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The key answer of exercise 8

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 10.1 - On the road for the textbook Speakout Advanced - Students' Book with authors Antonia Clare and J. J. Wilson from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Look at six extracts from the texts on pages 116, 117 and in Exercise 6A. Can you think of words / phrases with similar meanings to the words in bold?
  2. Which word in each set has a different meaning?

Answer

a)

  1. journey = voyage, excursion
  2. conceals = keeps out of sight, hides, secretes
  3. gripping = exciting, riveting
  4. embarked on = launched, commenced
  5. spacious = immense, voluminous
  6. mastered = succeeded, developed

b)

  1. tracker
  2. extract
  3. dull
  4. complete
  5. minuscule
  6. train