Set-6 Ancient Life

Question 1

Accuracy

Answer 1

Precision; exactness (n)

Tips: often followed by of

The research department checks articles for accuracy of facts before before being printed.

Question 2

Adjacent

Answer 2

Next to (adj)

Tips: often followed by to

Even though the villages are adjacent to each other, their residents speak different languages.

Question 3

Compress

Answer 3

To press together (v)

To make the foundation stronger, they compressed the soil before pouring the concrete.

Question 4

Feasibly

Answer 4

Practically; in a way that can work (adj)

Being able to travel faster than light is feasibly impossible.

Question 5

Gut

Answer 5

To empty or hollow out (v)

Tips: gut also means “the stomach of animals”

In order to remodel house, we must first gut it and throw away all the old fixtures.

Question 6

integrally

Answer 6

In a whole or complete manner (adv)

Writing and spelling are thought integrally as part of the reading program.

Question 7

Overlap

Answer 7

To lie over part of something; to have elements in common (v)

The evidence and the suspicious finally overleps.

Question 8

Retain

Answer 8

To keep or hold (v)

In order to retain in the ofis you should take the deal.

Question 9

Seep

Answer 9

To pas slowly for a long time, as a liquid or gas might (v)

Tips: often followed by into or through

As the containers rusted, the toxic waste speed into the ground.

Question 10

Structure

Answer 10

Something constructed, such as a building (n)

If we can adapt the structures of buildings, we would protect more life at earthquake times.