Combined: Vocabulary for the CAE + CAE VOCABULARY

Question 1

The situation does pose a rather ______ challenge, but we will not be put off.

Accepted Answer

DAUNTING

Question 2

Choose the INCORRECT collocation: ______ SUCCESS

Accepted Answer

TERRIBLE

Question 3

Something 'straightforward' is...

Accepted Answer

something easy to understand

Question 4

Taking on the Cup holders was no easy task, but they rose ____ the challenge and drew 1-1.

Accepted Answer

TO

Question 5

Choose the INCORRECT collocation: ______ FAILURE

Accepted Answer

URGENT

Question 6

He achieved ______ for failing a drugs test after winning an Olympíc final.

Accepted Answer

NOTORIETY

Question 7

Management criticized the unions for their stubborn attitude and ____in the wage negotiations.

Accepted Answer

INFLEXIBILITY

Question 8

To be slightly hungry is the same as...

Accepted Answer

to be peckish

Question 9

A synonym of 'handy' is...

Accepted Answer

useful

Question 10

The right VERB + NOUN Collocation: IGNORE, LOOK INTO, OVERLOOK or RULE OUT

Accepted Answer

a possibility

Question 11

A 'foul' smell is a...

Accepted Answer

very unpleasant, disgusting smell

Question 12

Pay something 'in instalments' means...

Accepted Answer

to pay a sum of money in a fixed period of time

Question 13

Something 'misleading' is something that...

Accepted Answer

tends to confuse or mislead; deceptive

Question 14

Union leaders have not ruled _____ the possibility of taking strike action.

Accepted Answer

OUT

Question 15

Choose the INCORRECT collocation: ______ CHANCE

Accepted Answer

INSIDE

Question 16

The government is concerned at the number of unfilled ____in the nursing profession.

Accepted Answer

VACANCIES

Question 17

The right VERB + NOUN Collocation: DETECT, GET RID OF, GIVE OFF or LEAVE

Accepted Answer

a smell

Question 18

His consistently low marks seem to be both the result and the cause of ___ motivation.

Accepted Answer

POOR

Question 19

'to overhear' means...

Accepted Answer

To hear something without the speaker's awareness or intent

Question 20

What of the following adverbs is a synonym of 'extravagantly, richly, in a luxurious manner'

Accepted Answer

Lavishly

Question 21

'to munch' means...

Accepted Answer

to eat something, especially noisily

Question 22

Which two identifiers mean 'completely'?

Accepted Answer

utterly, wholly

Question 23

The right VERB + NOUN Collocation: BRING ABOUT, CALL FOR, COPE WITH or RESIST.

Accepted Answer

change

Question 24

Their solar panel business ran ___problems after a succession of wet summers in the mid-1990s.

Accepted Answer

INTO

Question 25

Choose the INCORRECT collocation: ______ ACHIEVEMENT

Accepted Answer

OUTLYING

Question 26

What's the meaning of the verb 'compile'?

Accepted Answer

To collect information & arrange it in a book, report list.

Question 27

Choose the INCORRECT collocation: ______ PROBLEM

Accepted Answer

RESOUNDING

Question 28

'Ransom money' is...

Accepted Answer

money demanded for the return of a captured person.

Question 29

There is a chronic ________of housing in our cities.

Accepted Answer

SHORTAGE

Question 30

"He has been '_______' on his rent so often that he may be evicted."

Accepted Answer

in arrears

Combined: Vocabulary for the CAE + CAE VOCABULARY

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Combined: Vocabulary for the CAE + CAE VOCABULARY

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