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Question 1

CHAUVINISTIC

The way the film is constructed, it feels rather chauvinistic

Answer 1

displaying excessive or prejudiced support for one’s own cause or group, in particular showing male prejudice against women

Question 2

genre
He made a massive contribution to the horror genre

Answer 2

a category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter.

Question 3

ICONOCLASTIC
His plays were fairly iconoclastic in their day.

Answer 3

characterized by attack on cherished beliefs or institutions.

Question 4

PAGINATION
The pair’s clashes over clothes and pagination became highlights of the documentary

Answer 4

the sequence of numbers assigned to pages in a book or periodical.

Question 5

DICTION
clear diction is vital for a public speaker

Answer 5

the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing

Question 6

SIMILE
He failed to find a suitable simile, and his attempt to bluster petered out.

Answer 6

a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid

Question 7

IMMUTABLE
Are we dealing with something which is an inborn, immutable trait like, say, eye color?

Answer 7

unchanging over time or unable to be changed

Question 8

AMELIORATE
the reform did much to ameliorate living standards

Answer 8

make something bad or unsatisfactory better

Question 9

ABSTRACT
abstract concepts such as love or beauty

Answer 9

existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical or concrete existence.

Question 10

PROTAGONIST
in this colonial struggle, the main protagonists were Great Britain and France

Answer 10

the main figure or one of the most prominent figures in a real situation

Question 11

ANTAGONIST
he turned to confront his antagonist

Answer 11

a person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something; an adversary

Question 12

INEXTRICABLE
the past and the present are inextricable

Answer 12

impossible to disentangle or separate

Question 13

METAPHOR
her poetry depends on suggestion and metaphor

Answer 13

a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.

Question 14

NAIVE
the rather naive young man had been totally misled

Answer 14

a person or action showing a lack of experience wisdom or judgment.