1. Match the following words with their meanings.
1) The highest point, as of achievement or development: _____
2) Acutely insightful and wise: _____
3) To wish, long, or crave for (something, esp. the property of another person) _____
4) Feeling or showing profound respect: _____
5) To become larger, more powerful, etc.: _____
6) To decrease gradually in size, amount, intensity, or degree; decline: _____
7) Full of guilt or regret; remorseful: _____
8) (Usually postpositive and followed by with) filled or charged; attended: _____
9) Well-known for badness or wickedness: _____
10) Make ineffective or powerless: _____
11) Physically or mentally demanding to the point of exhaustion: _____
12) ( Informal) rich; prosperous; wealthy: _____
2. Fill in the blanks with proper words or expressions from the text.
1) He was beginning to ______ the true nature of their relationship.
2) The house was furnished with ______ taste.
3) The car ______ across the road to avoid hitting a small boy.
4) The doctors didn’t ______ their words, and predicted the worst.
5) It was more than ______ could bear.
6) He ______ as the dentist touched his broken tooth.
7) The birds ______ loudly in the hedges.
8) To their surprise, their mother started to ______ like a child.
9) He was ______ over the team’s unexpected win.
10) Guerrilla ______ were employed during most of the war.
11) The prisoner’s resistance ______ after seven days.
12) Although I’m retired, voluntary work keeps me ______.
3. Fill in the blanks with the proper form of the words in the brackets.
1) It is _____ (logician) to assume that you will get a higher salary if you are promoted.
2) Aerobics is the latest fitness _____ (crazy).
3) She was an _____ (idiocy) to give up such a good job.
4) She turned to me with an _____ (expect) look on her face.