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Exercise 1
Word Bank
Prefixes and Suffixes
Choose the best answer.
1. After listening to everyone's opinions for over an hour, the committee chair remained so ___ that the meeting had to be postponed.
indecisive
decisive
decision
2. Leo has applied for more than 40 jobs since uni graduation. Unfortunately, he has been unable to find permanent work. His period of ___ has now lasted almost 7 months.
employment
unemployment
employee
3. The argument between the two colleagues started because of a simple ___ in a messenger.
understanding
misunderstanding
misunderstand
4. The laboratory accident could have been avoided easily. Investigators concluded that it happened because of one worker's ___.
carefulness
uncarefulness
carelessness
5. At first, some people believed the old factory should be demolished. However, after experts explained how it could be transformed, the building seemed much more ___ than anyone had thought.
useful
useless
unuseful
6. Sara remained ___ even after receiving several rejections.
unhopeful
hopeless
hopeful
7. The company was fined after inspectors discovered that it had been importing and selling counterfeit designer clothing without permission. Such business practices are completely ___.
illegal
dislegal
unlegal
8. The editor liked Daniel's article, but several paragraphs were unclear. She asked him to ___ the introduction so that readers could understand the main idea more easily.
miswrite
rewrite
upwrite
9. The weather became so severe that reaching the missing climbers by helicopter was completely ___.
possible
impossibly
impossible
10. At first, the software seemed far too complicated for the new employees. However, they realised that the instructions were surprisingly ___ after reading the step-by-step guide.
inunderstandable
understandable
understandless
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