Answer Key

Vocabulary test

Drag & drop: Fill in the missing expression. Use the following words and phrases:
  • performance
  • appeal
  • murder
  • freeze
  • expand
  • sentence
  • validity
  • collapse
  • theft
  • peak
  1.  [Theft] means taking someone's property, including cash, goods, or even ideas, such as for products, designs, or inventions.
  2.  [Validity] , the period of time that a contract effects the parties involved, is also used to talk about things like passports, driving licenses, and passwords.
  3.  [Peak] can mean the high point a stock reaches in a given period, or the top of a mountain.
  4.  [Freeze] is a verb for fixing something at a price or level, and also for the physical process of turning liquids into solids.
  5.  [Appeal] can mean to ask for a case to be rejudged, or to make a plea to someone for something, such as help.
  6. Things that can  [expand] include the size of the economy, a balloon when filled with air, and your waistline if you eat too much.
  7.  [Performance] can be a term relating to actions dictated by a contract, or to a group of actors doing Romeo and Juliet on stage for an audience.
  8. Things that can  [collapse] include the stock market, confidence, and old or damaged buildings.
  9.  [Sentence] is both a term for criminal punishment and for this group of words you are reading that is followed by this period.
  10.  [Murder] mysteries were the speciality of the British writer Agatha Christie.