English vocabulary test 1: Choose the correct words to fill in the blanks: destruction, fade, prestigious, advanced, mauvine, substance, revolutionised, indigenous, synthetic, contemporary, derived, memorialise, resistant, extraordinary

Sea snails were the source of perhaps the most (1)_____________ and expensive dye in antiquity: Tyrian purple.

The dye substance was (2)_______________ from the mucus in the snail’s hypobranchial gland, so snail harvesting required (3)___________ knowledge of biology.

In 1856, William Perkin obtained a black (4)___________ that, when extracted with ethanol, turned into a purple liquid that stained fabric and did not (5)_________ with time. This was the birth of (6)___________, which (7)__________ both chemistry and fashion.

Over time, technologies behind (8)____________ organic dye and paints became one of the main driving forces in chemistry.

Surprisingly, these ancient pigments are still used for painting rubber, cement, paper, and plastic, and some (9)____________ artists even use ochres in their paintings.

Tyrian purple was developed at the end of the 19th century, which saved sea snail populations from imminent (10)____________ at hands of textile manufacturers.

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