Advanced English Vocabulary Quiz (3)

1. Few, if any, of the statements could be ____ substantiated by concrete experimental evidence.

2. He invariably gets what he wants but unfortunately this is usually ____ the expense of others.

3. Industry as a whole was badly affected by the restrictions, but it was the high technology sector that suffered most ____ .

4. One defect seems inherent in a purely classical education – namely, a too ____ emphasis on the past.

5. Any child left to its own devices for too long is likely to ____ on some dangerous enterprise.

6. The two archaeologists have tried hard to read the inscription in old Latin, but I do not think they have ____ what it really means.

7. The children of today are healthier and better ____ than those of the past, and far fewer of them die in infancy.

8. The rise in energy ____ has led to a reduction of fossil fuels that the world must use.

9. He’s basically a very reliant person so you can be sure he’ll soon ____ this disappointment.

10. We must find some way to give them fairly complete and realistic picture of the situation, but without ____ them too much.