English Vocabulary in Use: Advanced Book with Answers and Enhanced eBook Vocabulary Reference and Practice 3rd Edition

 
vividly 
B
 
strongly 
C
 
utterly 
D
 
heavily
Choose the most suitable collocation in these sentences. The word you choose should 
have the approximate meaning given in brackets. Use a dictionary if necessary.
1 A 
brisk 
/
 brusque 
/
 brash
walk before breakfast helps to 
enforce 
/
 sharpen 
/
 grow
the appetite. 
(quick and energetic; increase, make stronger)
2 The death 
tally 
/
 tale 
/
 toll
in the earthquake has now risen to 20,000. (number or total)
3 Let’s take a 
sluggish 
/
 plodding 
/
 leisurely
stroll along the beach, shall we? (slow and not energetic)
4 If you want to stay at home tonight, that’s 
utterly 
/
 perfectly 
/
 blatantly
OK with me. 
(completely, 100%)
5 My aunt 
bequeathed 
/
 bequested 
/
 bereaved
£20,000 in her will to cancer research. (gave after 
her death)
6 If I remember 
rightly 
/
 keenly 
/
 fairly
, she had two brothers, both older than her. (correctly)
7 If you want information about the publisher of this book, you can 
accede 
/
 call 
/
 visit
their website 
at www.cambridge.org. (consult, look at)
8 Eating all those peanuts has 
spoilt 
/
 attacked 
/
 lowered
my appetite. I don’t feel like dinner now. 
(destroyed, decreased)
Which collocation is more likely? Choose the correct answer.
1 a strong car / a powerful car
2 strong tea / powerful tea
3 auburn hair / an auburn carpet
4 a doleful party / a doleful expression
5 a lengthy room / a lengthy meeting