Beginning Of Universe # The Quiz

Beginning Of Universe is a passage that provides you a flair of how the reading passage in IELTS are. To help you in understanding the passage more, the vocabulary is provided. Now, since you are at this post, I hope you have gone through the earlier post very well. Once you are done grasping the words given there, go for the following quiz.
There are two columns. You need to match the word with its correct meaning.

 WORDS  MEANINGS
 1. skeptics  (i)a period of 100 years
 2.undeterred  (ii)not changed
 3.unchanged  (iii)position in life as determined by wealth
 4.clockwork  (iv)a person who judges, evaluates, or criticizes
 5.priest  (v)the mechanism of a clock
 6.primeval  (vi)based on reason
 7.unimaginably  (vii)to remain or stay on in a place longer than is usual or expected, as if from reluctance to leave
 8.giant  (viii)to burst, fly into pieces, or break up violently with a loud report, as a boiler from excessive pressure of steam
 9.afterglow  (ix)a person inclined to question or doubt accepted opinions
 10.astronomer  (x)difficult or impossible to imagine or comprehend
 11.static  (xi)showing little or no change
 12.proponents  (xii)marked by or given to using irony in order to mock or convey contempt
 13.rewound  (xiii)persevering with something despite setbacks
 14.sarcastically  (xiv)renowned, well known
 15.dismissed  (xv)the pleasant remembrance of a past experience, glory,etc
 16.reasoned  (xvi)to discard or reject
 17.celebrated  (xvii)a person whose office it is to perform religious rites, and especially to make sacrificial offerings
 18. critics  (xviii)n expert in science, especially one of the physical or natural sciences
 19.exploding  (xix)to increase in extent, size, volume, scope, etc
 20.expanding  (xx)a person or thing of unusually great size, power, importance, etc.;major figure; legend
 21.fortune  (xxi)to wind back to or toward the beginning; reverse
 22.linger  (xxii)of or relating to the first age or ages, especially of the world
 23.scientist  (xxiii)a person who puts forward a proposition or proposal
 24.centuries  (xxiv)an expert in astronomy; a scientific observer of the celestial bodies

ANSWERS

  1. ix
  2. xii
  3. ii
  4. v
  5. xvii
  6. xxii
  7. x
  8. xx
  9. xv
  10. xxiv
  11. xi
  12. xxiii
  13. xxi
  14. xii
  15. xvi
  16. vi
  17. xiv
  18. iv
  19. viii
  20. xix
  21. iii
  22. vii
  23. xviii
  24. i

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