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Vocabulary exercises

I. Match these terms with their definitions

1. allowance

a) a group of people who work together to do a particular job or who are together for a particular purpose.

2. artificial

b) a legal process in which a judge and a jury in a court of law examine information to decide whether someone is guilty of a crime.

3. assent

c) an amount of money that you are given regularly or for a special purpose.

4. body

d) an illegal action.

5. creation

e) an organization that is part of, or works for, a larger organization or group.

6. embodiment

f) approval or agreement from someone who has authority.

7. executive

g) concerned with making laws.

8. government

h) having the function of carrying out plans or orders etc.

9. judicial

i) money that you receive as payment from the organization you work for, usually paid to you every month.

10. legislative

j) not real or not made of natural things but made to be like something that is real or natural.

11. monarchy

k) relating to the law, judges, or their decisions.

12. offence

l) someone who has broken the law and is punished for it.

13. offender

m) something that is very typical of an idea or quality.

14. organ

n) something that you ought to do because it is morally or socially right.

15. prevention

o) the act of creating something.

16. responsibility

p) the group of people who govern a country or state.

17. retirement

q) the period after you have stopped work usually because of your age.

18. salary

r) the system in which a country is ruled by a king or queen.

19. trial

s) when something bad is stopped from happening.

II. Match the verbs on the left with their corresponding definitions on the right

1. to challenge

a) to decrease in quantity or importance.

2. to coordinate

b) to arrange for a meeting to take place and order people to come to it.

3. to decline

c) to be in charge of an activity or person, and make sure that things are done in the correct way.

4. to dismiss

d) to formally end a parliament, business arrangement, marriage etc.

5. to dis­solve

e) to organize an activity so that the people involved in it work well together and achieve a good result.

6. to summon

f) to refuse to accept that something is right, fair, or legal.

7. to supervise

g) to tell someone that they are allowed to go, or are no longer needed.

III. Match the words in column a with their synonyms in column b and antonyms in column c

A

B

C

Word

Synonym

Antonym

1. ancient

2a. different

3a.acquired

2. artificial

2b. essential

3b. actual

3. continuous

2c. everlasting

3c. broken

4. hereditary

2d. highest

3d. general

5. important

2e. inheritable

3e. genuine

6. national

2f. logical

3f. identical

7. particular

2g. man-made

3g. irrational

8. public

2h. nationwide

3h. local

9. rational

2i. old

3i. lowest

10. supreme

2j. significant

3j. modern

11. various

2k. specific

3k. private

12. virtual

2l. universal

3l. unimportant

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