GV070 - General Vocabulary

Gap-fill exercise

Fill in all the gaps, then press "Check" to check your answers. Use the "Hint" button to get a free letter if an answer is giving you trouble. You can also click on the "[?]" button to get a clue. Note that you will lose points if you ask for hints or clues!

Choose the correct word for each blank.


  1. We had a beautiful house where we many people.
  2. When I was in college I was happy to with other students.
  3. I'm going up north to Scotland to stay with a few of mine.
  4. The party yesterday was awful. It was a complete .
  5. I had to get up early the next morning so I myself and left quietly.
  6. Please accept my for not being at the meeting. My husband was ill.
  7. of the whole staff, I would like to thank you for coming.
  8. The book has been out of for many years.
  9. I have just read a wonderful about a man who cares for his ill wife.
  10. She has little in with her sister. they're completely different.
  11. At school we had to learn a lot of poems by .
  12. There is an interesting about climate change in yesterday's paper.