Level: advanced
Category: vocabulary
Topic: word meanings

How's Your Vocabulary?

Do you know the meaning of these words and expressions? Answer the questions.

Example: 

1. If you dethrone a king, you:
   • remove him from his throne
   • remove his throne from the palace
   • given him a better throne
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3. If what someone says is nonsense, then:
   • he makes a lot of sense
   • he doesn't make any sense
   • he doesn't stop talking
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5. If you mislead someone, you:
   • lead him toward you
   • aren't telling him the truth
   • bring him to the wrong place
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7. An interstate highway goes from:
   • state to state
   • one place in a state to another place in the state
   • the capital of the state to the towns
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9. If you belittle someone's ideas, you:
   • make them seem very important
   • give them advice to make them better
   • make them seem less important
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11. If a person is homely, then:
    • he wants to go home
    • he's not very attractive
    • he doesn't have very much money
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13. The weather cannot be:
    • falling
    • springlike
    • wintery
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15. A pesticide kills mainly:
    • plants
    • bacteria
    • insects
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17. When we talk of the time, the letters AM, mean:
    • at morning
    • ante meridiem
    • all measured
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19. Which place is most closely related to a telescope:
    • a laboratory
    • an observatory
    • an airport
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Created:  2007-04-05
Updated:  2007-04-05

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