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Question 1

quite a lot/bit/few

Answer 1

a fairly large number or amount

Question 2

quite

Answer 2

very, but not extremely → pretty

GRAMMAR: Word order
You say quite a before an adjective and a noun:
It took quite a long time to answer the questions.
✗Don’t say: It took a quite long time.

completely

کاملاً، به‌کلی، تماماً، سراسر، واقعاً

Question 3

Read on

Answer 3

Continue reading

Question 4

Fairly

Answer 4

منصفانه، بی‌طرفانه،
به‌طور میانه،
به‌موقع،
به‌طور روشن، خوب

1 [+adj/adverb] more than a little, but much less than very → quite
The house had a fairly large garden.
She speaks English fairly well.
The instructions seem fairly straightforward.

2 in a way that is fair, honest, and reasonable
I felt I hadn’t been treated fairly.

3 British English old-fashioned used to emphasize the degree, force etc of an action
He fairly raced past us on his bike.

Question 5

Swindler

Answer 5

کلاهبرداری
to get money from someone by deceiving them SYN cheat
swindle somebody out of something
a businessman who swindled investors out of millions of pounds

Question 6

Keep the conversation light

Answer 6

Not serious topic

Question 7

Lunch line

Answer 7

a row of people or things next to each other for lunch

Question 8

Small talk

Answer 8

Short conversation, chat

Question 9

Choir

Answer 9

کوآ
1 a group of people who sing together for other people to listen to → choral
He joined a church choir at the age of eight.

2 [usually singular] the part of a church in which a choir sits during religious ceremonies

Question 10

Pin

Answer 10

1 FOR JOINING/FASTENING
a) a short thin piece of metal with a sharp point at one end, used especially for fastening together pieces of cloth while making clothes
b) a thin piece of metal used to fasten things together, especially broken bones

2 JEWELLERY American English a piece of metal, sometimes containing jewels, that you fasten to your clothes to wear as a decoration SYN brooch British English

3 ELECTRICAL British English one of the pieces of metal that sticks out of an electric plug

4 Image of pin BOWLING one of the bottle-shaped objects that you try to knock down in a game of bowling
5 → you could hear a pin drop

6 PART OF BOMB a short piece of metal which you pull out of a hand grenade to make it explode a short time later

7 GOLF a metal stick with a flag at the top which marks the holes on a golf course

Question 11

Bin

Answer 11

English
Related topics: Cleaning
bin1 /bɪn/ ●●● S2 noun [countable]

1 B ritish English a container for putting waste in → trash can, waste paper basket
Throw it in the bin.
→ dustbin, litter bin
2 a large container for storing things, such as goods in a shop or substances in a factory

COLLOCATIONS
TYPES OF BIN
a rubbish/waste bin

a litter bin (=a bin in a public place)

a wastepaper bin (=for paper you throw away)

a pedal bin (=that you open by pressing a lever with your foot)

a wheelie bin (=a big bin on wheels kept outside a house)

a recycling bin (=for rubbish that you can recycle)

VERBS
put/throw something in the bin (also chuck something in the bin informal)
Shall I put this old bread in the bin?
BIN + NOUN
a bin bag/liner (=that you use inside a bin to keep it clean)
We need some more bin liners for the kitchen bin.
the bin men (=the people who take your rubbish away)
Which day do the bin men come?

Question 12

Pear

Answer 12

گلابی

Question 13

Bear

Answer 13

خرس

Question 14

Cap

Answer 14

1-Hat

a) a type of flat hat that has a curved part sticking out at the front, and is often worn as part of a uniform
a baseball cap
old men in flat caps
a chauffeur’s peaked cap
b) a covering that fits very closely to your head

c) a type of simple hat that fits very closely to your head, worn especially by women in the past

a protective covering that you put on the end or top of an object SYN top

3 LIMIT an upper limit that is put on the amount of money that someone can earn, spend, or borrow
a cap on local council spending
4 SPORT British English
a) if a sportsperson wins a cap or is given a cap, he or she is chosen to play for their country
He won his first England cap against Wales in 1994.
b) a sportsperson who has played for his or her country
Mason is one of two new caps in the team.
5 SMALL EXPLOSIVE a small paper container with explosive inside it, used especially in toy guns
6 SEX a contraceptive made of a round piece of rubber that a woman puts inside her vagina SYN diaphragm
7 → go cap in hand (to somebody)

Question 15

Cab

Answer 15

1 a taxi
New York’s yellow cabs
take/get a cab
I took a cab to the airport.
call (somebody) a cab (=telephone for a taxi)
Ralph tried to hail a cab (=wave to get a cab to stop for you).
2 the part of a bus, train, or truck in which the driver sits
3 a carriage pulled by horses that was used like a taxi in the past

Question 16

Pup

Answer 16

1 a young dog SYN puppy
a spaniel pup
a litter of pups (=several pups born to the same mother at the same time)
2 a young seal or otter
3 old-fashioned a young man who is rude or too confident
4 → be sold a pup/buy a pup

Question 17

Pub

Answer 17

a building in Britain where alcohol can be bought and drunk, and where meals are often served → bar

Question 18

Pig

Answer 18

1 ANIMAL a farm animal with short legs, a fat body, and a curved tail. Pigs are kept for their meat, which includes pork, bacon, and ham. SYN hog American English
He kept pigs and poultry.

2 PERSON spoken

a) someone who eats too much or eats more than their share
You greedy pig, you ate all the candy!
I made a bit of a pig of myself (=ate too much) at dinner.

b) someone who is unpleasant in some way, for example unkind or very untidy
They live like pigs in that house over the road.
You can tell him from me he’s an ignorant pig.
(male) chauvinist pig (=a man who thinks women are not equal to men)

3 POLICE taboo informal an offensive word for a police officer. Do not use this word.
4 → a pig (of a something)
5 → make a pig’s ear of something
6 → in a pig’s eye
7 → pig in a poke
8 → pigs might fly

Question 19

Peach

Answer 19

هلو

1 [countable] a round juicy fruit that has a soft yellow or red skin and a large hard seed in the centre, or the tree that this fruit grows on
2 [uncountable] a pale pinkish-orange colour
3 [singular] old-fashioned something or someone that you think is very good

Question 20

Proverb

Answer 20

ضرب المثل

a short well-known statement that gives advice or expresses something that is generally true. ‘A penny saved is a penny earned’ is an example of a proverb.