WiP Mixed Bag 73_h

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 5

Words in Progress

Mixed Bag 73

As expected, most members were not happy with the minister's new plan and it received a ........ reception

1. moist
2. lukewarm
3. peculiar
4. surprised

We stayed on the beach, enjoying the beautiful ...... until the sun had sunk below the horizon.

1. revelations
2. subscription
3. twilight
4. encounter

Warm and even slightly ..... kitchen cloths are the ideal breeding ground for microbes

1. ethnic
2. wrinkled
3. moist
4. lukewarm

Poles are the second biggest ...... minority in Britain, official population figures revealed this morning.

1. wrinkled
2. heeded
3. juxtaposes
4. ethnic

The burglars who ..... the shop were caught on camera and later arrested

1. heeded
2. ransacked
3. observations
4. surprised

He decided to renew his ....... to The Economist.

1. subscription
2. encounter
3. twilight
4. poses

The inhabitants of the seaside resort ........ advice to stock up on food and water and wait inside for the storm to pass.

1. visualise
2. heeded
3. ransacked
4. detected

In summer the Mongolian nomads ...... in tents

1. visualise
2. poses
3. heeded
4. dwell

The chief had a leathery, ........ face and he must have been at least eighty years old.

1. lukewarm
2. moist
3. wrinkled
4. ethnic

He thought he would never ....... a tiger so close to the village

1. heeded
2. encounter
3. poses
4. visualise

Yusuf Islam is a British singer-songwriter, ....... known as Cat Stevens.

1. peculiar
2. heeded
3. surprised
4. formerly

The documentary ...... two sides of the famous actor, both positive and negative.

1. juxtaposes
2. poses
3. revelations
4. visualise

The majority of drugs that athletes use can be ...... in samples of urine.

1. moist
2. detected
3. heeded
4. visualise

I was very ..... when my favourite film did not get any Academy Awards.

1. peculiar
2. ransacked
3. surprised
4. wrinkled

Plastic junk ........ the biggest threat to our oceans.

1. revelations
2. poses
3. dwell
4. juxtaposes

Opium has a ...... smell and a bitter taste.

1. ethnic
2. moist
3. lukewarm
4. peculiar

It's not easy to ...... a world without computers, but let's try anyway.

1. visualise
2. encounter
3. poses
4. twilight

....... of state-sponsored doping led to the suspension of fifteen athletes.

1. observations
2. ransacked
3. revelations
4. heeded

After he had made some general ......... , he explained the subject to us in detail.

1. observations
2. poses
3. revelations
4. surprised

There are a lot of countries in which ........ people are discriminated against and even persecuted.

1. lukewarm
2. gay
3. formerly
4. wrinkled