MULTIPLE CHOICE TEST/WHICH MEANING BEST REPLACES EACH OF THE GIVEN WORDS?

1. Get over

1. Overcome
2. Determine
3. Reprimand
4. Jeorpadize

2. Go over

1. Spurn
2. Raid
3. Churn
4. Check

3. Look over

1. Estimate
2. Examine
3. Effectuate
4. Elicit

4. Gloss over

1. Postpone
2. Weasel
3. Reshuffle
4. Avoid

5. Pass over

1. Disseminate
2. Disregard
3. Ostracize
4. Punctuate

ANSWERS: 1. a 2. d 3.b 4. d 5. b

6. Flip through

1. Look quickly
2. Read quickly
3. Say quickly
4. Ask quickly

7. Skim through

1. Run quickly
2. Strike quickly
3. Understand quickly
4. Arrest quickly

8. Browse through

1. Read curiously
2. Look curiously
3. Learn curiously
4. Pay quickly

ANSWER: 6. a 7. c 8. b

9. Leaf through

1. Turn page to page
2. Cut page by page
3. Lift load by load
4. Learn word by word

10. Riffle through

1. Sell quickly
2. Steer quickly
3. Search quickly
4. Satirize quickly

11. Glance through

1. Build quickly
2. Beat quickly
3. Read quickly
4. Eat quickly

ANSWERS: 9. a 10. c 11. c

12. Get through

1. Assist to move faster
2. Assist to live better
3. Assist to overcome faster
4. Assist to keep safer

13. Live through

1. Survive hardship
2. Survive misery
3. Survive trouble
4. All are correct

14. Go through

1. Experience
2. Expect
3. Expire
4. Expend

15. Run through

1. Spend quickly
2. Work quickly
3. Operate quickly
4. All are correct

16. Pass through

1. Move around
2. Move on
3. Move out
4. Move in

ANSWERS: 12. c 13. d 14. a 15. d 16. a

17. Take five

1. Have a minute report
2. Have a minute break
3. Have a minute note
4. Have a minute survey

18. Take a break

1. Stop working
2. Stop learning
3. Stop telling
4. All are correct

19. Have a timeout

1. Have a short explanation
2. Have a short notice
3. Have a short story
4. Have a short rest

20. Come up for air

1. Disrespect
2. Discord
3. Discontinue
4. Distend

ANSWERS: 17. b 18. d 19. d 20. c

21. Break off

1. Stop working suddently
2. Stop moving suddently
3. Stop saying suddenly
4. All are correct

22. Break away

1. Stop connection
2. Stop integration
3. Stop combination
4. All are correct

23. Break free

1. Free to leave
2. Forced to leave
3. Furtive to leave
4. b and c are correct

24. Cut loose

1. Leave to fight
2. Leave to oppose
3. Leave to cooperate
4. Leave to be oneself

25. Split from

1. Leave to fight
2. Leave to oppose
3. Leave to cooperate
4. Leave to grow

26. Pull out

1. Leave a duty
2. Leave an office
3. Leave a book
4. Leave a trace

ANSWERS: 21. d 22. b 23. d 24. d 25. d 26. a

27. Close one’s eyes to

1. Ignore in pretense
2. Ignore by mistake
3. Ignore by accident
4. Ignore out of sudden

28. Look the other way

1. Intentionally ignore
2. Pretentiously ignore
3. Suspiciously ignore
4. All are correct

29. Turn a blind eye to

1. Audaciously ignore
2. Suddenly ignore
3. Presumably ignore
4. All are correct

30. Turn a deaf ear to

1. Easily ignore
2. Denially ignore
3. Contently ignore
4. a and b are correct

ANSWERS: 27. a 28. d 29. d 30. d