WORDFORM
Cards (99)
- 1. With increasing numbers of people choosing to teach English as a foreign language, the need to gain a(n) ________ (credit) qualification has never been more important.
- 2. A campaign is calling for the reversal of a decision to scrap A-level archaeology - saying it would cause _______(revoke) harm to the development of future archaeologists.
- 3. Sir Adrian was a true gentleman. He was ________ (fail) polite to everyone he met within the business and was on first name terms with many of them, regardless of where they worked.
- 4. An eight-month inquiry by the all party group on ________ (mind) found frontline public servants could be less likely to fall ill with stress, or quit altogether, if they engage in the increasingly popular meditation practice
- 5. ________ (absent) is an issue of growing concern among employers in the UK owing to changing legislation, but there is virtually no robust data on its direct or indirect costs.
- 6. A decision to allow ________ (hear) evidence in disciplinary proceedings against a doctor linked to child abuse claims was ________ (law).
- 7. Slavoj Žižek was born in communist Yugoslavia in 1949 and received a thorough grounding in Marxism and the principles of ________ (dialect) materialism.
- 8. Can you make up a(n) ________ (four) for tennis tomorrow?
- 9. These wonderful books ________ (capsule) moments in history in truly unforgettable ways .
- 10. Proposals to protect the right of mentally ________ (capacity) people to be involved in important decisions about their life have been published by the government.
- 11. Authorities in the US state of Michigan have charged a taxi driver with six counts of murder after he went on a random shooting spree on Saturday. Jason Brian Dalton, 45, remained ________ (express) as the charges were read in court on Monday.
- 12. Around 40% of jobseekers have been without work for more than one year, the report says, running "significant risks of ________ (moral), loss of self-esteem and mental health problems"
- 13. A former migrant has returned home to Senegal after becoming ________ (heart) with life as an illegal migrant in Spain. After six years, Babacar Dialor Faye never got his legal documents and had to live on ________ (hand) from the Red Cross.
- 14. Kids have become ________ (sense) to violence. Someone's been shot, and kids are playing up and down the streets on their bikes, because they're used to seeing it and that's also what you see in a war zone.
- 15. Parents often favour one child over another and, at its worst, parental________ (favour) can be one of the most profound and damaging emotional dynamics a child ever encounters. It can affect the rest of their lives.
- 16. When Emma was widowed in 1879, she decided to leave her home in Koblenz, Germany, to start ________ (new) in Glasgow, and settled in the city by 1881.
- 17. Anti-terrorism police patrol units are to be introduced across London boroughs. This tactic was endorsed by Lord Harris in his review of London's ________ (prepare) for a terror attack, commissioned by the mayor.
- 18. Reports of memory loss with long-term cannabis use are nothing new, and an influential paper published last year provided evidence that smoking marijuana has a(n) ________ (delete) effect on intelligence.
- 19. THC (tetrahydrocannabinol) is the primary psychoactive compound in cannabis and is what causes the subjective "high". This includes changes in ________ (perceive) sensations, a feeling of ________ (content) and increased appetite .
- 20. Cyanide ________ (toxic) is experienced by humans at doses of around 0.5-3.5 milligrams per kilogram of body weight .
- 21. She has become increasingly ________ (opinion) and verbalises her opinions forcefully without any insight into their effect on others.
- 23. ________ who want to fund the restoration of a derelict arts centre in Cheltenham have pleaded with other bidders to let it become community-run (benefit)
- 24. He was a bad influence on the child, who was at a(n) ________ (impress) age.
- 25. Membership talks were launched in 2005, but progress has been slow, as several EU states have serious ________ about Turkish EU membership. (give)
- 26. He has such great power and yet talked with such ________(humble). There aren't many people in politics who are as charismatic as President Obama.
- 27. For many people Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) is the most influential figure in the history of western classical music. His extraordinary talent was already clearly evident as a young man, ________ (mercy) surviving a somewhat unconventional upbringing during which his eccentric father would often force him to take music lessons in the middle of the night.
- 28. How often have you seen rich people take to the stress, shouting that they are earning too much? Protesters are typically blue-collar workers yelling that the minimum page has to go up, or that their jobs should not go overseas. Concern about ________ (fair) is always ________(symmetry), stronger in the poor than the rich. And the ________ (lie) emotions are not as ________(loft) as the ideal itself. Children become thoroughly________ (indignation) as the slightest discrepancy in, say, the size of their slice of pizza compared to their sibling's.
- 29. Many teachers expressed serious ________ (give) about the new tests.
- 30. The price of property in the city is ________ (prohibit)
- 31. ________ is an economic theory which states that a progressively greater level of consumption is beneficial to the consumers. (consume)
- 32. If your credit card debt is mounting and yet you can't stop spending, you could be a ________(shop).
- 33. The number of people suffering from shopping addiction has ________ (TAKE) the number of drug and drink addicts combined.
- ________ (realist), however, the fact remains that this music, had it been written by a composure of any other name, would probably have remained buried in the archives.
- 35. The region has several medium-sized towns and cities, but no major ________ (urban)
- 36. When you're on a cross-country flight, it's tough to tolerate the ________ crying of a baby. (cease)
- 37. Our ________ mind registers things which our conscious mind is not aware of. (conscious)
- 38. They were now faced with seemingly ________ technical problems (mount).
- 39. The report should distinguish clearly between ________ fact, firm opinion and mere speculation (dispute)
- 40. They have become ________, with both sides refusing to compromise any further. (reconcile)
- 41. Finland's metalworkers' union chief Riku Aalto has criticised government proposals to alter nationwide labour conditions as ________and unprofessional (amateur).