Elevation Academics
English Review #1
Match the word to its meaning.
1. ______________________
emigrate
2. ______________________
immigrate
3. ______________________
elicit
4. ______________________
illicit
5. ______________________
eminent
6. ______________________
imminent
7. ______________________
accede
8. ______________________
exceed
9. ______________________
concede
10. ______________________
precede
11. ______________________
proceed
There are six (6) blank spaces in the passage below, choose the correct answer and write its letter in
the bracket provided.
Mrs. Smith awoke one Sunday morning and found her three ___________ watch dogs dead. There
were blood, vomit and excreta around the dogs. With tears streaming down her eyes, she called the
___________ and reported the mass ___________ of her dogs. She ___________ that robber or
robbers had fed her dogs with food ___________with poison in order to get ___________ of the
dogs to rob her house.
1.
a. friendly
b. beautiful
c. pet
d. ferocious
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2.
a. bandits
b. owners
c. police
d. airforce
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3.
a. abandon
b. detection
c. slaughter
d.
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4.
a. believed
b. suspected
c. thought
d. certified
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5.
a. spiked
b. cooked
c. prepared
d. free
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6.
a. even
b. advantaged
c. rid
d. accustomed
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exodus
Full Stops and Capitals
Re-write the following putting in full stops and capital letters.
Erica collects shells from the shores of rivers, seas, lakes, and streams sometimes she finds
shells in dry places that used to be under water most of the shells that she collects belongs
to a group of animals known as molluscs Snakes, clams and oysters are molluscs
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Circle the word that is OPPOSITE in meaning to the word in CAPITAL.
EXACT
9. BRAVERY
17. CONTRACT
a. correct
a. willingness
a. expand
b. inaccurate
b. desire
b. shrink
c. precise
c. cowardice
c. change
d. final
d. stupidity
d. build
HOSTILE
10. COARSE
18. TEMPORARY
a. steady
a. rude
a. permanent
b. sleepy
b. fine
b. transient
c. tired
c. rough
c. immediate
d. friendly
d. easy
d. necessary
POLITE
11. GENEROUS
19. DISPERSE
a. discourteous
a. selfish
a. scatter
b. fine
b. liberal
b. assemble
c. nice
c. kind
c. stagnant
d. refined
d. cruel
d. ripple
KNOWLEDGE
12. SUMMIT
20. BARREN
a. plan
a. peak
a. dry
b. ignorance
b. base
b. moist
c. clue
c. side
c. leafy
d. information
d. vertex
d. fertile
VETERAN
13. NATURAL
21. DESPAIR
a. expert
a. god-made
a. hope
b. experienced
b. pure
b. fear
c. professional
c. heavenly
c. wonder
d. novice
d. synthetic
d. longing
PROSE
14. SUCCESSOR
22. ABRUPT
a. language
a. junior
a. sudden
b. accent
b. predecessor
b. expected
c. verse
c. senior
c. harsh
d. lyrics
d. employer
d. uncertain
PLEASANT
15. URBAN
23. DEFENDANT
a. favourable
a. residential
a. plaintiff
b. obnoxious
b. rural
b. lawyer
c. amusing
c. crowded
c. juror
d. harmful
d. populated
d. judge
CLEVER
16. CAPTIVITY
24. URGENT
a. crafty
a. sin
a. kind
b. astute
b. savagery
b. important
c. inexperienced
c. fear
c. unimportant
d. foolish
d. freedom
d. accident
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