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Question 1

shop-window mannequin

Answer 1

a life-sized doll used to display clothes in shop windows

Question 2

spindle

Answer 2

a thin, wooden rod around which something turns

Question 3

extended metaphor

Answer 3

long comparison

Question 4

objectification

Answer 4

treating people like objects

Question 5

emotional incontinence

Answer 5

inability to control one’s emotions

Question 6

gesture

Answer 6

movement of one’s body to express a feeling

Question 7

scant

Answer 7

mere, barely

Question 8

beheaded

Answer 8

had their heads cut off

Question 9

a smoking ban

Answer 9

a law that does not allow smoking

Question 10

lighting up

Answer 10

lighting / smoking a cigarette

Question 11

to smoke like a chimney

Answer 11

to smoke a lot

Question 12

to stub out

Answer 12

to put a cigarette out (by pushing the remaining part of
the cigarette on to a hard surface like an ash tray)

Question 13

addicted

Answer 13

unable to stop doing something even though you want
to

Question 14

put that in your pipe and

Answer 14

to accept what you are told, even if you don’t like it
smoke it

Question 15

cravings

Answer 15

strong feelings for doing something (eg: smoking)

Question 16

to extinguish

Answer 16

to put out

Question 17

to go up in smoke

Answer 17

to be a waste of time