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INTERMEDIATE VOCABULARY 3
by Elek Máthé

Eponyms are words that came into the language from the name of a person or a place. Read the definitions below and match them to the eponyms on the right. Write the correct letters in the boxes. When you are done, click on 'Check answers'.

1. British policeman
2. tissue paper used as a handkerchief
3. when people decide to completely ignore somebody or something, to show that they dislike them
4. a closely fitting piece of clothing usually worn when doing exercise or dancing
5. vacuum cleaner
6. when angry people kill a person without a trial
7. a short, humourous poem; often nonsense
8. a game played by two or four people with rackets, on a court with a net
9. long trousers with very wide legs
10. the spirit or soul
11. an imaginary, wonderful land; paradise
12. a place where water with minerals in it comes out of the water
13. a woman who is interested in intellectual ideas
14. ballpoint pen
15. swimming dress worn by women; has two very small parts
16. long rubber boots
a. pantaloon
b. spa
c. limerick
d. bluestocking
e. bobby
f. leotard
g. Shangri-la
h. badminton
i. boycott
j. lynch
k. psyche
l. biro
m. hoover
n. kleenex
o. bikini
p. wellington


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