CAM 9 TEST 2 READING

Question 1

mental/visual/cognitive/hearing etc
impairment

Answer 1

a condition in which a part of
a person’s mind or body is damaged or
does not work well.

Question 2

auditory

Answer 2

connected with hearing

Question 3

preliminary

Answer 3

initial

Question 4

acoustics

Answer 4

the shape and size of a room,
which affect the way sound is heard in it.

Question 5

exacerbate

Answer 5

aggregate, worsen

Question 6

reverberation

Answer 6

echo

Question 7

disorder

Answer 7

a mental or physical illness
which prevents part of your body from
working properly.

Question 8

spectrum

Answer 8

range, band, scale

Question 9

autism

Answer 9

a mental disorder (=problem) that
makes people unable to communicate
properly, or to form relationships.

Question 10

neurological

Answer 10

the scientific study of the
nervous system and its diseases

Question 11

discrepancy in/ between

Answer 11

difference,
inconsistency, divergence

Question 12

characterise

Answer 12

describe, portray, illustrate,
depict.

Question 13

interlink

Answer 13

to connect or be connected with
something else.

Question 14

sensory

Answer 14

relating to or using your senses
of sight, hearing, smell, taste, or touch.

Question 15

stimulus (plural stimuli)

Answer 15

something that
makes someone or something move or
react.

Question 16

distressing

Answer 16

stressful = upset, painful

Question 17

quantify

Answer 17

measure, calculate, count.

Question 18

intrusive

Answer 18

disturbing, unpleasant, upset.

Question 19

adversely

Answer 19

harmfully, badly, negatively.

Question 20

be indicative of something

Answer 20

to be a clear
sign that a particular situation exists or that
something is likely to be true.

Question 21

persistence

Answer 21

tenacity, diligence, insistence

Question 22

inhibition

Answer 22

inhibition= a feeling of shyness or
embarrassment that stops you doing or saying
what you really want

Question 23

screen something out/ screen out
something

Answer 23

filter out= to remove people or
things that are not acceptable or not suitable.

Question 24

background

Answer 24

environment, surroundings,
setting.

Question 25

set against

Answer 25

to make someone start to fight or quarrel with another person, especially a person who they had friendly relations with before

Question 26

penetrate

Answer 26

go through, enter, invade.

Question 27

probable

Answer 27

likely

Question 28

embark on/upon something

Answer 28

take up st

Question 29

wide-ranging

Answer 29

widespread

Question 30

formulate

Answer 30

invent, create, make, plan

Question 31

literature on something

Answer 31

all the books, articles etc on a particular subject.

Question 32

to date

Answer 32

up to now

Question 33

imperative

Answer 33

urgent, very important, crucial, vital

Question 34

promulgate

Answer 34

to spread an idea or belief to as many people as possible

Question 35

promulgate

Answer 35

to spread an idea or belief to as many people as possible.

Question 36

passage`

Answer 36

movement, motion, travel, crossing

Question 37

transit

Answer 37

the process of moving goods or people from one place to another

Question 38

treat sb to sth

Answer 38

entertain sb with sth special

Question 39

it is alleged(that)

Answer 39

to say that something is true or that someone has done something wrong, although it has not been proved

Question 40

schoolmistress

Answer 40

a female teacher, especially in a private school

Question 41

draw somebody to something

Answer 41

attract, appeal, lure, entice.

Question 42

the four corners of the earth/world/globe

Answer 42

places or countries that are very far away from each other.

Question 43

put down to

Answer 43

to think that something is caused by something else

Question 44

polymath

Answer 44

someone who has a lot of knowledge about many different subjects.

Question 45

innermost

Answer 45

furthest inside or nearest to the centre.

Question 46

desolate

Answer 46

isolated, uninhabited, wild.

Question 47

latitude

Answer 47

the distance north or south of the equator (=the imaginary line around the middle of the world), measured in degrees.

Question 48

disc

Answer 48

a round flat shape or object

Question 49

parallax

Answer 49

the effect by which the position or direction of an object appears to change when the object is seen from different positions

Question 50

scale

Answer 50

size, range

Question 51

fall into place

Answer 51

make sense, become clear, take shape.

Question 52

work out

Answer 52

to calculate an answer, amount, price

Question 53

pin sb/sth down

Answer 53

to understand something clearly or be able to describe it exactly.

Question 54

set out on a journey/drive/voyage

Answer 54

to start a journey, especially a long journey

Question 55

diverse

Answer 55

different, varied, assorted.

Question 56

thwart

Answer 56

pevent, impede, ruin, frustrate

Question 57

besiege

Answer 57

to surround a city or castle with military force until the people inside let you take control.

Question 58

flee

Answer 58

run away, escape, run off.

Question 59

pitch and roll

Answer 59

an up and down movement of a ship or an aircraft

Question 60

rule smt/sb out

Answer 60

preclude, prohibit, prevent.

Question 61

undaunted

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undeterred= not afraid of continuing to try to do something in spite of difficulties or danger.

Question 62

the equator

Answer 62

an imaginary line drawn around the middle of the earth that is exactly the same distance from the north pole and the south pole

Question 63

set off

Answer 63

to start to go somewhere

Question 64

ironically

Answer 64

used when talking about a situation in which the opposite of what you expected happens or is true

Question 65

cloud

Answer 65

to make sth less pleasant or enjoyable

Question 66

dispiriting

Answer 66

disappointing, upsetting, hopeless

Question 67

instrument

Answer 67

tool, gadget

Question 68

dog

Answer 68

trouble, bother, hassle

Question 69

black drop effect

Answer 69

an optical phenomenon visible during a transit of venus and, to a lesser extent, a transit of mercury.

Question 70

smeared

Answer 70

dirty, muddy, messy

Question 71

diffract

Answer 71

deflection, spreading, diversion -> diffraction

Question 72

exhibit

Answer 72

show, display, present

Question 73

halo of

Answer 73

a circle of light or something bright.

Question 74

refract

Answer 74

if glass or water refracts light, the light changes direction when it passes through the glass or water.

Question 75

supersede

Answer 75

replace= if a new idea, product, or method supersedes another one, it becomes used instead because it is more modern or effective.

Question 76

cosmic

Answer 76

vast, huge, immense

Question 77

spectacle

Answer 77

a very impressive show or scene.

Question 78

pave the way for

Answer 78

to make a later event or development possible by producing the right conditions.

Question 79

trace sth (back) to something

Answer 79

to find the origins of when something began or where it came from.

Question 80

fire

Answer 80

to generate an electrical impulse

Question 81

pattern

Answer 81

a regularly repeated arrangement of sounds or words

Question 82

iconoclastic

Answer 82

iconoclastic ideas, opinions, writings etc attack established beliefs and customs.

Question 83

iconoclast

Answer 83

someone who attacks established ideas and customs

Question 84

circuit

Answer 84

a closed system of wires or pipes through which electricity or liquid can flow

Question 85

a matter of

Answer 85

only, just.

Question 86

be born (out) of

Answer 86

existing as a result of a particular situation

Question 87

constraint

Answer 87

limitation, restriction, restraint.

Question 88

march to (the beat of) a different drummer

Answer 88

to behave or do things in a manner that does not conform to the standard, prevalent, or popular societal norm.

Question 89

impede

Answer 89

hinder, prevent, inhibit, block.

Question 90

rumbling

Answer 90

a series of long low sounds transmit= communicate, transfer, convey.

Question 91

fall into a trap/pitfall

Answer 91

to make a mistake that many people make

Question 92

work around sb/sth

Answer 92

to arrange or organize something so that you avoid problems that may stop you from doing something

Question 93

perceptual

Answer 93

relating to the ability to become aware of something (to perceive = verb)

Question 94

plague

Answer 94

trouble, dog, torture.

Question 95

hardwired

Answer 95

if an attitude, way of behaving etc is hard-wired, it is a natural part of a person’s character that they are born with and cannot change.

Question 96

curse

Answer 96

trouble, plague, burden.

Question 97

conjecture

Answer 97

guess, hypothesis, assumption, estimation.

Question 98

bombard sb with sth

Answer 98

to do something too often or too much, for example criticizing or questioning someone, or giving too much information.

Question 99

embrace

Answer 99

accept, welcome

Question 100

impediment

Answer 100

barrier, block, hindrance, obstacle.

Question 101

stop/halt (dead) in your tracks

Answer 101

to suddenly stop, especially because something has frightened or surprised you

Question 102

phobia

Answer 102

a strong unreasonable fear of something

Question 103

afflict

Answer 103

trouble, bother, upset, distress

Question 104

come in

Answer 104

to become fashionable or popular

Question 105

intertwine with

Answer 105

connect, link

Question 106

alienation

Answer 106

the feeling of not being part of society or a group