{"id":1347,"date":"2016-07-04T09:58:14","date_gmt":"2016-07-04T09:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=1347"},"modified":"2016-07-04T09:58:14","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T09:58:14","slug":"vocabulary-exercise-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/vocabulary-exercise-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Vocabulary exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Complete the following sentences using an appropriate form of the word given in the brackets.<\/p>\n<p>1. The boy shows an \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.. of initiative. (absent)<\/p>\n<p>2. I am \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026 sure these are the facts. (absolute)<\/p>\n<p>3. Vegetarians are known for their \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.. from eating meat. (abstain)<\/p>\n<p>4. His story of being kidnapped by aliens was sheer \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026 (absurd)<\/p>\n<p>5. There is \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026. water in spite of the dry spell. (abundance)<\/p>\n<p>6. Please don\u2019t use such \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026. language. (abuse)<\/p>\n<p>7. The lawyers said that the contract was not \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.. (accept)<\/p>\n<p>8. His \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026. of bribes led to his arrest. (accept)<\/p>\n<p>9. Camels are the \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026 means of transportation in the desert. (accept)<\/p>\n<p>10. Our meeting on the street was purely \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.. (accident)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Answers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. The boy shows an <strong>absence<\/strong> of initiative.<\/p>\n<p>2. I am <strong>absolutely<\/strong> sure these are the facts.<\/p>\n<p>3. Vegetarians are known for their <strong>abstention<\/strong> from eating meat.<\/p>\n<p>4. His story of being kidnapped by aliens was sheer<strong> absurdity<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>5. There is<strong> abundant<\/strong> water in spite of the dry spell.<\/p>\n<p>6. Please don\u2019t use such <strong>abusive<\/strong> language.<\/p>\n<p>7. The lawyers said that the contract was not <strong>acceptable<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>8. His <strong>acceptance<\/strong> of bribes led to his arrest.<\/p>\n<p>9. Camels are the <strong>accepted<\/strong> means of transportation in the desert.<\/p>\n<p>10. Our meeting on the street was purely <strong>accidental.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Complete the following sentences using an appropriate form of the word given in the brackets. 1. The boy shows an \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.. of initiative. (absent) 2. I am \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026 sure these are the facts. (absolute)&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-1347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocabulary","tag-vocabulary-exercise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1348,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347\/revisions\/1348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}