IELTS Vocabulary 20

12 Aug, 2011Archive, IELTS
IELTS Vocabulary 20

IELTS Vocabulary 20

Small Quantities

 

 

The following words represent small pieces or quantities. Put each in its correct place in the sentences below. Some words must be used more than once.

glimmer – grain – fragment – dot – shred – crumb – blade – trace – speck



(a) She was very houseproud. There wasn’t a …………. of dirt in her kitchen.
(b) They were so hungry they ate the whole loaf of bread without letting a single …………. fall to the ground.
(c) The desert stretched for miles. Nothing green. Not a single …………. of grass.
(d) We watched the ship as it sailed away until it was just a …………. on the horizon.
(e) His views are dangerous and extreme, and yet there is a …………. of truth in what he says.
(f) The accusations against him are completely groundless. There isn’t a …………. of evidence to support them.
(g) Archaeologists are examining a …………. of a vase which they think is over 5,000 years old.
(h) There now seems to be a …………. of hope that the strike will be averted.
(i) The famine is so bad in that area that the people haven’t seen a single …………. of rice for weeks.
(j) One day in June 1987, he suddenly disappeared without …………. and no one has seen him since,
(k) The police found a tiny …………. of lipstick on the wineglass.

 

Answers:

a) speck b) crumb c) blade d) dot e) grain f) shred

g) fragment h) glimmer i) gram j) trace k) trace

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