English Vocabulary Exercises - All Adjectives! (+ derivations) - Exercise 8-5

Matching exercise

Match the items on the right to the items on the left.
1. If we can conserve the _______________ variety of the world's habitats, we will conserve the life within these places.
2. If the Earth didn't radiate back into space as much heat as it receives from the sun, the temperature on our planet would _______________ rise, and life would become impossible.
3. _______________ with a topic you are reading about in a second language makes it easier to guess the meaning of new vocabulary.
4. He thinks his work is _______________ important, so he ignores everything else.
5. Disease is killing people daily due to the _______________ of clean water in the region.
6. He walked _______________ across the room with a large half-empty bottle of vodka in his hand.
7. The people of the far north have devised ingenious methods to endure the _______________ of the Arctic climate.
8. Bob will almost certainly get the job because he has more _______________ than anyone else who applied for it.
9. _______________, the human body cannot go more than a week and a half without water.
10. In March of 1983, Dr. Barney Clark died 112 days after receiving the world's first _______________ heart.
11. The United Nations has questioned the _______________ of the government, due to widespread reports of election fraud.
12. I remember _______________ the first time I jumped out of an airplane.
13. We won't be able to come to your party _______________ because we have a previous engagement.
14. We watched the five-hour movie in its _______________ last night.
15. The _______________ of children makes them frequent targets of human rights violations.