English Vocabulary Exercises - Health & the Body - Exercise 3-5

Matching exercise

Match the items on the right to the items on the left.
1. He has a deep _______________ voice as a result of a lifetime of smoking cigars.
2. My son has always done well in _______________ at school.
3. No one would kiss him on New Year's Eve because he had a big _______________ on his lip.
4. Mahatma Gandhi once said that all crime is a kind of _______________, and should be treated as such.
5. The nicotine in cigarettes is extremely toxic, and has been classified as the most _______________ drug in existence.
6. Joan went to see a _______________ because she is seriously into weight-lifting, and wanted to make sure her diet would help her to build up muscle.
7. The bathroom is quite _______________, with dirty water on the floor and flies buzzing around.
8. Don't scratch your mosquito bites or they could get _______________.
9. The entire town was _______________ up by a crack in the ground that appeared when the earthquake struck.
10. I was so hungry that I felt _______________.
11. The economy is _______________ once again, thanks to a strong dollar.
12. In 1953, a huge storm resulted in the flooding of the entire province of Zeeland in Holland, _______________ 1,800 people, and completely destroying 130 towns.
13. He's pretty _______________ because he eats badly, smokes a lot and never does any kind of exercise.
14. You'll need to get a few _______________ before travelling to that part of the world.
15. He doesn't consider his blindness to be a _______________; to him, it is simply a challenge.
16. Our lakes and rivers are being _______________ by industrial waste.