Vocabulary Practice E Module Summer 2022 Letters D-F

The exercises in this worksheet are based on the Mikud Vocabulary List published by the Ministry of Education in September 2021.Click on the blue text to see the list, with Hebrew translations of the words and with the words used in one or more sentences. Synonyms 1 Match each word or chunk with its synonym or description. damage harm device tool, instrument emphasis stress, focus equipment gear, set of tools failure fiasco, flop CLOZE 1In each space, add the most suitable word or chunk from the word bank. 1. Despite the pandemic, total unemployment has decreased in the past twelve months.2. Research has demonstrated that babies can recognize their mother's voice very soon after birth.3. We need someone really efficient who can organize the office and make it run smoothly.4. The house looked strangely familiar, though she knew she'd never been there before.5. The human ear cannot hear very high-frequency sounds.6. The findings of the survey puzzle me - they're not at all what I would have expected.7. Red Cross officials estimate that 20 000 refugees streamed into the city last week.8. She was, he says, the most violent woman he had encountered in 13 years as an officer.9. The tragedy directed public attention away from the government's domestic problems.10. All our profits are re-invested in research and development. Synonyms 2 Match each word or chunk with its synonym or description. to flow to run to function to work, run, operate to display to show, present to employ to use to establish to found CLOZE 2In each space, add the most suitable word or chunk from the word bank. 1. Many people have stopped buying the product, despite repeated assurances that it is safe,2. Starvation and disease have killed thousands of refugees.3. The government had brought the country to the edge of a catastrophe.4. They've already run out of money and the building isn't even half-finished.5. Modern cosmology believes the Universe to have come into existence about fifteen billion years ago.6. Virtual Reality aims to give us artificial worlds to explore, outside normal space and time.7. The map shows all the important geographical features of the region.8. It was something of a hollow victory - she won the case but lost all her savings in legal fees.9. The reason for the disaster was engine failure, not human error.10. You can use italics or capitals to emphasize a word in a piece of writing. 11. The report is highly critical of safety standards at the factory. Synonyms 3 Match each word or chunk with its synonym or description. eventually finally, in the end frequently often, regularly essentially basically entirely completely easily without any effort, unquestionably CLOZE 3In each space, add the most suitable word or chunk from the word bank. 1. There's a law to protect refugees from forcible return to countries where they face persecution.2. The police have found no evidence of a terrorist link with the murder.3. We will be speaking to a spokeswoman for the environmental group Greenpeace.4. I'm looking for a job which will enable me to develop my skills.5. We live within walking distance of my wife's parents.6. The discovery of a body in the undergrowth started a murder enquiry.7. A witness gave a detailed description of the man.8. The building isn't designed very well from the point of view of wheelchair access.9. The villagers are furious about the decision to close the railway station.10. The police are trying to determine the series of events that led up to the murder.11. For the experiment to be valid, it is essential to record the data accurately.