Master Upper Intermediate English Vocabulary Units 1 & 10

Upper Intermediate English: Unit 1 and Unit 10

Unit 1: Character, Perseverance, and Emotions

Exercises

• Exercise 1: Ingenuity, commitment, perfectionism, perseverance, compassion, optimism.
• Exercise 2 (Text): Ground-breaking, problem, overcome, hindrance, innovative, get over.
• Exercise 3: Glancing and gawping, squinting and gaping, glimpsed and peeked.
• Exercise 4 (Text): Ground-breaking, overcome, obstacles, benefit, glimpse, perseverance.
• Exercise 1 (Self-prefixes): Preservation, selflessness, self-defence, self-sacrifice, self-assurance, self-interest.
• Exercise 1 (Text): Attentive, conundrum, penalized, gradual, haggard, interim.
• Exercise 2: Inspirational, willing, dedicated, compassionate, courageous, resourceful, determined.
• Exercise 4: Bewildered and bemused, aggressive and antagonistic, vicious, altruistic, guarded, preoccupied.
• Exercise 5 (Multiple Choice): Altruistic, aggressive, antagonistic, vicious, bewildered, guarded, bemused, preoccupied.

From the Test

• Exercise 1: Optimism, perfectionism, perseverance, tolerance, ingenuity, commitment, single-mindedness, compassion.
• Exercise 2 (Multiple Choice): Get over, blow, innovative and revolutionary, ground-breaking, benefits, hindrance.
• Exercise 3 (Matching): Self: 1-d, 2-c, 3-f, 4-h, 5-g, 6-a, 7-e, 8-b.
• Exercise 4: Incremental, haggard, a great deal, striking, conundrum, interim, attentive, penalized.
• Exercise 5: Willingness, dignified, inspirational, persistence, courageous.

Unit 10: Society, Politics, and Governance

Exercises

• Exercise 1 (Multiple Choice): Communal, freeloaders, diversify, trousers, collateral, power.
• Exercise 2 (Matching): 1. Distribution-c, 2-e, 3-a, 4-f, 5-b, 6-d.
• Exercise 3: Egalitarian, secular, communal, mainstream, spiritual, alternative.
• Exercise 4 (Text): Communal, engagement, wealth, ethnic, extreme, moderate, opportunities.
• Exercise 1 (Politics): Left-wing, ballot, general, polling, wing, local, manifesto, turnout.
• Exercise 1 (Formal): Abolish, nation, swore, liberty, adversary, humanity.
• Exercise 2 (Idioms): Out of thin air, set the record straight, off the mark, with the truth, down to, under fire.
• Exercise 5: Lobbying, privilege, undermining, relevance, ornamental, wields, ascended the throne, uphold.
• Exercise 6 (Text): Ascended the throne, privilege, wields, ornamental, uphold, relevance.

From the Test

• Exercise 1: Diversity leadership, wears the trousers, freeloader, collateral, shared equally, communal, lost momentum.
• Exercise 2: Law enforcement, distribution of wealth, social responsibility, common good, minority, civic engagement.
• Exercise 3 (Vocabulary): General election, turnout, constituency, ballot papers, polling station, manifesto, left-wing, vote.
• Exercise 4 (Matching): 1. Swear-c, 2-e, 3-d, 4-f, 5-a, 6-g, 7-b.