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  • I am not happy with my neighbours as they can be very ............ sometimes. (consider)
    INCONSIDERATE
  • Recent investigations have led to a .......... discovery (signify)
    SIGNIFICANT
  • My sister lived in Osaka for a year, so her ..............of Japanese food is really excellent. (know)
    KNOWLEDGE
  • Important ......... research is carried out in the laboratories of the university. (science)
    SCIENTIFIC
  • I would hate to teach children. They always ................. (behave)
    MISBEHAVE
  • We must make the necessary ........ for our trip next month. (arrange)
    ARRANGEMENTS
  • Some scientists fear that the environmental damage caused by global warming is ................ (reverse)
    IRREVERSIBLE
  • Unfortunately, the medicine was .............. , so he didn't recover. (effect)
    INEFFECTIVE
  • She is always so ..................., thinking about everybody's needs (think)
    THOUGHTFUL
  • The ....... of the passengers is the most important thing at the moment. (safe)
    SAFETY
  • His answers were very ......... so he failed the Maths exam. (accurate)
    INACCURATE
  • It is becoming .......... obvious that politicians only think in terms of four years ahead, which is proving to be disastrous for the environment. (increase)
    INCREASINGLY
  • Luckily, very few areas of the country were ............... by the floods. (affect)
    UNAFFECTED
  • The results were .......... good. (relative)
    RELATIVELY
  • Coffee shops in Europe declined in popularity in the late eighteenth century due to the greater ......... of tea,. (consume)
    CONSUMPTION
  • The bad weather affected our ........ of the game. (enjoy)
    ENJOYMENT
  • People used to have to pay an .................... charge of one penny to enter a coffee shop, (admit)
    ADMITTANCE
  • I’m not ................... that this latest invention will make people’s lives better. (convince)
    CONVINCED
  • Unfortunately, the children ............ when they visited the aquarium. (behave)
    MISBEHAVED
  • Finding a cure for the disease turned out to be much more ..................  than the scientists expected. (challenge)
    CHALLENGING
  • The experiments we did in the laboratory last week were all very ............... . (succeed)
    SUCCESSFUL
  • They kept in touch .......... for years. (regular)
    REGULARLY
  • His speech was ................ . I thought he'd never stop talking (end)
    ENDLESS
  • Many people are .............. with the air quality in the town and think it should be improved. (satisfy)
    DISSATISFIED
  • That a ....... remark, and it made his friend feel bad. (think)
    THOUGHTLESS