CAE Vocabulary Test Online

This is a pure web app that evaluates your CAE vocabulary skills. The app has a built-in basic level CAE vocabulary of 1200 words, which can help you devise a vocabulary-building plan to prepare for the test.
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Before the CAE exam, students usually try to enhance their vocabulary as much as possible. Vocabulary is definitely the base for thinking, talking, reading, and writing, which is the foundation of any language skills.

This app, CAE Vocabulary Test Online, is a tool to help you build CAE vocabulary with a built-in set of 1200 basic words from the 4000 CAE Vocabulary List.

It is a game-style app. You don't need a detailed plan or schedule to use it. Anytime and anywhere, you can access its web pages and practice or test as long as you have the Internet. Some people use it as a tool to evaluate CAE vocabulary. Others use it to study new words or review known words. Based on lots of exercises, you may finally become familiar with the built-in vocabulary and keep it warm until the test day.

The app's primary functionality is to create CAE word question sheets dynamically. Its core features include showing quizzes and auto-checking answers. Students can also store the results of each test for further analysis. The data is helpful in comparing with previous data or even others' data to improve performance.

The app has some extra features that similar tools rarely have. It includes a sample sentence for each word, which helps a lot when learning new words. It also provides definitions of 9 languages for every word and lets ESL students select their mother language and integrate it with an English explanation.

The app needs to store your test data because its core features rely on results from previous practices. So you should sign up for any activities. The CAE Vocabulary Test Online is free. You can use a generic examword.com account (email/access code) to sign in. If you don't have an account yet, creating one only takes a few minutes. Sign up and start to enjoy this fantastic web app!
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acquainted
 
 
(1)
a.  E.g. Henri de Lubac and Karol Wojtyla, who later became Pope, were already acquainted from the days of the Second Vatican Council.
Select answer:
having precise or logical relevance; pertaining or relating
known by or familiar with another; informed or familiar
intensely cold; lacking warmth; stiff and formal in manner
inhaling and exhaling; breathing
firmly established by nature or habit
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clinic
 
 
(2)
n.  E.g. In one of the worst-hit villages in the Bachu area, authorities say about a thousand homes collapsed and at least one school and a clinic.
Select answer:
art or science of flying; flight; aeronautics
canal; deep furrow or ditch; long, steep-sided valley on the ocean floor
healthcare facility for outpatient care
expression of disagreement and disapproval; complain against
form of government; government in power; administration; prevailing social system or pattern
Don't select.
deter
 
 
(3)
v.  E.g. He hopes a charge would not deter people from enjoying this great invention.
Select answer:
drill; make a hole in or through, with or as if with a drill
gaze intently; stare; scrutinize; read or study carefully and attentively
frighten; fill with terror
keep from; stop; prevent or discourage from acting
follow, discover; make a mark or lines on a surface
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distress
 
 
(4)
n.  E.g. Nations have been in distress from the days of Julius Caesar.
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drawback; defect; hinder; unfavorable condition or circumstance
invoice; act; proposal; statement or list of particulars, such as a theater program or menu
discomfort; cause strain, anxiety, or suffering to
faithfulness to obligations, duties, or observances
failure; breakdown; faulty or abnormal functioning
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foremost
 
 
(5)
a.  E.g. I will consult with our friends, but it's going to be what's in the interests of our country first and foremost.
Select answer:
full of initiative; marked by aggressive ambition and energy and initiative
easily managed or controlled; governable; easily handled or worked; docile
having a dull edge or end; not sharp; lacking in feeling; insensitive
leading; main; primary; first in time or place
extensive; having wide-ranging influence or effect:
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immense
 
 
(6)
a.  E.g. He expressed immense disappointment with the way the Clintons have run the campaign.
Select answer:
in opposing direction; harmful or unfavorable; acting or serving to oppose
free from ostentation or pretension; distinct; distinguishable
impassable; unable to be bridged or crossed; impossible to span
having a pleasing flavor; savory
enormous; boundless; so great as to be beyond measurement
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magnify
 
 
(7)
v.  E.g. If increasing the text size via the browser or Windows options does not make text easy to read, then the next step is to magnify the screen.
Select answer:
intensify; increase; make greater in size; enlarge
injure or hurt; become worse; affect negatively
quiet or bring under control by physical force or persuasion; make less intense; tone down
duplicate, copy, reproduce, or repeat; fold over or bend back
frighten; alarm; strike with sudden fear
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outgrow
 
 
(8)
v.  E.g. Childhood allergies to milk and eggs appear to be harder to outgrow than in the past, US researchers said on Wednesday.
Select answer:
disfigure; destroy; frustrate; overcome or vanquish; resist with
improve and prepare, as by plowing or fertilizing, for raising crops; promote the growth of
handle or manage carefully or skillfully; handle with a deceptive
give in; surrender; give forth a natural product; be productive
grow too large for; lose or discard in the course of maturation
Don't select.
prosperity
 
 
(9)
n.  E.g. The expected increase in prosperity from the new system did not immediately come.
Select answer:
handling; care that are intended to relieve illness or injury
forerunner; one who precedes an event and indicates its approach
good fortune; financial success; physical well-being
follow a certain course; move ahead; travel onward
god; divinity; supernatural things
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respective
 
 
(10)
a.  E.g. She says the leaders will brief each other on their respective domestic development plan.
Select answer:
individual; relating to particular persons or things, each to each; particular; respectful; regardful
known by or familiar with another; informed or familiar
approving or pleasing; granting what has been desired or requested
having three dimensions
exasperating; annoying; causing irritation; vexing; provoking
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sloping
 
 
(11)
a.  E.g. This is an area of gently sloping hills.
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harsh or corrosive in tone; painful; acrid; acrimonious
insulate against noise; impermeable to noise
hollow; curved like inner surface of sphere
incomparable; having no match or equal; unsurpassed; peerless
slanting; inclining or inclined from the plane of the horizon
Don't select.
verdict
 
 
(12)
n.  E.g. For weeks EU institutions have been waiting for the verdict of two nations at the heart of Europe.
Select answer:
excitement beyond the bounds of sobriety; drunkenness; poisoning by a drug or toxic substance
formal public statement; act of making known publicly
elementary particle with negative charge
extreme end or tip of a finger
findings of jury on issues of fact for decision; judgment or opinion
Don't select.
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