a very (greedy and selfish) person.
e. After his long illness, Barney was (abnomally thin and feeble).
abstinent
abstruse
acrimonious
ambience
f. It is uncertain whether he was born (with a bitter manner) or became so later covetous
in life.
emaciated
g. After winning the beauty contest, Bianca was (in the seventh heaven).
h. The manager admitted that, like all people, he is (capable of making
mistakes).
i. After being cured of alcoholism, he is rigidly (does not drink alcohol at all).
j. Idon'tmind gentle chit-chat, but a (very talkative) person gets on my nerves.
k. The treatise was written in a very (which is hard to understand) manner
1. At present the mountain pass is (cannot be traversed).
m. The patient was (in a coma).
n. You are wasting your breath as she is (not responsive to argument).
o. The (sensible and prudent) response is to ignore his taunts completely.
efficacious
euphoric
fallible
fastidious
garrulous
impassable
comatose
impervious
judicious
Answer
a. fastidious
b. ambience
c. efficacious
d. acrimonious
e. emaciated
f. covetous
g. euphoric
h. fallible
i. abstinent
j. garrulous
k. abstruse
l. impassable
m. comatose
n. impervious
o. judicious