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Luyện thi Olympic 30/4 - Word Formation

2014
Part 1:
1. The__________________ sports stadium is the pride of the city. (FUTURE)
2. She is one of those ___________________ people who never get angry or upset. (PERTURB)
3. Nadal has defeated his____________________ Ferrer in the quater final. (PATRIOTISM)
4. Salt water was more__________________ than fresh water. (BUOY)
5. His ____________________ injury put him out of contention for the championship. (CAPACITY)
6. She ____________________ the things we need to buy - sugar, tea and sandwiches. (NUMBER)
7. ____________________ , we should stay in a hostel instead of a hotel. (BUDGET)
8. The new BMW has a more powerful engine than its ____________________. (PRECEDE)
9. She ____________________ herself, left the farm and moved to London. (ROOT)
10. Many fish ____________________ protect their eggs from predators. (GENIUS)

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The whooping crane is a grand, (1) _________________ waterfowl native only to North America. It
s features are striking, as a mature whooping crane is all white and stands five feet tall with a wingspan of ab
out eight feet. Previously, wild flocks spent the warmer parts of the year in their native habitat of northern Ca
nada, and, around August, they made the 2,500-mile (2) _________________ journey to the gulf coast of Te
xas in the United States. Today, only one flock remains in the wild, and it consists of about one hundred and
fifty to two hundred whooping cranes. Continuing (3) _________________ efforts are attempting to increase
its populations, which face, as they traditionally have, a(n) (4) _________________ battle, by introducing ne
w habitats and educational methods of migration.
There are two major factors which (5) _________________ the decline of the whooping crane in the early tw
entieth century. First, they were (6) _________________ hunted by people for food as well as beautiful feath
ers, which were used for (7) _________________ purposes. Second, their natural habitat wetlands were begi
nning to dry up due to agricultural (8) _________________ and development. Thirdly, which perhaps had th
e most dramatic effect, was the fact that the eggs of the whooping crane were prized by collectors. Once the
eggs were pillaged from nests, future generations became placed even more in jeopardy. Fortunately, the wh
ooping crane, like other endangered species such as the bald eagle, (9) _________________ became a protec
ted species by federal law. The issue of how to increase their numbers back to comfortable levels, therefore,
has moved to the (10) _________________ of attention.

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2015
Part 1:
1. The planning authorities gave the school the ____________________ for an extension. (GO)
2. I want to make sure all my dependents will be financially secure if I'm ____________________ in any wa
y. (CAPACITY)
3. He is a bad manager in that factory and everyone is in an attempt to ____________________ him. (FAM
E)
4. The referee who will be ____________________ at this year's Club final is one of my relatives. (OFFICI
AL)
5. I was surprised by his ____________________ to break the law. (PREPARE)
6. It thrives in a vacuum of consumer information that might give everybody an ____________________ rea
son to go somewhere. (REFUSE)
7. She stood completely____________________, so I had no idea at all what she was thinking. (EXPRESSI
ON)
8. He worked hard to secure the interest of wealthy patrons. Such ____________________ enabled him to co
ncentrate on becoming a successful composer. (PATRON)
9. Children who grow up in time of war are more likely to be ____________________ than others. (ADJUS
T)
10. The years in isolation and adversity have deepened his _________________. (KNOW)

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Tourism, holidaymaking and travel are these days more significant social phenomena than most (1) _
___________________ have considered. Tourism is a leisure activity which (2) ____________________ its
opposite, namely regulated and organised work. It is one manifestation of how work and leisure are organise
d as separate and regulated spheres of social practice in modern societies. Indeed acting as a tourist is one of
the defining characteristics of being ‘modern’ and the popular (3) ____________________ of tourism is that
it is organised within particular places and occurs for (4) ____________________ periods of time. Tourist re
lationships arise from a movement of people to, and their stay in, various destinations. This (5) ___________
_________ involves some movement, that is the journey, and a period of stay in a new place or places. ‘The j
ourney and the stay’ are by definition outside the normal places of residence and work and are of a short ter
m and temporary nature and there is a clear intention to return ‘home’ within a relatively short period of time.
A (6) ____________________ proportion of the population of modern societies engages in such tour
ist practices new socialised forms of provision have developed in order to cope with the mass character of th
e gazes of tourists as opposed to the individual character of travel. Places are chosen to be visited and be gaz
ed upon because there is an anticipation especially through daydreaming and (7) ____________________ of
intense pleasures, either on a different scale or involving different senses from those (8) ________________
____ encountered. Such anticipation is constructed and sustained through a variety of (9) _______________
_____ practices such as films, TV literature, magazines records and videos which construct and (10) ______
______________ this daydreaming.

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2016
Part 1:
1. she became well-known as a consistent ____________________ of slavery (OPPOSE)
2. ___________________ is a list of errors in a printed work as a separate page of corrections, known as an e
rrata page (CORRECT)
3. Many scientists argue that dinosaurs developed extensive ____________________ passages with membra
nes to cool the skin surface. (NOSE)
4. Premature disclosure of the test sites might lead to ____________________ of the experiment. (VALID)
5. He became ____________________ in his opposition in the plan. He gave up his viewpoints after his boss
criticised. (RESOLVE)
6. He was returned to prison in 1977 for ____________________ a police officer (PERSON)
7. The soldiers have been ordered to ____________________ from firing the gun (INSIST)
8. I lingered in San Francisco, ____________________ myself after the hardships of the cruise, spending mo
ney, regretting it, continually promising departure for the morrow (DAMAGE)
9. One of the cars involved in the accident was a complete ____________________ (WRITE)
10. The work is marred by a number of typing and spelling errors, and would have benefited from stricter __
__________________ before submission (READ)

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Subversive political and social messages are a (1) ____________________ of the art community.
In most modern democratic nations, where free speech is considered an (2) ____________________ rig
ht, such subversive art is easily found. American film is an (3) ____________________ of this. Many
American films are openly critical of American society and its values. Apocalypse Now, a film about the Vie
tnam war, is a (4) ____________________ attack on America’s involvement and conduct in that conflict. In
a more modern setting, African-American film director Spike Lee makes films which depict America as a
racist and (5) ____________________ society. Other arts are filled with examples of subversive art as
well. There are countless paintings and sculptures which openly attack Christianity and other values whic
h are considered to be core aspects of America’s identity. Punk Rock, which originated in England, derided
many of England’s most sacred of social values. Most famously, the 1970s punk band the Sex Pistols freque
ntly sang songs about (6) ____________________ the government, even going so far as to describe the Quee
n of England as subhuman.
Not all subversive art is as (7) ____________________ in its social criticism. Much of subversive ar
t is (8) ____________________ subversive. There are a number of reasons for this. The first is, of course, ec
onomics. An artist who is too open or too vehement in his or her criticism of society may find it hard to find
an audience willing to pay for such art. In some societies there may be a fear of (9 ) _______________
_____, either by the government or by individual society members offended by the artist’s message. Nor are
such fears (10) ____________________. Author Salman Rushdie was forced to go into hiding after he wrote
a book that Muslims took to be critical of the religion. Therefore, the subversive messages in art are often hid
den.

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2017
Part 1:
1. He is _____________________ for his charitable activities than for his business in the steel industry. (KN
OW)
2. Our bodies are naturally __________________ by our organs of elimination- the skin, lungs, intestine, kid
neys and liver. (TOXIC)
3. He's such a _____________________ who always pretends to know everything. (INTELLECT)
4. She should take these ___________________ drugs to treat her state. (DEPRESS)
5. The audience was mesmerised by her clear and _________________ voice. (SOUND)
6. A number of local church leaders have acted as ____________________ with the people in the vicinity.
(GO)
7. The ban on firecrackers was __________________ introduced to reduce the number of accidents. (EXPR
ESS)
8. He sold the car to a __________________ who paid with a worthless stolen cheque. (TRICK)
9. It was ______________ for a new band to be offered such a deal. (HEAR)
10. John was arrested for smuggling _____________________ (BAN)

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The invention of the telegraph in 1843 (1) ______________ a new era in communication technology, the ele
ctronic era—so called because the telegraph used electrical signals to carry information along an electrical wi
re. The telegraph fed society’s (2) ______________ appetite for immediate access to information, and it prov
ided a foundation for (3) ______________ technologies: the telephone in 1876, the (4) ______________ - or
record player - in 1878, film and movies in the 1890s, radio in 1919, and television in 1925.
As with the earliest (5) ______________ books, radio technology was at first restricted to the educated few,
scientists and researchers, but later spread to the (6) ______________ society. By the 1930s, the middle class
es were listening to news, drama, comedy, and musical performances from thousands of miles away. Radio
was the first mass broadcast medium and, together with television a few decades later, it was responsible for
altering both the pattern and volume of information that flowed into people’s homes.
The invention of electronic media changed communication more than any other technological event since th
e development of writing. The spread of electronic media occurred with a (7) ______________ speed, thus
(8) ______________ commercial and social interaction. There was a tremendous shift in how people receive
d the information that contributed to their understanding of the world. Voices or pictures could create ideas t
hat (9) ______________ authentic—more so than ideas conveyed by the printed word. The graphic, intensel
y human nature of electronic media (10) ______________ the belief that if it was on the air, it had to be true.

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2018
Part 1:
1. To the ______________, most computer systems seem complex and difficult to understand (INITIATIVE)
2. The pieces of evidence fell into place with the ______________ precision of a well-made jigsaw puzzle.
(VOICE)
3. Parents have deep ______________ about allowing business values to be used in schools. (GIVE)
4. For many people, social networking offers them a feeling of ______________ from the real world. (ESCA
PE)
5. Not sick, Mai guessed, but probably ______________ now that she drank a lot at the party last night. (HA
NG)
6. The boats surrounded the whales, drove them into nets, where they became ______________ and were ren
dered helpless by harpoon thrusts. (MESH)
7. "P" is a ______________ consonant. (LIP)
8. Perhaps ______________, recent computer modelling studies predict fewer tropical cyclones if the ocean
heats up further as a result of global warming. (INTUITION)
9. New immigrants have been successfully______________ into the new community. (SIMILAR)
10. We have to learn good examples, to look at our behaviour and to stop being ______________. (RIGHT)

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William Sydney Porter (1862-1910), who wrote under the (1) ______________ of O. Henry, was bo
rn in North Carolina. His only formal education was to attend his Aunt Lina’s school until the age of fifteen,
where he developed his (2) ______________ love of books. By 1881 he was a (3) ______________ pharmac
ist. However, within a year, on the recommendation of a medical colleague of his Father’s, Porter moved to
La Salle County in Texas for two years herding sheep. During this time, Webster’s (4) ______________ Dict
ionary was his constant (5) ______________, and Porter gained a knowledge of ranch life that he later (6) __
____________ into many of his short stories. He then moved to Austin for three years, and during this time t
he first recorded use of his pseudonym appeared, (7) ______________ derived from his habit of calling “Oh,
Henry” to a family cat. In 1887, Porter married Athol Estes. He worked as a draftsman, then as a bank teller f
or the First National Bank.
In 1894 Porter founded his own humor weekly, the “Rolling Stone”, a venture that failed within a ye
ar, and later wrote a column for the Houston Daily Post. In the meantime, the First National Bank was exami
ned, and the (8) ______________ indictment of 1886 stated that Porter had embezzled funds. Porter then fle
d to New Orleans, and later to Honduras, leaving his wife and child in Austin. He returned in 1897 because o
f his wife’s continued (9) ______________, however she died six months later. Then, in 1898 Porter was fou
nd guilty and sentenced to five years imprisonment in Ohio. At the age of thirty five, he entered prison as a d
efeated man; he had lost his job, his home, his wife, and finally his freedom. He emerged from prison three y

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ears later, reborn as O. Henry, the pseudonym he now used to hide his true identity. He wrote at least twelve
stories in jail, and after (10) ______________ his freedom, went to New York City, where he published mor
e than 300 stories and gained fame as America’s favourite short Story writer. Porter married again in 1907, b
ut after months of poor health, he died in New York City at the age of forty-eight in 1910. O. Henry’s stories
have been translated all over the world.

2019
Part 1:
1. They were in search of ______________ archaeological remains. (DATE)
2. He always gets ______________ aggressive when he's drunk. (RESTRAIN)
3. The drop in share prices in March was a ______________ of the financial crash that followed in June. (R
UN)
4. She sang the first three verses with a piano and the last verse ______________. (COMPANY)
5. I really didn't mean to offend her - I just said it ______________. (THINK)
6. They were accused of ______________ in their treatment of the hostages. (HUMAN)
7. Alcohol is a ______________ factor in 10% of all road accidents. (CONTRIBUTE)
8. He had to face up to his own ______________ as a father. (ADEQUATE)
9. It was ______________ a step in the right direction. (QUESTION)
10. Hospital beds were scarce and the medicines were practically ______________. (EXIST)

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One of the most lethal poisons on Earth, ten thousand times more deadly than cyanide, is tetrodotoxi
n, more concisely known as TTX. Its potency is well known in East Asia, where it regularly kills (1) ______
________ who have braved the capricious (2) ______________ known as puffer fish. This toxin has a (3) __
____________ method of operation: twenty-five minutes after (4) ______________ , it begins to paralyze its
victims, leaving the victim fully aware of what is happening. Death usually results, within hours, from suffoc
ation or heart failure. There is no known antidote. If lucky patients can (5) ______________ the symptoms f
or twenty-four hours, they usually recover without further (6) ______________ . It is not an ordinary poison.
What is strange about its (7) ______________ is that it is found in such a wide range of creatures, from algae
to angelfish spanning entire kingdoms of life. It is rather unlikely that such an unusual toxin evolved (8) ___
___________ in so many unrelated animals. Marine biologists have discovered that the poison is produced b
y bacteria living in the gut of its host. The best explanation is that a symbiotic relationship exists between the
host and the (9) _____________________ guest, where microbes exchange poison for nutrients, providing a
valuable (10) ______________ weapon for its host.

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2021
Part 1:
1. The company’s publishing operations include business and consumer __________________. (PERIOD)
2. Yesterday the company __________________ a soaring 28 percent rise in profits for the year to Decembe
r. (VEIL)
3. Such changes are __________________ to even the best-trained eye. (PERCEIVE)
4. As soon as the meeting began, however, __________________ differences emerged. (RECONCILE)
5. The COVID-19 pandemic has been a catastrophe of __________________ dimensions for the whole worl
d.
(PRECEDE)
6. Her legs were __________________ by the very high heels which she wore. (LONG)
7. School officials hope the __________________ project can help both the teenagers and retired people.
(GENERATE)
8. Farmers are discouraged from applying __________________ chemicals nowadays. (INSECT)
9. Our __________________ trip covers everything during your trip abroad apart from travel insurance. (IN
CLUDE)
10. Not only large cities but also __________________ places have been badly affected by the Covid-19 out
break.
(FLING)

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Childhood self-esteem can overwhelm academic disadvantage or social (1) __________________ in

determining future earning power, according to major new research. There is now clear evidence that the (2)
__________________ of people who had higher self-esteem at age ten (3) __________________ those of th
eir peers whose academic performance was better at the same age. Bright children often have higher self-este
em, as do some from more affluent (4) __________________. But the study compared children from similar
families and still found that those who were psychologically well-balanced at ten were now (5) ___________
_______ their peers. The research also found, surprisingly, that it is not unusual for children to have high aca
demic achievement and low self-esteem, leading to significant later underperformance in the job market. A s
pokesman for the British Association for Counseling said:” (6) __________________ for children doesn't co
me only from crude parental hostility at home; it can just be (7) __________________ or the constant feeling
that they're making you tired. Children pick that up. Nor is it only (8) __________________ children who su
ffer. All too often you can ask affluent parents who the important people in their child's life are - teachers, fri
ends and so on - and they haven't a clue.”
Bearing out the findings of this research, many (9) __________________ successful entrepreneurs were (10)
__________________ academically when they were at school but had the advantage of supportive families.

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2023
Part 1:
1. Attracting __________________ immigrants has long boosted America’s fortunes. (VENTURE)
2. By maintaining a relatively large branch network citywide, the supermarket chain will always have to pay
high __________________ on an ongoing basis. (HEAD)
3. Whatever excuses or interpretations are made, soldiers from any side in a war commit ________________
__ against civilians. (ATROCIOUS)
4. The young children cheered when the __________________ of circus performers appeared at the far end o
f the street. (PROCEED)
5. The woman said that she would forgive the misunderstanding if the Tiktoker did a(n) ________________
__ over the recent exposé of food quality at her restaurant. (TURN)
6. To separate egg whites, first crack the egg __________________. (GINGER)
7. Your __________________ attitude toward juniors and their abilities really gets under my skin. (DESCE
ND)
8. Even after recovery, the flu can cause lingering __________________ fatigue and weakness. (VIRUS)
9. Some colour-blind people have a truly __________________ view of a world all in shades of grey. (CHR
OME)
10. Despite their initial __________________ about its impact, the students were eager to continue working
on the environmental project. (GIVE)

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The eureka moment that helped Masahiro Hara perfect the Quick Response, or QR code, sprang fro
m a lunchtime game of Go when the stones arranged on the board revealed the solution to a problem troublin
g the firm’s clients in Japan’s car industry - and which is now being (1) __________________ as a weapon i
n the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.
As an employee of the automotive components firm Denso Wave, Hara had been fielding requests fr
om factories to come up with a better way to manage their (2) __________________ of an ever-expanding ra
nge of parts. Workers wanted a less labour-intensive way to store more information, including kana and kanji
characters, but the barcodes then in use could hold only 20 or so alphanumeric characters of information eac
h. Having helped develop a barcode reader in the early 1980s, Hara knew the method had its (3) __________
________, despite its erstwhile merits. In some cases, a single box of components carried as many as 10 barc
odes that had to be read individually. And so the theory behind the QR code was born. Twenty-six years later ,
the two-dimensional patterns of tiny black and white squares, which can handle 200 times more information
than a standard barcode, have (4) __________________ the way we shop, travel and access websites. Since
2020 it has been deployed in everything, from customer check-ins at restaurants to digital menus and (5 ) ___
_______________ payments.
It was the development of smartphone cameras that brought the QR code into widespread use, with
(6) __________________ apps allowing people to quickly scan arrays of dots to access websites and claim d
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s could scan QR codes belonging to sick evacuees to make quick diagnoses and arrange for appropriate medi
cal care.
Denso Wave’s decision to keep the code’s patents open from the outset – in part to encourage other firms to
take the technology further – has fuelled its (8) __________________ and, this year, given health authorities
around the world a chance of (9) __________________ the virus’s spread. But its inventor – who named the
code on his birthday, 8 August – has no desire to occupy the limelight. “We don’t receive a commission each
time it’s used,” Hara (10) __________________ joked. “If only that were the case.”

Answer Keys
2014: 2. imperturbable 5. incapacitating

Part 1: 3. compatriot 6. enumerates

1. futuristic 4. buoyant 7. budget-wise

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8. predecessors 2016 Part 2:

9. uprooted Part 1: 1. signalled
10. ingeniously 1. opponent 2. insatiable
Part 2: 2. corrigendum 3. successive
1. migratory 3. nasal 4. phonograph
2. southerly 4. validation 5. handwritten
3. conservation 5. irresolute 6. greater
4. uphill 6. impersonating 7. unprecedented
5. underlay 7. desist 8. intensifying
6. originally 8. indemnifying 9. appeared
7. ornamental 9. wire-off 10. reinforce
8. exploitation 10. proofreading/proof-readin 2018
9. ultimately g Part 1:
10. forefront Part 2: 1. uninitiated
2015: 1. opponent 2. unequivocal
Part 1: 2. corrigendum 3. misgivings
1. go-ahead 3. nasal 4. escapism
2. decapacitated 4. validation 5. hungover
3. defame 5. irresolute 6. enmeshed
4. officiating 6. impersonating 7. bilabial
5. preparedness 7. desist 8. counter-intuitively
6. irrefutable 8. indemnifying 9. assimilated
7. expressionless 9. wire-off 10. self-righteous
8. patronage 10. proofreading/proof-readin Part 2:
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9. maladjusted 1. pseudonym
2017
10. self-knowledge 2. lifelong
Part 2: Part 1:
3. licensed
1. commentators 1. better-known
4. unabridged
2. presupposes 2. detoxified
5. companion
3. concept 3. pseudo-intellectual
6. incorporated
4. regularised 4. antidepressant
7. alleged
5. instrumentally 5. sonorous
8. subsequent
6. substantial 6. go-betweens
9. ill-health
7. fantasy 7. expressly
10. regaining
8. customarily 8. trickster
9. non-tourist 9. unheard-of
10. reinforce 10. contraband

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2019 Part 2:

Part 1: 1. deprivation

1. undated 2. earnings

2. unrestrained 3. outstrip

3. forerunner 4. backgrounds

4. unaccompanied 5. outperforming

5. unthinkingly 6. discouragement

6. inhumanity 7. resentment

7. contributory 8. underprivileged

8. inadequacy/inadequacies 9. spectacularly

9. unquestionably 10. outshone

10. non-existent 2023

Part 2: Part 1:
1. diners 1. venturesome
2. delicacy 2. overhead(s)
3. terrifying 3. atrocity
4. exposure 4. procession
5. withstand 5. about-turn
6. complications 6. gingerly
7. occurrence 7. condescending
8. independently 8. post-viral
9. unwelcome 9. monochromatic
10. defensive 10. misgivings

2021 Part 2:

Part 1: 1. repurposed

1. periodicals 2. inventories

2. unveiled 3. limitations

3. imperceptible 4. revolutionised

4. irreconcilable 5. contactless

5. unprecedented 6. in-built/built-in

6. elongated 7. aftermath

7. intergenerational 8. ubiquity

8. insecticidal 9. decelerating

9. all-inclusive 10. half

10. far-flung

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