399
41. My mom really shouted at me for coming home late.
A) gave me elephants
B) gave me evil
C) gave me an earful
42. Tom has lost a lot of weight so something must be worrying him.
A) egging
B) eating
C) encouraging
43. Wow! This movie is really great.
A) earning
B) easy
C) evil
44. The two cowboys looked at each other and then walked on.
A) egged
B) entered
C) eyeballed
45. This jazz is really great.
A) faded
B) far-out
C) foggy
46. The heroin addict needed a dose of drugs really badly.
A) five
B) fix
C) flag
47. He's too unreliable to keep that job.
A) flaky
B) forty
C) flexed
48. He lost control of himself suddenly when he heard the news.
A) filled up
B) flopped
C) flipped-out
49. You should listen to the other side of the argument before you decide.
A) flip
B) fox
C) five
50. I can't believe he called the police about the noise. He's such an old-
fashioned person.
A) a fossil
B) a fish
C) a foam
51. I really became interested in computers at school.
A) got into
B) gave out to
C) got off on
52. I'm sorry, but I just don't understand.
A) get with it
B) go for it
C) get it
53. Hurry up and get busy. There is a lot of work to do.
A) Get with it
B) Go for it
C) Go get it
54. Did you see the rock group's performance last night?
A) girdle
B) gig
C) giggle
55. She's so fashionable and glamorous. I can't understand why she's
with him.
A) grass
B) glitzy
C) gifted
56. Let me have a try.
A) gift
B) go
C) geezer
57. Stop acting so silly.
A) gravy
B) goofy
C) great
58. I've caught you and you can't get away.
A) Golfer
B) Goosey
C) Gotcha
59. That car must have cost over twenty thousand dollars.
A) grand
B) grapes
C) guns
60. Do you have any marijuana?
A) grass
B) gravy
C) grease
61. That's a really disgusting thing to say.
A) groovy
B) ground
C) gross
62. I always look so untidy and unclean after a long airline trip.
A) green
B) grubby
C) geared up
63. When Todd drives it really is both a dangerous and frightening
experience.
A) hairy
B) harmless
C) hanging
64. This matter is too important and serious for me.
A) happy
B) heavy
C) hip
65. Alice is
in the past
now. I don't go out with her anymore.
A) history
B) hip-hop
C) hash
66. That play was a great success.
A) hot
B) hoot
C) hit
67. Who is the boss there these days?
A) hip
B) honcho
C) hole
68. I'll get in a taxi and come right away.
A) hip
B) hid
C) hop
69. Many movies are successful only because of the heavy promotion
and advertising.
A) hoe
B) hype
C) horn
70. The children are a little overexcited.
A) hot
B) hanging
C) hyper
71. They checked our identification cards at the door.
A) inked us
B) I.D.ed us
C) iced us
72. I'm leaving right this minute.
A) I'm hopping.
B) I'm outa here.
C) I'm blue.
73. The car accident left her seriously injured.
A) in a bad way
B) ironed
C) inside-out
74. Marriage it too serious a business for me.
A) intense
B) internal
C) icy
75. I hear he's in trouble at the moment.
A) a jam
B) a jive
C) a jump
76. You shouldn't waste his time or he is going to get angry one of these
days.
A) jazz him
B) jerk him around
C) jangle him
77. He's a real athlete these days.
A) jock
B) jim
C) juice
78. I need to go to the toilet. Can you show me where it is?
A) jump
B) john
C) jug
79. My father thinks that all heavy drug users should be put in jail.
A) joints
B) johnies
C) junkies
80. I don't know how he stays calm and relaxed when she shouts like
that.
A) ketchups
B) knights
C) keeps his cool
81. Wow! This disco is really wild tonight.
A) kickin'
B) kissing
C) kaput
82. I wish he wasn't such a stupid person.
A) kayak
B) kennel
C) klutz
Slang
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