Questões de Concurso sobre Vocabulário

According to the text, most headhunters believe that being bilingual is critical for success in the business world. The word CRITICAL in this context means:

CRITICISED is a word with two forms of writing, the American and the British, as many others. The incorrect pair of word with two forms is:

Choose the best option to complete the sentences using tough, though, thought and through:

1. ______ it was raining, we went for a walk.

2. He´s a _____ man.

3. We are used to working _____ the night.

4. I _____ you were his wife.

The closest meaning of the word ‘thoughtful’ is:

“...broadcasting (...),” underlined in the text is closest, in meaning to:

In the sentence “the dangerous comets and asteroids which might cross Earth’s orbit” (lines 39 and 40), the underlined word is similar to

No texto, o significado de “sunlit regions” se refere a:

The text states the cells embedded in the suckers enable the arms to do double duty of touch and taste, which means, in Portuguese, the animal have sensory skills like:

The meaning of “raffle” in the title is:

In the text, the word “octopus” means, in Portuguese:

Read the text below and decide which option best fits each gap:

Planetary Artistry

By Johanna Kieniewicz

For me, the highlight of this past week's science news was the images __________ back from the Curiosity rover, providing __________ geologic evidence that water flowed on Mars. Of course, this wasn't exactly a surprise; for decades, planetary scientists have suggested the channel networks visible in spacecraft imagery couldn't have been made by anything else. The evidence has been __________ as well, as various clay minerals and iron oxides have been identified through hyperspectral imagery.

Nonetheless, I suspect that the image of definitely water-lain __________ made the heart of more than one geologist __________ a beat. Ground truth. You could argue that the scientific exploration of the extra-terrestrial is, at least __________ part, a search for meaning: to position us within a larger cosmology. But our fascination with, and connection to, what we see in the night sky comes not just through science, but also through art. So it should come as no surprise that scientific images of planetary surfaces have __________ inspiration to a range of artists from Galileo - whose first sketches of the moon through a telescope are __________ beautiful - to Barbara Hepworth - whose interpretations of the lunar surface are far less literal.

Source and full text: http://blogs.plos.org/attheinterface/2012/10/04/planetary-artistry/

The correct sequence is:

"My brother was so loud and noisy tonight that I had to get up and ______________________."

Choose the appropriate phrasal verb to complete the sentence:

Read and choose the alternative that correctly completes the sentence:

The Smiths went on a two-mont ___________ to South America and returned to California in November.

“Narrow” is opposite of:

Which option completes the paragraph below correctly?

If your child has no symptoms of vision problems and no family history of vision problems, ____________ every one to two years. Otherwise, schedule eye exams based on the advice of your eye doctor.

(Adapted from htips://www.mayoclinic.org)

Choose the best answer that completes the sentence “He became a rich man after he was __________ a great deal of money by his aunt whom he had never seen before.”:

Find the mistakes and choose the option that best corrects the sentence:

“Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17, 1706, in Boston, Massachusetts. He was one of ten child born to Josiah Franklin, a soap maker, and his wife Abiah Folger. When Benjamin was 12, he aprenticed for his brother James who were a printer. Benjamin worked extremely hard at formating the text and composing publications.”

Observe the extracted part of the head of the article and choose the correct alternative for rewriting the date:

Mon 31 Aug 2020

Analyze the words and take the odd one out:

1. assist – sustain – aid – refute.

2. increase – reprieve – improve – reinforce.

3. reveal – disclose – rebut – evince.

Choose the option where both grammar and vocabulary are correct:

1. The journey from Lisbon to Paris was great.

2. I lost the bus. That is why I was late.

3. She is a beautiful thirty-eight-year old woman.

4. Here's our next concurrent in our quiz show.