13 Aralık 2010 Pazartesi

advance vocabulary exercises

hype   testimony  amnesty   reconciliation  confession   suffocation  apartheid   revenge  brink 

1) 640 of the 22 thousand and 421 criminals who were released after the ________ committed crimes and were jailed again.
2) Initially, the aim of the ________ was to maintain white domination while extending racial separation.
3) Forty-three-year-old Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Yang Jianpo from Langfang City, Hebei Province is on the _______ of death at the Jidong Prison in Tangshan City as his illness is spreading each day.
4) In the early Church, publicly known sins (such as apostasy) were often given away openly in church, though private _______ to a priest was always an option for privately committed sins.
5)A national _________ plan for Iraq calls for a timetable for withdrawal of U.S. troops and, controversially, amnesty for insurgents who attacked American and Iraqi soldiers.
6) Kill Bill is a great film embodied with abundant motives of _______________.
7) Children undergo ___________ when something obstructs their breathing. This often happens while they are in the bed or crib and by accidental hanging.
8) Ultimately a jury of twelve was seated who had sworn that they could believe the __________ of an Atheist over that of a Christian.

garland   liaison     convoy      sovereignty      exuberant     imperialism    hype    stipulate     
cymbal     prodigiously    bourgeoisie     enclave        destitute 


1) ___________________is a French word. The word evolved to mean merchants and traders, and until the 19th century was mostly synonymous with the middle class (persons in the broad socioeconomic spectrum between nobility and serfs or proletarians).
2) ____________ is an extreme state of poverty, in which a person is almost completely lacking in resources or means of support.
3) Bluepurplegrey coin pearls were ______________ with green and grey round pearls--the whole confection hanged on 14K gold filled French wires.
4) Rasiah Ilanthiraiyan, a spokesman for the Tigers, said he was checking with regional commanders to see if the Tigers were responsible for the attack on the naval _________-a group of sailors.
5) By this stage, Gillespie Sells appeared to have remembered his repertoire of rock-star moves. There was the right hand dropping on the fretboard, only to rise up, Springsteen-like, as the resulting chord resounded around the room; the occasional kick of a __________; and copious windmilling. That just the one encore left fans wanting more was confirmed by the 500-long queue of people waiting to buy freshly burnt CDs of the same night’s performance. For a bad night, then, not a bad night at all.
6) Between 1991 and 2001, the white population of Dewsbury fell by 2 per cent. During the same period, the Indian population rose by 25 per cent and the Pakistani community by 60 per cent. And as each year passes, Saville Town moves closer to becoming an exclusively Islamic ___________. It is possible here for a Muslim child to grow up — in the family home, at school and in the mosque and madrassa — without coming into any contact with Western lifestyles, opinions or values.
7) Because of all the ________ surrounding Keane’s appointment as manager of Sunderland last week, there may have been more than a hint of tongue in cheek when Billy Davies, his opposite number at Derby County, who take on Sunderland at Pride Park tomorrow, said: “When I found out Roy would be starting his career as a manager against my team, I thought the world had come to an end.
8) "It's so exciting, they should have opened this years ago," yelled an ____________ Kitty Chan, 30, who was making her first visit to a Disney park.
9) ______________ is a policy of extending control or authority over foreign entities as a means of acquisition and/or maintenance of empires. This is either through direct territorial; conquest or settlement, or through indirect methods of exerting control on the politics and/or economy.
10) Sahin said the target of agreement is cooperation (between BSEC members) against natural disasters as well as disasters caused by humans.
''Within the scope of the agreement, we will establish _________ offices (in all BSEC member countries) for exchange of information during emergency situations,'' he noted.
11) The long-simmering dispute between the two west African neighbors centers on ____________ over the strategic Bakassi peninsula, a potentially oil-rich 1,000 square kilometre (400 square mile) patch of Atlantic coastal swamp with access to coveted fishing grounds.
12) Shiites together hold about 210 seats in the national assembly. Iraq's interim rules _________ that the draft can be passed by a simple majority in parliament.
13) Two ballerinas lead the ensemble, and each has her own pas de deux. The first, for Darcey Bussell and Edward Watson, is _____________ acrobatic and finds Bussell in splendid form.



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