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Vocabulary Practice

Exercise 1. Look at the words in bold and try to explain them.

Exercise 2. Fill in the correct word(s) from the list below:

let alone, signify, nutrients, rejecting, gain, limit, predicting, glowing skin, research, adolescence, consume, tend to

Vegetables are an essential part of our diet as they contain a lot of ……… (healthy substances)
I don’t even know what a breadfruit looks like, …………….. what it tastes like! (not to mention)
You should …………. the amount of chocolate you eat if you want to lose weight. (restrict)
The stars on the label …………… that the brandy is of the best quality. (mean)
Scientific …………….. has shown that saturated fats are a major cause of cancer. (investigation)
People who eat lots of sweets ………………… have dental problems. (are likely to)
Jill is overweight because she ate so much junk food during her …………… . (teenage years)
Her …………………….. is a result of all the fruit and vegetables she eats. (healthy-looking complexion)
More and more people are …………………. meat in favor of more fruit and vegetables. (not accepting)
Unless you cut down on junk food and sweets, you will …………………… weight! (put on)
Nutritionists are ……………………………… that junk food consumption will increase in the near future. (foreseeing)
Young people …………………… large amount of carbonated drinks with their meals. (take in)

Exercise 3. Fill in the correct word(s) from the list below. Use the words only once.

room, eating, gourmet, fast-moving, vast, couch-potato, balanced, the pressure, chocolate, to do, heart, high, junk, to keep, saturated, side

Exercise 4. Choose the correct item.

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