Welcome to your IELTS Vocabulary Test 1
Choose the correct answer:
1.
To _________ over something is to feel or express worry, annoyance, or anxiety about it.
2.
Something that is _______________ is not only characteristic or distinctive of a type but goes a step further to capture the pure and essential essence of it — or to embody it perfectly.
3.
To ____________ something suggests taking forceful measures to prevent something undesirable.
4.
To ___________ something is to confirm a theory, story, or fact with evidence, such as in a courtroom, witnesses might be called to do this to a story from suspect.
5.
__________ is a compound noun used for any idea. Using this term usually connotes our admiration for something or someone's creativity.
6.
Using the term of ___________ to describe something that keeps happening without any interruption, especially in the weather forecast, to describe unrelenting rainfall.
7.
Something is _____________ means that it is overused, especially in using words, remarks, or the way someone expresses that is cliched, lifeless, and uninteresting.
8.
_________ is mostly used to talk about lessening or reducing a strong emotion felt for someone, such as worry, fear, or pain.
9.
To talk about something never having occurred or existed in the past, we could use the term: ____________.
10.
To be under the _____________ of someone is to receive help, advice, or teaching about how to do something from that person.
