Word Formation

• WF001-Word Formation Exercises

• Gap-fill exercise

• CAE Word Formation 

   

  

   

   Muscle Cars

  

  Muscle cars were never intended to be valuable. In fact, the whole idea behind
  muscle cars was to make them (1) ... and fast. Muscle cars were stripped-down	EXPENSIVE
  versions of the most (2) ... homely, and basic mass-produced cars to ever roll out	UTILITY
  of Detroit. These rattle trap, bare bones, crude devices were built to conform to
  a price point with little regard given to sophistication or (3) ..., and aimed squarely	LONG
  at the (4) ... market. And this market couldn't get enough of them. These were the	YOUNG
  cars every red-blooded American kid wanted. The image, the speed, the (5) ...	LIFE
  were all highly addictive. Looking back, the muscle car years were (6) ... brief	RELATIVE
  moment in time that we will never see the likes of again. It was a perfect storm,
  just what the market wanted, and was presented at the right place in the right time.
  So how did these seemingly (7) ... cars, built in large numbers and owned by	DISPOSE
  kids who (8) ... tried to kill them from the first twist of the key, become so valuable?	LITERAL
  More (9) ..., why did they become so valuable? Most people are astounded when	IMPORT
  they hear the recent sales results of the most (10) ... muscle cars. We call them	DESIRE
  two-comma cars, cars that are worth so much money that you need two commas
  to separate all the zeroes in the price.