English Vocabulary Exercises - All Adjectives! (+ derivations) - Exercise 6-3

Matching exercise

Match the items on the right to the items on the left.
1. Raising the head _______________, tipping it backward, and closing the eyes usually means "no" in Turkey.
2. My sister has _______________ taste in clothes. She's 25, but she dresses like an old lady.
3. The beaches were _______________; nothing but miles of fine, white sand, and practically no other people.
4. It's pretty _______________ to find a job when you don't have any previous experience.
5. Why did you _______________ run over your little sister's sand castle? I want you to apologize to her.
6. She looked quite _______________ standing next to her darkly tanned friend.
7. Brishkai brought some beautiful souvenirs back from her _______________ trip to Paris.
8. The Andromeda galaxy is the largest member of our _______________ group of galaxies.
9. Ashley is really _______________; she usually gets an A in all her courses.
10. The boy's room in residence is just full of _______________ beer bottles.
11. Memorizing a long list of sentences is not a very _______________ way of learning vocabulary. You need to look at a variety of contexts in order to really understand the word or expression.
12. Young people are often very _______________ about their appearance.
13. We had really _______________ weather when we went camping, and had to cut our holiday short.
14. I enjoy the _______________ exercise of a quick hike up a local hill once a week or so.
15. The guy is 45 years old, and is still _______________ on his parents. I don't know what his problem is.