ADJECTIVES 1 CHECK YOUR ENGLISH FOR MEDICINE

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ADJECTIVES 1

Complete the sentences using the adjectives in the box. Use each adjective once only. The first one has been done for you as an example.

aware    compatible    confused    delicate    depressed    hoarse    hygienic    inactive    inborn    incipient    infectious    inoperable     insanitary     lethal     motionless     poisonous     predisposed     regular     safe     severe

1	This is a ____safe_____  painkiller, with no harmful side-effects.
2	Some mushrooms are good to eat and some are ______________ .
3	The surgeons are trying to find a donor with a ______________ blood group.
4	The surgeon decided that the cancer was ______________ .
5	These fumes are ______________ if inhaled.
6	The body has an ______________ tendency to reject transplanted organs.
7	The tests detected ______________ diabetes mellitus.
8	The serum makes the poison ______________.
9	A ______________ outbreak of whooping cough occurred during the winter.
10	Old people can easily become ______________ if they are moved from their homes.
11	Catatonic patients can sit ______________ for hours.
12	Don't touch food with dirty hands: it isn't ______________.
13	All the members of the family are ______________ to vascular diseases.
14	She is not ______________ of what is happening around her.
15	The bones of a baby's skull are very ______________.
16	Cholera spread rapidly because of the ______________ conditions in the town.
17	He was ______________ after his exam results.
18	He was advised to make ______________ visits to the dentist.
19	This strain of flu is highly ______________.
20	He became ______________ after shouting too much.

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