English: Vocabulary Set 9

vocab

1. Soporific – tending to induce drowsiness or sleep. Synonyms: sleeping pill, sleeping potion, sedative, calmative, tranquillizer, narcotic, opiate. Antonyms: upsetting, awake, exciting, invigorating, stimulating Sentence Usage: The soporific effect of milk (at bedtime) is an age old tested truth. 2. Insatiable – impossible to satisfy. Synonyms: unquenchable, unappeasable, uncontrollable, voracious, prodigious, gluttonous, greedy, hungry Antonyms: fulfilled, full, pleased, satiable,…

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Mixed English Questions Set 5

Directions (1-5): Fill in the blanks in the passage using appropriate words. The government is (1)_____considering imposing a £1,000-a-year levy on every European Union skilled worker recruited by British employers after Brexit, the immigration minister has (2)______. Home Office minister Robert Goodwill told peers that the “immigration skills levy” could be (3)______ for EU migrants and would “be helpful to…

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