MID-TERM REVIEW - ANSWERS - MEC 3

MEC 3 – MID TERM REVIEW – KEY

01. COMPLETE USING A SUITABLE WORD OR EXPRESSION FOR EACH DEFINITION

01. stage manager

02. stunt man

03. stunt

04. martial arts

05. dull

06. tarantula

07. practical joke

08. whoope cushion

09. catastrophe

10. bloody

11. to backfire

12. bowling

13. bad sport

14. to beat

15. to strangle

16. to do sth with one’s bare hands

17. approval

18. stamp / seal of approval

19. to have / to win one’s stampo of approval

20. to feature

21. misfortune

22. classic

23. to set the scene

24. live (note: the vowel “i” in the word ‘live’ has the same sound as in “night”)

25. to broadcast

26. proper

27. backstage

28. news anchor

29. to tick away

30. clue

31. indisposed

32. spokesman

33. doomed

34. to subsidize

35. misguided

36. to fake

37. host

38. to make sth up

39. to run

40. wheelie

41. buildup

42. to attempt

43. stack

44. sunset

45. sunrise

46. push sth over

47. thud

48. failure

49. mannequin

50. roll it

51. to make believe

52. live

53. to start with

54. to get into sth

55. spot

56. to molt

57. virgin

58. memorable

59. originally

60. contestant

61. nubula (plural: nubulae)

62. outer space

63. gibberish

64. to give away

65. to get one’s breath

66. to sweat

67. to figure

68. to be taken aback

69. unsettling

70. smooth

71. auditor

72. gypsy

73. to be dying

74. to be in hot water

75. word has it

76. station wagon

77. lemon

78. seminar

79. pedant

80. to brag about / of

81. to accomplish

82. observation deck

83. to hot wire

84. juvenile correction center

85. nightmare

86. showtime

87. conductor

88. toasted

89. dressing room

90. to bore the heck out of sb

91. to doze off

92. vulture

93. to hover

94. principal

95. conception

96. thereby

97. aside

98. crippling

99. to lie

100. peer

101. profound

102. speech pattern

103. standard language

104. sub-par

105. to radio

106. airliner

107. midair

108. tangy

109. wacky

110. freak

111. to bask

112. spotlight

113. newfound

114. to ban

115. fitness

116. fraud

117. to bound (for)

118. unavoidable

119. poorly

120. feature

121. famished

122. to do away with

123. role model

124. glutton

125. to exploit

126. delight

127. climatologist

128. tornado

129. famine

130. plague

131. to foresee

132. blessing

133. widow

134. widower

135. to shoot down

136. to bail out

137. to get in touch with

02. FILL IN THE BLANKS WITH THE CORRECT FORM OF THE VERBS IN PARENTHESES.

01. playing *(the action in progress)

02. play *(from the beginning to the end)

03. shake / shaking

04. skating

05. swim (calling attention)

06. studying

07. waiting

08. dozing off

09. using

10. finding

11. burning

12. (to) find

13. (to) fix

14. have

15. tell / telling

03. FILL IN THE BLANKS WITH EITHER ONE, PERSON, WE, OUR….

01. one

02. one’s

03. you

04. your

05. their - themselves

06. one

07. our

04. EXPRESSIONS FROM INSIDE THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

01. freak

02. freaked …out

03. hangover

04. accomplished

05. boasting / bragging

06. word has it

07. fake

08. dull

09. broadcasting

10. dull

05. COMPLETE…

01. should you accept

02. should Joanne quit

03. have I seen

04. will he able to