Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions:

I would spend inordinate amount of time in the clothes shop, deciding which dress I was going to buy.

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The disabled artist digitally inserted himself ____ the picture

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Lyn was very excited when she saw that bird but her brother told her it wasn’t a rare bird, just a common or ______________ sparrow

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Susan has achieved great _________ in her career thanks to her hard work

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Fraud detectives are investigating the company, three of ____________ senior executives have already been arrested.

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Criminals often ________________ in these empty apartments where the police have difficulties in finding out

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The________agency may provide you with useful information

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When I was staying in German last year, I _______ quite a lot of German

John cannot make a _______ to get married to Mary or stay single until he can afford a house and a car.

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I found the information for the project in the encyclopaedia but I couldn’t give ______ and verse on it.

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He needs to do it by himself, ___________?

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Many schools have abandoned the policy of _____________ punishment for children who misbehave and prefer to give extra work or detention after school instead.

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He acts like his father. You know, the________doesn’t fall far from the tree

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Try as we might, we saved only_________people in the accident

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions:

Mail shots have proved to be the most cost–effective method of marketing our products.

Many people have objected to ____ marriage, which is decided by the parents of the bride and groom.

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My family decorated our house to celebrate Christmas. A friend of mine dropped in

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Japan,________the land of the rising sun, attracts many tourists every year

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The firemen did well ______ their preparation for catastrophic gas explosions

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_________get older, the games they play become increasingly complex.

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I was so nervous about meeting Sophie’s parents for the first time, but her dad immediately broke the __________ by asking about my car, and everything went great after that.