Quiz 1 [Level 4]

Accrete is to grow rapidly by multiplication.

Account is a record of financial transactions maintained.

Acclaim is public praise for achievement or success.

Academy is an institution for recalcitrant students.

Abstain is to defy authority.

Absolve is freeing someone from blame, guilt.

Abscond is to leave secretly to avoid capture.

Abscess is an abnormal tissue full of a thick yellow liquid.

Ablutions is the act of washing yourself.

Which word beginning with ab means – shorten a book, film, speech, etc. without losing the sense?

Which word beginning with ab means – moving side by side and facing the same way?

Which word beginning with ab means – an absence of willpower or an inability to act decisively?

Which word beginning with ab means – formally put an end to a system, practice, or institution?

Which word beginning with ab means – possession of the means or skill to do something?

Which word beginning with ab means – encourage or assist someone to commit a crime?

Which word beginning with ab means – the part of the body of a vertebrate containing the digestive and reproductive organs?

Which word beginning with ab means – facing away from the stem of a plant?

Which word beginning with ab means – cease to support or look after someone?

Which word beginning with ab means – an edible mollusc of warm seas, with a shallow ear-shaped shell lined with mother-of-pearl?

Which word is out of place with abiding adj. – lasting, enduring, ephemeral, permanent?

Which word is out of place with abhorrence n. – affection, aversion, loathing, detestation?

Which word is out of place with aberrant adj. – deviant, anomalous, abnormal, regular?

Which word is out of place with abduction n. – kidnapping, overture, seizure, capture?

Which word is out of place with abdicate v. – resign, quit, embrace, renounce?

Which word is out of place with abbreviate v. – shorten, abridge, prolong, contract?

Which word is out of place with abatement – reduction, augmentation, suspension, respite?

Which word is out of place with abashed adj. – startled, ashamed, chagrined, embarrassed?

Which word is out of place with abasement n. – humiliation, exaltation, mortification, degradation?

Which word is out of place with abandon v. – desert, maroon, loath, forsake?

Match the word in the first column with another in the second column to make a recognised phrase or collocation.

Match the word in the first column with another in the second column to make a recognised phrase or collocation.