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Question 1

Laura:”What a lovely house you have!”
Maria:”__”

Answer 1

Thank you. Hope you will drop in

Question 2

___, we can take another road

Answer 2

If need be

Idiom

If it is necessary

Question 3

For the first few months, the babies looked so alike I couldn’t tell __

Answer 3

which is which

liên quan đến việc phân biệt 2 người/ thứ gần như giống nhau

Question 4

ineptitude

Answer 4

the fact of not being skilled or effective

Question 5

The employees are __ a rally in the city centre to demand higher wages

Answer 5

staging

Question 6

Julie felt unfairly __ when she spoke out against a company proposal and the entire staff team turned against her

Answer 6

suppressed

C2

to prevent something from being seen or expressed or from operating

Question 7

Everyone was living off tens of thousand of years of accumulated groundwater, like a __ heir squandering his wealth

Answer 7

spendthrift

người tiêu xài hoang phí

Question 8

miserly

Answer 8

hà tiện

Question 9

penny-pincher

Answer 9

người tiêu tiền bủn xỉn

Question 10

stingy

Answer 10

bủn xỉn

Question 11

There is no need to get so __ abt being turned down. There are other advertising agencies out there, you know

Answer 11

despondent

buồn bã, thiếu hy vọng

Question 12

destitute

Answer 12

túng thiếu

Question 13

The boss had an old axe to __ with Benson, which may be why he fired him

Answer 13

grind

to have a strong personal opinion about something that you want people to accept and that is the reason why you do something

Question 14

Roads were __ as police searched for the escaped prisoner

Answer 14

sealed off

ngăn chặn không cho ai vào

Question 15

The only thing they felt he was capable of was __ film reviews

Answer 15

turning out

sản xuất số lượng lớn

Question 16

Your deposit will be returned to you at the end of the __ (tenant)

Answer 16

tenancy

thời gian thuê nhà

Question 17

He is a perfectionist and has an acute fear of __(MEDIOCRE)