English Vocabulary Exercise

Fill in the blanks.

1. He lives on the north ………………….. of America. (cost / coast)

2. I want to know …………………… you can come or not. (weather / whether)

3. The bad weather ………………….. my health. (affected / effected)

4. The investigators …………………… the documents. (seized / ceased)

5. I could not understand the ………………………… of his statement. (implications / applications)

6. Metals …………………… on heating. (expand / expend)

7. The doctor is seeing his …………………….. (patience / patients)

8. He has little …………………….. (patience / patients)

9. The …………………….. the death of their leader. (moaned / mourned)

10. The doctor …………………….. a new medicine for the patient. (prescribed / proscribed)

Answers

1. He lives on the north coast of America.

2. I want to know whether you can come or not.

3. The bad weather affected my health.

4. The investigators seized the documents.

5. I could not understand the implications of his statement.

6. Metals expand on heating.

7. The doctor is seeing his patients.

8. He has little patience.

9. They mourned the death of their leader.

10. The doctor prescribed a new medicine for the patient.