Questões de Concurso sobre Vocabulário

A: "They fought __________ to win, but failed."

B: "Oh, what a shame!"

the relative pronoun “that” (l.1) can be correctly replaced by which.

A alternativa, na qual as palavras têm sentido semelhante, é:

Sobre a formação de palavras de sentido oposto, pelo processo de prefixação, analise os pares abaixo:

I. impossible (linha 04) — possible

II. undergoes (linha 06) — overcomes

III. underground (linha 09) — overground

IV. although (linha 13) — though

V. unfortunately (linha 14) — fortunately

The word Transgressing in line 05 has the same meaning as

“give way to” (l.5) means become replaced by something, especially because it is better, cheaper, easier, etc.

“retain” (l.25) is synonymous with detain.

“starkly” (l.10) can be translated as timidamente in Portuguese.

“all of” (l.18) can be correctly replaced by most of.

“must” (l.10) can be correctly replaced by should.

In “An Ishiguro made of circuitry and silicone might soon be answering his own questions.” (lines 64-66), “might” can be correctly substituted by:

Dialogues and drills, repetition and memorization are types of activities required by the following method/approach:

“In fact” (l.12) means As a matter of fact.

In the text, "burned the midnight oil" (line 6) means

In "It may take better technology to cope with the problems better technology creates." (lines 18-19), cope with can be correctly substituted by:

We can infer from the sentence, "...whose shoes do you shine?..." in line 6, that Lincoln thought people should be:

“livelihoods” (l.22) is equivalent to sustento, meio de vida in Portuguese.

The author intends to make a caveat in relation to the distinction between knowledge and wisdom. Thus, he is posing

A palavra que preenche corretamente a lacuna é