Question. George Turnip was a highly respected vegetarian but the press were making serious ....... about him.
(a) accusations
(b) insinuations
(c) intimations
(d) allegations
Answer. D
Question. George denied everything and said he would ....... any newspaper which dared to print stories about him.
(a) sow
(b) see
(c) sue
(d) sew
Answer. C
Question. George had a very well paid contract with a television advertiser of garden peas and he didn't want to fall out....... the company.
(a) of
(b) with
(c) over
(d) under
Answer. B
Question. The contract stated that he would never eat any meat ........
(a) whatsoever
(b) whosoever
(c) howsoever
(d) whichsoever
Answer. A
Question. Wherever George went, journalists would follow him to try and find a way to ....... him.
(a) exhort
(b) exercise
(c) expose
(d) extract
Answer. C
Question. Even in his own house he was not safe because cameras would ....... on him.
(a) spy
(b) speak
(c) spook
(d) spoof
Answer. A
Question. Once he was photographed eating in his dining room and the caption read: 'A picture of a ....... eating sausages'.
(a) freak
(b) frump
(c) frame
(d) fraud
Answer. D
Question. As it turned out these were not sausages but in fact very big carrots and the photographer had to pay enormous ........
(a) harms
(b) hurts
(c) damages
(d) injuries
Answer. C
Question. In the end the pressure became too much for George and he confessed his ....... secret.
(a) guilt
(b) guilty
(c) gilt
(d) gilded
Answer. B
Question. He admitted eating a meat pie every day. As the news headlines announced: '....... vegetarian eats his own words'.
(a) Bogus
(b) Bonus
(c) Bulbous
(d) Bilious
Answer. A