{"id":1697,"date":"2016-12-11T17:14:30","date_gmt":"2016-12-11T17:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=1697"},"modified":"2016-12-11T17:14:30","modified_gmt":"2016-12-11T17:14:30","slug":"vocabulary-exercise-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/vocabulary-exercise-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Vocabulary exercise 19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Complete the following sentences using an appropriate word.<\/p>\n<p>Circumlocution, chore, chasm, chauvinism, chagrin, censure, celestial, cessation, categorical, caustic<\/p>\n<p>1. The minister made a \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026 denial of the charges leveled against him.<\/p>\n<p>2. His \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026. remarks hurt our feeling<\/p>\n<p>3. A \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026. map shows the positions of the planets.<\/p>\n<p>4. The principal \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026 the students for breaking curfew.<\/p>\n<p>5. The warring nations agreed on a \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026. of hostilities.<\/p>\n<p>6. The minister resigned his position with \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026. admitting that he had taken bribes.<\/p>\n<p>7. The earthquake left a deep \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.. in the earth\u2019s surface.<\/p>\n<p>8. The senator\u2019s \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026 made him intolerant of other countries.<\/p>\n<p>9. Filling out complicated tax forms is a real \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026..<\/p>\n<p>10. You could have made your point with less \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026..<\/p>\n<p><strong>Answers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. The minister made a <strong>categorical<\/strong> denial of the charges leveled against him.<\/p>\n<p>2. Hi<strong>s caustic<\/strong> remarks hurt our feeling<\/p>\n<p>3. A <strong>celestial<\/strong> map shows the positions of the planets.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">4. The principal <\/span><strong style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">censured<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\"> the students for breaking curfew.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>5. The warring nations agreed on a <strong>cessation<\/strong> of hostilities.<\/p>\n<p>6. The minister resigned his position with<strong> chagrin<\/strong> admitting that he had taken bribes.<\/p>\n<p>7. The earthquake left a deep <strong>chasm<\/strong> in the earth\u2019s surface.<\/p>\n<p>8. The senator\u2019s <strong>chauvinism<\/strong> made him intolerant of other countries.<\/p>\n<p>9. Filling out complicated tax forms is a real <strong>chore.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>10. You could have made your point with less <strong>circumlocution.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Meanings<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Categorical \u2013 absolute, unconditional, explicit, unmistakable<\/p>\n<p>Caustic \u2013 sarcastic, scathing, acrid, acrimonious<\/p>\n<p>Celestial \u2013 planetary, solar, stellar<\/p>\n<p>Censure \u2013 admonish, reprimand, disapprove<\/p>\n<p>Cessation \u2013 stopping, ceasing, quitting, discontinuing<\/p>\n<p>Chagrin \u2013 humiliation, embarrassment, shame<\/p>\n<p>Chasm \u2013 fissure, divide, split, ravine<\/p>\n<p>Chauvinism \u2013 super patriotism<\/p>\n<p>Chore \u2013 unpleasant task, household task, tedious job<\/p>\n<p>Circumlocution \u2013 wordiness, verbosity, roundabout expression<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Complete the following sentences using an appropriate word. Circumlocution, chore, chasm, chauvinism, chagrin, censure, celestial, cessation, categorical, caustic 1. The minister made a \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026 denial of the charges leveled against him. 2. His \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.&#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":[6],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-1697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocabulary-exercises","tag-vocabulary-exercises-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697","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=1697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1698,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697\/revisions\/1698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}