Advanced vocabulary exercise 4
✓ Useful for TOEFL
✓ Useful for Cambridge B2/C1
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Words like scrupulously, paramount, and temperament are advanced not just in meaning, but in spelling too, and the two are usually connected. Longer, more sophisticated words tend to come from Latin and Greek roots, which brings less predictable spelling patterns than everyday English vocabulary.
In IELTS and TOEFL writing, a misspelled advanced word can cost you twice: once for the spelling error itself, and again if it makes the examiner doubt whether you actually know what the word means. Getting familiar with how these words are built, prefix, root, suffix, makes both the spelling and the meaning easier to hold onto at the same time.
In IELTS and TOEFL writing, a misspelled advanced word can cost you twice: once for the spelling error itself, and again if it makes the examiner doubt whether you actually know what the word means. Getting familiar with how these words are built, prefix, root, suffix, makes both the spelling and the meaning easier to hold onto at the same time.
Complete each of the following sentences using one of these words: discord, vow, temperament, surmount, paramount, fluctuate, savvy, obsolete, scrupulously, onset
1. The news caused (= disagreement) in the family.✓
2. Rumor has it that the CEO will publicly (= promise) to fight corruption within the company.✓
3. Unlike his brother, Robert had an easy-going .✓
4. These difficulties might be impossible to . ( = overcome)✓
5. The health of the workers is of (= the highest) importance to us.✓
6. The price of gas tends to quite a bit.✓
7. My grandfather was quite when it came to fixing cars.✓
8. That product is . = No one uses that product anymore.✓
9. He examined the documents . (= very carefully)✓
10. The ( = arrival/beginning) of winter took us all by surprise.✓
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