British Ambassador Concealed Insults from Trump by Writing Messages in English

Question 1

conceal

Answer 1

to prevent something from being seen or known about:

The listening device was concealed in a pen.

Question 2

cables

Answer 2

(in the past) a message sent by electric signal

**he had tried to conceal insulting remarks from Donald Trump by writing his cables in English.

Question 3

abundance

Answer 3

the situation in which there is more than enough of something:
**“out of an abundance of caution,”

Question 4

indecipherable

Answer 4

unable to be read or understood:
Her handwriting is virtually indecipherable.
**he took further steps to make the cables indecipherable to Trump

Question 5

take over

Answer 5

to begin to have control of something:
The firm was badly in need of restructuring when she took over.

** “The British are just mad at us for taking over their airports in the eighteenth century,”