Exercise 13. Vocabulary. Part I

Look at the sentences, and then choose the best option to complete them by clicking on the choices below. When you have finished, click on "answers" at the bottom of the page.

Questions 1-15.
1. The department in charge of the staff at a company is called -
a. impersonal b. personnel c. personality d. pensions
2. Something which should be kept private is -
a. duplicitous b. devious c. confident d. confidential
3. When you check your work again, this is called -
a. hindsight b. post-vision c. re-sighting d. reviewing
4. Studying something to see how good it is is to ...... it.
a. examine b. observe c. speculate d. overview
5. The things and people around you make up your -
a. atmosphere b. ambience c. society d. environment
6. What something is capable of doing is its -
a. pastime b. latency c. potential d. inability
7. How easy you find it to do something depends on your -
a. aptitude b. setting c. innovation d. feasibility
8. If you arrive on time, you are -
a. punctual b. punctured c. punctilious d. perfunctory
9. The way you feel or act toward something depends on your -
a. altitude b. attributes c. attitude d. aliments
10. Whether you feel something is right or wrong depends on your ..... sense.
a. mortal b. instinct c. inner d. moral
11. Things the company does for itself are done -
a. in-house b. externally c. officially d. logistically
12. If something has started, it is -
a. off way b. under way c. in the way d. all away
13. Something that goes with something else .... it
a. compounds b. complements c. contains d. contrasts
14. A machine for pinning papers together is called a -
a. stapler b. pinball c. clipboard d. pinwheel
15. Pay for working extra hours is called pay for -
a. in time b. up-time c. overtime d. timeplus

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