Academic Words in Context
RI.5.4
NameDate
Tick the right meaning.
1.The committee reached a consensus after two hours. What does "consensus" mean here?
- A.general agreement among a group
- B.a formal complaint
- C.a written record
- D.a sharp disagreement
2.Her concise summary covered the whole report. What does "concise" mean here?
- A.badly spelled
- B.highly decorated
- C.long and rambling
- D.saying much in few words
3.Adverse weather delayed the launch by a week. What does "adverse" mean here?
- A.helpful and favourable
- B.unfavourable; working against you
- C.long expected
- D.completely neutral
4.The old signalling system is now obsolete. What does "obsolete" mean here?
- A.very expensive
- B.brand new and popular
- C.carefully hidden
- D.no longer used because something better exists
5.The instruction was ambiguous, so half the class did it differently. What does "ambiguous" mean here?
- A.perfectly clear
- B.recently written
- C.extremely long
- D.able to be understood in more than one way
6.The arduous climb took them nine hours. What does "arduous" mean here?
- A.extremely short
- B.needing a lot of hard effort
- C.requiring no effort
- D.very entertaining
7.Scientists scrutinise the data before publishing it. What does "scrutinise" mean here?
- A.to glance at briefly
- B.to copy out
- C.to examine very closely
- D.to throw away
8.Their hypothesis was that light affected the growth rate. What does "hypothesis" mean here?
- A.a proven fact
- B.an idea put forward to be tested
- C.a type of graph
- D.a formal apology
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