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    METU / SFL Spring 2023

    DBE
    Vocabulary Practice 1 ADVANCED GROUP
    (Instructor’s Copy)

    VOCABULARY
    I. Mark the best choice.

    1. The research team is working on a project to prevent bacteria from becoming more _______________
    to antibiotics.
    a) staple
    b) resistant
    c) evident
    d) prone
    e) precise

    2. The project is expected to improve quality and safety standards for human organ ________________
    and transplantation.
    a) donation
    b) production
    c) aviation
    d) investigation
    e) opposition

    3. The theatre managed to _______________ its audiences by cutting ticket prices.


    a) cultivate
    b) irrigate
    c) boost
    d) release
    e) absorb

    4. Some people believe that certain foods _______________ their headaches.


    a) pioneer
    b) order
    c) engineer
    d) register
    e) trigger

    5. Language is used to communicate; that is, to ________________ and receive messages.


    a) recede
    b) protest
    c) harness
    d) convey
    e) insist

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    6. As rescue workers opened up the roads, it became apparent that some small towns were totally
    _______________.

    a) informed
    b) multiplied
    c) absorbed
    d) devastated
    e) extracted

    7. Traditionally, vaccines use living or killed forms of an organism to _______________ the production of
    antibodies which protect the person from infection.

    a) demonstrate
    b) claim
    c) launch
    d) necessitate
    e) stimulate

    8. The Fashion Design program is designed for students wishing to _______________ a career in the
    exciting field of fashion design.

    a) soar
    b) infect
    c) pursue
    d) face
    e) vary

    9. The accident at the nuclear power plant resulted in the _______________ of radioactivity into the
    atmosphere.

    a) denial
    b) disease
    c) release
    d) sequence
    e) revolution

    10. Most parents believe that success in school can create a more _______________ future for their
    children.

    a) promising
    b) isolated
    c) inquiring
    d) informed
    e) prone

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    11. Geothermal energy is a way to _______________ electricity from heat stored deep in the Earth.

    a) damage
    b) donate
    c) devastate
    d) generate
    e) resemble
    12. During organ transplantation, organs need to be kept functioning while being quickly transplanted
    from one person to another. The surgery itself is also complex because all transplanted organs are
    under the risk of _______________ by the recipient’s body.

    a) emission
    b) rejection
    c) impression
    d) revolution
    e) irrigation

    13. In many countries today only a _______________ minority get the chance of going to university.

    a) privileged
    b) modified
    c) pessimistic
    d) resembling
    e) rebellious

    14. The employment _______________ for graduates in computer science are excellent.

    a) yields
    b) findings
    c) footprints
    d) prospects
    e) donations

    15. Better _______________ of soil will bring about better crops.

    a) cultivation
    b) revolution
    c) devastation
    d) stimulation
    e) equation

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    II. For each item, mark the alternative that is closest in meaning to, or gives the correct definition of
    the given word.
    1. INQUIRING
    a) diagnostic
    b) questioning
    c) disinterested
    d) valid
    e) rational
    2. ISOLATE
    a) come between
    b) have as part of
    c) bring to an end
    d) keep together
    e) detach or separate
    3. PIONEER
    a) a person under legal age of maturity
    b) a person ranking next after the head chef
    c) a person who is one of the first people to do something
    d) a person whose job is to study a subject carefully
    e) a person who is being trained for a job
    4. HARNESS
    a) control something, usually in order to use its power
    b) remove or send forward
    c) give permission to or for something
    d) pay no or little attention to something
    e) start to be seen or be present
    5. PRONE
    a) straight
    b) improbable
    c) ready
    d) likely
    e) guarded

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