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Vocabulary Quiz

EnglishSmarts CT Quiz 684

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🔹 to _____ the headlines

🔹 to _____ a pit stop

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vocabulary exercises

Idioms with ‘Make’ (2)

Suzanne
Printable PDF: Idioms-with-Make-2

Choose the correct alternative in brackets.

  1. The traffic was so bad that we got to the hotel very late, and to make _____ worse they couldn’t find our reservation. (issues, matters, thing)

  2. It makes my blood _____ when I see people mistreating animals. (boil, hot, thick)

  3. Grandpa is in a grumpy mood so it’s best if we make ourselves _____ for a few hours. (scarce, splash, tracks)

  4. Lily adores her grandparents’ dog. She always makes a big _____ over him.  (bolt, fool, fuss)

  5. So the waiter overcharged you by fifty pence. You didn’t need to make a _____ about it. It was a just a simple mistake and you embarrassed the poor guy. (cat and mouse, kiss and tell, song and dance)

  6. When Robert quit his job he made no ______ about what he thought of the boss.  (bites, bones, brains)

  7. Harry said there isn’t really a tooth fairy. It’s just make-_____. (believe, imagine, sense)

Answers

1.  matters
2.  boil
3.  scarce
4.  fuss
5.  song and dance
6.  bones
7.  believe

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Vocabulary Quiz

Idioms with ‘MAKE’ (1)

Suzanne

🖨   Idioms with Make (1) – PDF version

Choose the correct alternative in brackets.  

  1. It’s going to make Rachel’s _____ when you tell her you’re taking her and the kids to Australia! She’ll be thrilled. (day, hour, time)
  2. It’s getting late. We should make _____ . (paths, tracks, ways)
  3. Thanks to a private teacher Amaya has made a lot of _____ with her German. (forward, headway, progresses)
  4. As soon as we got into the club we made a _____line for the bar. (bee, fly, moth)
  5. I had made such a _____ ear of my French essay that I decided to start all over again (cow’s, duck’s, pig’s)
  6. It suddenly started to rain heavily while we were walking on the beach so we made a _____ for the car. (comeback, dash, hurry)
  7. I’m really sorry I had to cancel our dinner date yesterday. How can I make _____? (amends, compensations, remedies)
  8. What does this say, Anna? I can’t make head or _____ of your handwriting. (foot, heel, tail) 


Answers

1. tracks
2. headway
3. bee
4. pig’s
5. dash
6. amends
7. tail
8. day

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