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Tue, 09/01/2009 - 00:27 — Chris McCarthy

 A short quiz for you today. Take a look at the five sentences and choose which word has the closest meaning to the key-word.

How many of you can get all five correct?

Link: 10 Prepositions Questions

  • 'Astonished' - I was astonished to hear the baby talking:





  • 'Abhor' - Put that cigarette out. She abhors the smell of smoke:





  • 'Affluent'- He earns more than anyone I know. He's my most affluent friend:





  • 'Plausible' - Do you think that their story was too far-fetched to be plausible?





  • 'Picky' - My son is very picky about what he eats. It's difficult to cook for him:









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Comments

Tue, 09/01/2009 - 03:18 — Bashayer

:)

interesting lesson

I got four correct

thanks a lot

Tue, 09/01/2009 - 03:46 — Venuri

Vocabulary

O:)all 5 correct. Interesting lesson. Thanks.

Tue, 09/01/2009 - 07:35 — ynastia

Astonished lesson. Thank

Astonished lesson. Thank you. There is a misprint in second choice. I think it should be "understand" instead of "ubderstand". Am I right?

Tue, 09/01/2009 - 08:05 — doodoo

thanks :)

i make all correct Smile

Tue, 09/01/2009 - 08:12 — Chris McCarthy

RE: Understand

Fixed! Thanks for pointing out the mistake.

Chris

Tue, 09/01/2009 - 16:49 — Euge

Interesting.... but the

Interesting.... but the context does help a lot.

Tue, 09/01/2009 - 17:16 — Yura

Excellent Lesson. Nice

Excellent Lesson. Nice exercise!It was not easy, some words I didn't know, but I made ALL CORRECT!!! Applause
Thanks a lot!!! Smile

Tue, 09/01/2009 - 17:42 — Feeedz

Easy

Thanks alot, it is pretty much easy, I get them all right, either they all are new words to me !
I just wonder if the litter "h" in 'Abhor' is silent or not ?

Tue, 09/01/2009 - 18:14 — Natalysmart

Nataly Thanks a lot,I've

Nataly
Thanks a lot,I've learnt new words

Wed, 09/02/2009 - 12:28 — rksinha

I got all correct. Thanks to

I got all correct. Thanks to EC team.

Fri, 09/04/2009 - 01:50 — papasforever

all correct Thank you EC

all correct Smile

Thank you EC for this revise Smile

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 07:44 — hoanvanmac

synonym

It't difficult exercise. I got only three correct words.
I will try to learn english more and more.
Thanks.

Thu, 09/17/2009 - 06:18 — Paria

5 out of 5! interesting

5 out of 5!
interesting !
nice lesson.thumbs up

Sun, 05/09/2010 - 02:28 — dav.singh

picky exercise

mrcarthy is very picky to his exercise lesson for us . i got astonished after seeing some affluent words and when i matched , it was difficult to plausible for me. only 4 correct
thank chris

Tue, 05/11/2010 - 19:37 — rajachinna

test

i got 4 out of 5.its very interesting.

Tue, 08/02/2011 - 08:36 — jyoti nagwani

thanks

i got all of them correct ...thanks for the lesson