56. Same word, different meaning TEST YOUR VOCABULARY 3

TEST YOUR VOCABULARY 3

56. Same word, different meaning

In each pair of sentences below, the missing word is the same but the meaning is different. What are the missing words?

1	___change_____	Let’s go out tonight for a ______. I’m fed up with cooking. Have you got any ______? I’ve only got a £10 note.
2	____________	My brother can’t stand the sight of blood. It always makes him ______. Her voice on the phone was so ______ that I could hardly hear it.
3	____________	She doesn’t have a ______ account. She keeps her money under the mattress. We saw him sitting on the river ______ fishing.
4	____________	I can’t ______ that man. He really gets on my nerves. We saw a ______ in the forest when we were camping in California.
5	____________	You have to ______ three egg whites to make this pudding. Argentina ______ Germany 2-0 in the final.
6	____________	I don’t have to wear a ______ to work. I just go in jeans and a T-shirt. She bent down to ______ up her shoelace.
7	____________	She had a cold and the ______ of her nose was red. The waiter was really helpful so we gave him a big ______.
8	____________	She wants curtains that will ______ her carpet. It was the most exciting football ______ I’ve ever seen.
9	____________	Use a first-class ______ if you want the letter to arrive by tomorrow. Everyone began to ______ their feet in time to the music.
10	____________	I’m tired. I think I’ll go and ______ down for a while. I didn’t say that! That’s a ______!
11	____________	I need to go to the gym every day to try to get into ______ again. A rugby ball is a different ______ from a football.
12	____________	She dropped my favourite china vase and it ______. I’ve just spent all my money on a new sound system. I am now completely ______.
13	____________	I parked my car on a double yellow line and I got a £30 ______. I heard the weather forecast and apparently it’s going to be ______today.
14	____________	One, three, five and seven are odd numbers. Two, four six and eight are ______. I’m not going out ______ if it stops raining. I’m too cold and tired.
15	____________	I have absolutely no ______ in politics. I like art, music and literature. You can get about 6% ______ in this savings account.
16	____________	She’s good teacher because she’s very ______. Doctor Fernandez has received another card from a grateful ______.

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