TEST YOUR ADVANCED LEVEL OF ENGLISH USAGE!

TRY TO DIFFERENTIATE EACH MEANING COMPARED TO OTHERS AS ONE OF THEIR SYNONYMS

1. Abolish: put an end to an institution, practice or system
2. Abrogate: put an end to a law, right or agreement
3. Annul: declare officially invalid
4. Annihilate: remove existence with nothing left
5. Nullify: declare no use of
6. Rescind: take back an order or agreement
7. Repeal: take back a law or act
8. Revoke: take back a decision or promise
9. Retract: withdraw a statement
10. Erase: remove a mark
11. Efface: remove a mark from surface
12. Extirpate: destroy completely
13. Expunge: remove completely
14. Eradicate: destroy disease completely
15. Eliminate: remove a danger completely.
16. Countermand: make an order void
17. Cancel: make something not take place
18. Cancel out: make an effect void
19. Invalidate: prove erroneous
20. Obliterate: remove existence completely
21. Quash: make valid by a legal way
22. Squash: make useless by making out of shape
23. Do away with: put an end
24. Close down: put a permanent end
25. Shut down: put a temporary end

FILL IN THE BLANKS WITH THE BEST CONCISELY USED WORDS IN MEANING AND GRAMMAR

1. This type of wolf has been __________ about a century ago.
2. Such a painful memory should be ____________.
3. He tried ____________smoking with playing sports.
4. Her technical flaw in the speech could ___________ the nomination.
5. The opposite party has campaigned ___________ the government decision.
6. The election results have been _____________ by the parliament.
7. I think this legislation is about to _____________in a few months.
8. The death sentence was __________ owing to his appeal.
9. Protesters asked the government ____________the nuclear plant
10. ______________racism is their goal in the long run.
11. No directive has been _______________ since his office inauguration.
12. She was unwilling _________________ the allegation.
13. There is no evidence to see that the arrest of these strike leaders would be ____________.
14. ______________the cans is a way to depose them.
15. I remember that tax has been _______________for a long time.
16. The right to strike is hardly _____________in modern life.
17. Reading a book can help him ___________the bad memories.
18. Malaria is hardly _____________in the world.
19. Who are in the board deciding ______________ the food processing section?
20. Only one bomb can ______________this city.
21. No country has ever completed _______________ homelessness.
22. They tried their best to get his conviction ___________on appeal.
23. These words will be _________ by the rain.
24. They have ___________ the graffiti from the wall.

ANSWERS:

1. Extirpate
2. Obliterate
3. Cancel out
4. Invalidate
5. Nullify
6. Annul
7. Repeal
8. Revoke
9. Close down
10. Do away with
11. Rescind
12. Retract
13. Countermand
14. Squash
15. Abolish
16. Abrogate
17. Expunge
18. Eradicate
19. Shut down
20. Annihilate
21. Eliminate
22. Quash
23. Efface
24. Erase