English Vocabulary Exercises - Lots of Nouns (and derivations) - Exercise 1-5

Matching exercise

Match the items on the right to the items on the left.
1. She got a nice _______________ of flowers from her co-workers on her birthday.
2. Western ideals of beauty and art are _______________ in Ancient Greece and Rome.
3. The television media always _______________ every story in order to attract viewers.
4. Samurai swords are produced by repeatedly heating, folding and pounding steel into a multi-layered _______________.
5. Dion is _______________ from Pittsburgh, but now lives in Halifax.
6. The monster happily filled his _______________ with bad children, and went home to have a barbecue.
7. The man who designed the White House in Washington, D.C. received $500 and a _______________ of land in the city as payment for his work.
8. The _______________ of the test showed that she is pregnant.
9. The soap opera was originally _______________ "Jennifer's World," but was later changed to "Judy's World."
10. The Panama Canal opened to _______________ in August of 1914.
11. His accusation of _______________ caused her a great deal of pain.
12. Her _______________ is very annoying to her roommates.
13. Morocco has to import a lot of its food because the desert climate affects its _______________ to grow enough food to support its population.
14. This data is _______________ information which cannot be shared with the general public.
15. The _______________ between rich countries and poor, strong nations and weak, is far too wide.