1990s

Question 1

1) Adept

2) Adapt

3) Adopt

Answer 1

1) Having a natural ability to do something which needs skill

2) To change something to suit different conditions

2) Formally accept a suggestion on policy by vote

Question 2

1) Alleged

2) Accused

3) Suspected

Answer 2

1) Thought to be the stated bad or illegal thing

2) Person is on trial for committing a crime

3) To think something to be true or probable

Question 3

1) Bear

2) Borne

3) Born

Answer 3

1) To accept, tolerate

2) past participle of bear

3) brought into life by birth

Question 4

1) Raise

2) Rise

3) Raze

Answer 4

1) To lift something up

2) To move upwards

3) To completely destroy a city or building

Question 5

1) Smell
2) stink
3) Scent

Answer 5

1) to have a particular quality which can be detected by noses

2) unpleasant smell

3) pleasant smell

Question 6

1) Least

2) Less
3) Lest

Answer 6

1) Less than anything or anyone else

2) A smaller amount

3) In order to prevent any possibility that something will happen

Question 7

1) Quiet

2) Quite

Answer 7

1) Making very little noise

2) A little or a lot but not completely

Question 8

1) Their

2) There

Answer 8

1) Of or belonging to them

2) That place

Question 9

1) Access

2) excess

Answer 9

1) A way of entering or reaching a place

2) An amount which is more than acceptable

Question 10

1) Ascent

2) Accent

Answer 10

1) an act of climbing upwards

2) The particular way of pronouncing words native to a country

Question 11

1) Resources

2) Recourse

Answer 11

1) A useful or value-able possession or quality of a country, organisation or person

2) Using something or someone as a way of getting help in difficult circumstances

Question 12

1) Weather

2) Whether

Answer 12

1) The conditions in the air above earth

2) If, no not

Question 13

1) Premier

2) Premiere

Answer 13

1) Best or most important

2) The first public performance of a play

Question 14

1) Ingenious

2) Ingenuous

Answer 14

1) Very intelligent

2) Sincere, honest, trusting

Question 15

1) Facilitate
2) Felicitate

Answer 15

1) to things easier

2) congratulate

Question 16

1) conscious

2) conscientious

Answer 16

1) to notice a particular thing or person exists

2) Putting a lot of effort into your work

Question 17

1) Disease

2) Decease

Answer 17

1) Illness if people, animals, plants

2) A person’s death

Question 18

1) ascent

2) assent

Answer 18

1) climb upwards

2) approval of request or idea

Question 19

1) ballot

2) ballet

Answer 19

1) A system of secret voting

2) A type of dancing where carefully organised movements tell a story or idea

Question 20

1) Corps

2) Corpse

Answer 20

1) A military unit trained to perform particular duties

2) A dead body

Question 21

1) Due

2) Dew

Answer 21

1) Expected to happen

2) Drops of water that form on the ground at night

Question 22

1) Diary

2) Dairy

Answer 22

1) Daily record of events

2) A commercial establishment for processing and selling milk

Question 23

1) Momentary

2) Momentous

Answer 23

1) Lasting for a very short time

2) Very important because of impact on future events

Question 24

1) route

2) Rout

Answer 24

1) a particular way or direction between places

2) To defeat an enemy completely and force them to run away

Question 25

1) Veil 2) Vale

Answer 25

1) A piece of cloth worn by women to cover face and head 2) Used in the name of some valleys ( the vale of Evesham)

Question 26

1) Queue 2) Cue

Answer 26

1) A line of people, cars, etc waiting for something 2) an action that is a signal for something

Question 27

1) Differ 2) Defer

Answer 27

1) To be not like something or someone else either physically or in another way 2) To delay, postpone

Question 28

1) Conscious 2) Conscience

Answer 28

1) Aware of something, noticing something 2) The part of your brain which tells you whether your actions are right or wrong

Question 29

1) Confident 2) Confidant

Answer 29

1) Having confidence 2) a person you trust with your secrets

Question 30

1) Atheist 2) Agnostic

Answer 30

1) A person who believes that God doesn’t exist 2) Someone who does not know or believes that it is impossible to know whether a god exists

Question 31

1) Loose 2) Lose

Answer 31

1) Not firmly held 2) To be unable to find something or someone

Question 32

1) Briefing 2) Debriefing

Answer 32

1) information that is given to someone just before they do something or a meeting where this happens 2) To question someone in detail about the work they have done for you

Question 33

1) Dual 2) Duel

Answer 33

1) With two parts 2) A competition between two people

Question 34

1) Compliment 2) Complement

Answer 34

1) A remark that expresses approval, admiration or respect 2) To make something else seem better when paired with another thing

Question 35

1) All 2) Awl

Answer 35

1) everyone 2) a small pointed tool for making holes in wood, leather, etc

Question 36

1) Boy 2) Buoy

Answer 36

1) A male child 2) A floating object on top of the sea to direct ships and warn them of danger

Question 37

1) Fallow 2) Fellow

Answer 37

1) Land not planted with crops to improve its quality of soil 2) Someone who has the same job or interests

Question 38

1) Jewry 2) Jury

Answer 38

1) All the Jews 2) a group of people chosen by a court to listen to a facts in trial and decide guilty or not guilty

Question 39

1) Functional 2) Dysfunctional

Answer 39

1) Designed to be practical and useful 2) Not working in satisfactory

Question 40

1) Yew 2) Due

Answer 40

1) An evergreen tree with flat leaves like needles and small red cones 2) Expected to be in a particular place at a particular time

Question 41

1) Allusive 2) Elusive

Answer 41

1) Containing a lot of allusions 2) Difficult to describe, find, achieve

Question 42

1) Ladylike 2) Ladyship

Answer 42

1) behaving in a way which is socially acceptable for a woman 2) A respectable way of referring to or talking to a woman of high rank or knight without her title

Question 43

1) altogether 2) all together

Answer 43

1) entirely, completely 2) Collection of members undergoing a task

Question 44

1) Ambiguous 2) Ambivalent

Answer 44

1) Open to more than one interpretation 2) Showing good and bad feelings at the same time about the same thing

Question 45

1) Apprise 2) Appraise

Answer 45

1) To give notice to, inform 2) To evaluate

Question 46

1) Bas 2) Badly

Answer 46

1) Unpleasant 2) In a bad manner

Question 47

1) Contrast 2) Compare

Answer 47

1) to show differences when compared 2) To examine and note similarities and differences

Question 48

1) Deduce 2) Imply

Answer 48

1) To form an opinion about something based on information or evidence that is available 2) To involve by logical necessity, entail

Question 49

1) Differ from 2) Differ with

Answer 49

1) To be unlike (Ambition differs from greed) 2) Disagree in opinion (Critics differed with the author over facts)

Question 50

1) farther 2) Further

Answer 50

1) At or to a greater distance 2) Addition, more

Question 51

1) occlude 2) occult

Answer 51

1) To cause to become closed 2) Connected with magic powers and things that cannot be explained by reason or science

Question 52

1) Practical 2) Practicable

Answer 52

1) Manifested in or involving practice 2) Capable of being effected or done

Question 53

1) Raze 2) Raise

Answer 53

1) destroy completely 2) To move to a higher position, elevate

Question 54

1) Canon 2) Cannon

Answer 54

1) generally accepted rules by which judgment will be done 2) an automatic gun

Question 55

1) Avenge 2) revenge

Answer 55

1) Punish someone for something bad they did 2) Punish someone for something bad they did to you

Question 56

1) Caret 2) carat

Answer 56

1) Mark placed below the line or in margin to show place of omission (^) 2) Measurement that shows purity of gold

Question 57

1) Revel 2) Reveal

Answer 57

1) To spend time enjoying yourself In enthusiastic ways 2) To make something known to someone

Question 58

1) Aviary 2) Apiary

Answer 58

1) A large enclosure for holding birds in confinement 2) Place where bees and beehives are kept

Question 59

1) Demesne 2) Demean

Answer 59

1) Possession of real estate as one’s own 2) To belittle