IELTS - Lesson 11 Exercise

Medical Science

1. abscess - swollen, inflamed area of body tissues. It is from the Latin abscessus (“to grow from”). In was originally though that the humors (liquids) went from the body into the swelling.

2. aphasia - loss of the power to use or understand words, usually caused by brain disease or injury.

3. arteriosclerosis - a thickening and hardening of the walls of the arteries as in old age.

4. biopsy - the cutting out a piece of tissue for diagnostic examination by microscope.

5. cadaver - dead body; corpse for dissection. It is from the Latin word cardere, which means “to fall.”

6. carcinogen - any substance that causes cancer.

7. comatose - as if in a coma; lethargic. The Greek word coma means “deep sleep.”

8. etiology - the science of the causes and origins of disease.

9. malingerer - one who fakes illness and pretends to be suffering.

10. mastectomy - the surgical removal of a breast.

11. prosthesis - replacement for a missing part of the body.

12. simian - of or like a monkey or an ape.

13. therapeutic - curative; serving to heal.

14. tumescence - swelling.

15. vasectomy - the surgical removal of a duct that conveys the male sperm—the vas deferens

Exercises

I. Which Word Comes to Mind?

In each of the following, read the statement, then circle the word that comes to mind.

1. Eugene O’Neill’s play, The Hairy Play

(vasectomy, biopsy, simian)

2. The Federal Drug Administration’s report on harmful food addictives

(aphasia, carcinogen, prosthesis)

3. Breast surgery

(etiology, malingerer, mastectomy)

4. Days of anxious waiting for the unconscious patient to awaken

(abscess, comatose, therapeutic)

5. A disease of old age

(tumescence, cadaver, arteriosclerosis)

6. Malignant or benign

(comatose, biopsy, aphasia)

7. Visit to the morgue

(cadaver, abscess, simian)

8. A great pretender

(etiology, malingerer, carcinogen)

9. Walking with a wooden leg

(prosthesis, comatose, arteriosclerosis)

10. Vigorous exercise

(therapeutic, tumescence, apasia)

II. True or False?

In the space provided, indicate whether each statement is true or false.

_________1. Good news can serve as a therapeutic drug for many patients.
_________2. Speech therapy is prescribed for many people who suffer from aphasia.
_________3. When the government suspects the presence of a carcinogen in a food, it increases sales and distribution
_________4. A wooden leg was a common prosthesis years ago.
_________5. Most motion picture horror stories have at least one cadaver to boast about.
_________6. After the doctor drained my abscess, I immediately felt better.
_________7. While awaiting the results of the biopsy, Eleanor fainted.
_________8. Snakes have a traditional simian characteristic.
_________9. Researchers are at work on the etiology of lung cancer.
_________10. In a comatose state, Manute was able to resume his basketball career.

Home

1	Lesson-1	Jingoist, Lothario, Maverick, Nemesis, Philanderer, Philippic, Procrustean, Protean, Pyrrhic victory, Quixotic, Saturnine, Solecism, Spoonerism, Sybarite, Tawdry
2	Lesson-2	Acidulous, Baleful, Bellicose, Bilious, Bumptious, Captious, Churlish, Complaisant, Contrite, Convivial, Craven, Debonair, Dyspeptic, Lachrymose, Neurasthenic
3	Lesson-3	cabal, camaraderie, caste, cortege, detente, echelon, ecumenical, elite, esprit de corps, freemasonry, genealogy, hierarchy, hobnob, liaison, rapprochement
4	Lesson-4	adagio, andante, arpeggio, bravura, contralto, crescendo, falsetto, fortissimo, imbroglio, intaglio, largo, libretto, salvo, staccato, vendetta
5	Lesson-5	alienist, amanuensis, beadle, cosmetologist, dermatologist, entomologist, farrier, graphologist, internist, lapidary, ophthalmologist, ornithologist, osteopath, pharyngologist, physiologist
6	Lesson-6	Adonis, Bacchanal, Cassandra, Cornucopia, Erotic, Herculean, Hermetic, Hydra, Hymeneal, Iridescent, Narcissism, Odyssey, Olympian, Palladium, Phoenix
7	Lesson-7	aberrant, anthropomorphism, archetype, authoritarian, cathedrals, demography, epidemiology, euthanasia, extrovert, psychic, psychopath, psychotherapy, schizophrenia, subliminal, traums
8	Lesson-8	aficionado, barrio, bonanza, bravado, desperado, flotilla, grandee, hacienda, lariat, machismo, manana, palmetto, renegade, siesta, torero
9	Lesson-9	anachronism, anon, antebellum, antediluvian, atavism, augury, betimes, biennial, diurnal, eon, ephemeral, epoch, generation, score, tercentenary
10	Lesson-10	bane, deign, eke, knell, mete, moot, mulct, plumb, quail, roil, ruck, shunt, svelte, thrall, tryst
11	Lesson-11	abscess, aphasia, arteriosclerosis, biopsy, cadaver, carcinogen, comatose, etiology, malingerer, mastectomy, prosthesis, simian, therapeutic, tumescence, vasectomy
12	Lesson-12	bovine, equine, feline, hircine, leonine, lupine, ophidian, ovine, piscine, porcine, saurian, taurine, ursine, vixen, vulpine
13	Lesson-13	atonement, bicameral, Decalogue, decimate, dichotomy, double-think, millennium, nihilism, penultimate, primeval, protocol, quatrain, quintessence, tessellated, untrammeled
14	Lesson-14	adjudicate, appellate, collusion, deposition, equity, exhume, incommunicado, intestate, ipso facto, lien, litigation, perjury, pettifogger, tort, tribunal
15	Lesson-15	circumspect, demure, dispassionate, dolorous, edacious, effete, feisty, flaccid, flippant, florid, glabrous, imperious, ingenious, intractable, intransigent
16	Lesson-16	alchemy, arcane, conundrum, demonology, exorcise, inscrutable, pallor, phenomenology, polygraph, purloin, ritual, shamus, soothsayer, thaumaturgy, warlock
17	Lesson-17	archaeology, elfin, infinitesimal, Lilliputian, megalopolis, minimize, minutiae, palatial, peccadillo, picayune, simulacrum, soupcon, teeming, titanic, vista
18	Lesson-18	accolade, conclave, dirge, draconian, epicurean, gossamer, immolate, juggernaut, junket, ostracism, proletariat, rigmarole, rubric, Socratic, sycophant
19	Lesson-19	acrophobia, bibliophile, claustrophobia, Francophile, hydrophobia, misanthropy, misogyny, paranoid, philately, Philistine, phylogeny, philology, Russo phobia, triskaidekaphobia, xenophobia
20	Lesson-20	archaeology, cardiology, ecology, endocrinology, gerontology, gynecology, morphology, necrology, neurology, paleontology, pathology, rhinology, seismology, speleology, toxicology
21	Lesson-21	jejune, libidinous, licentious, mercurial, meretricious, minatory, mutable, niggardly, nonchalant, noxious, obdurate, obtuse, officious, omniscient, pusillanimous
22	Lesson-22	amicus curiae, arson, barrister, embezzle, extradition, habeas corpus, immaterial, incarcerate, indeterminate, larceny, litigious, miscreant, perpetrator, plagiarism, probation
23	Lesson-23	avant-garde, bete noire, bot mot, coup de grace, cul-de-sac, dues ex machina, fait accompli, fin de siecle, gauche, junta, laissez-faire, mot juste, non compos mentis, non sequitur, sine qua non
24	Lesson-24	coiffure, demarche, denouement, éclat, élan, entrepreneur, impasse, ingénue, malaise, mélange, repartee, sangfroid, tete-a-tete, tour de force, vignette
25	Lesson-25	acrid, addle, ado, alms, amulet, aperture, askew, bauble, bevy, bilk, blithe, careen, chary, nabob, onus
26	Lesson-26	antaean, argonaut, calliope, cyclopean, gorgon, harpy, Homeric, myrmidon, oracular, paean, plutonian, Promethean, stygian, terpsichorean, thespian
27	Lesson-27	pedantic, pertinacious, pontifical, pretentious, prolix, puerile, quiescent, recalcitrant, restive, ribald, sardonic, sedulous, sleazy, supercilious, voluptuous
28	Lesson-28	a cappella, ad hoc, bon vivant, de facto, gemutlich, leitmotif, nolo contendere, per excellence, parvenu, piece de resistance, postprandlal, quid pro quo, qui vive, savoir faire, sub rosa, vis-à-vis
29	Lesson-29	ambivalent, bucolic, crotchety, dilatory, disconsolate, dudgeon, froward, genteel, jocund, loquacious, splenetic, tendentious, truculent, vacuous, venal
30	Lesson-30	amorphous, gargantuan, iota, lissome, macrocosm, magnitude, magnum opus, microcosm, micrometer, scabrous, scintilla, serpentine, sinuous, smidgen, tenuous
31	Lesson-31	bathos, malapropism, metaphor, metonymy, onomatopoeia, oxymoron, panegyric, paradigm, paralipsis, pleonasm, polyglot, semantics, simile, synecdoche, threnody
32	Lesson-32	argot, aspersion, badinage, bombast, braggadocio, censure, countermand, gainsay, gobbledegook, guttural, harangue, jargon, mellifluous, resonant, sententious
33	Lesson-33	canon, hegemony, oligarchy, peonage, pharisaical, plebiscite, plenipotentiary, proxy, recession, regicide, renascent, reprisal, subversion, surrogate, votary
34	Lesson-34	antipodal, cartography, concierge, hegira, hustings, landmark, peripatetic, portmanteau, safari, tandem, transmigrate, traverse, trek, wanderlust, wayfarer
35	Lesson-35	a la carte, assuage, comestible, condiment, cuisine, culinary, gastronomic, gourmand, manna, palatable, piquant, refection, repast, subsistence, viands
36	Lesson-36	antic, beguile, bonhomie, dalliance, divertissement, euphoria, guffaw, insouciance, japery, regale, risible, roguish, roister, squib, waggish
37	Lesson-37	anarchy, bourgeois, bureaucracy, demagogue, ethos, gerrymander, imperialism, Machiavellian,. martial, muckraker, partisan, reactionary, schism, suffrage, totalitarian
38	Lesson-38	abnegation, abscond, affidavit, altercation, battery, bequest, cause celebre, caveat emptor, codicil, contiguous, contraband, contumacious, disenfranchise, injunction, jurisprudence
39	Lesson-39	aphorism, dogma, empirical, epistemology, eschatology, fallacy, hedonism, pragmatism, predestination, ratiocination, syllogism, teleology, tenet, theosophy, utilitarian
40	Lesson-40	agnostic, apocalyptic, apocryphal, apostate, apotheosis, benediction, blasphemy, deist, infidel, mantra, ontology, pantheism, sacrilegious, syncretism, theodicy