chain reaction

Question 1

jejune

Answer 1

1. devoid of significance or interest : DULL
   
   • __\_ lectures
2. JUVENILE, PUERILE
   
   • ___ reflections on life and art
3. lacking nutritive value
   
   • ___ diets

Question 2

assuage

Answer 2

1. To lessen, calm or satisfy
2. VERB. If you assuage an unpleasant feeling that someone has, you make them feel it less strongly.
   
   • The announcement appeared designed to ____ concerns at home and abroad. [VERB noun]
   • She was just trying to ____ her guilt by playing the devoted mother. [VERB noun]
3. VERB. If you assuage a need or desire for something, you satisfy it.
   
   • The meat they’d managed to procure ____ their hunger

Question 3

mollify

Answer 3

Verb.

1. to soften in feeling or temper, as a person; pacify; appease.
2. to mitigate or reduce; soften:
   
   • to ____ one’s demands.

Placate, assuage

Question 4

gruntle

Answer 4

1. to put in a good humor
   
   • were ____ with a good meal and good conversation

Placate

Question 5

lenify

Answer 5

1. to assuage, alleviate, or mitigate
   * Assuage, mollify, gruntle, placate*

Question 6

scattergood

Answer 6

NOUN

1. a person who spends wastefully or squanders money or possessions; a spendthrift
   * Spenthrift, prodigal*

Question 7

prodigal

Answer 7

adjective

• spending money or using resources freely and recklessly; wastefully extravagant
  
  • ___ habits die hard.
• having or giving something on a lavish scale
  
  • the dessert was ___ with whipped cream.

noun

• a person who spends money in a recklessly extravagant way
  
  • the government wished to clip the wings of the local authority ___.

Synonime: spendthrift

Question 8

profligate

Answer 8

adjective

1. recklessly extravagant or wasteful in the use of resources
   
   • _____ consumers of energy.
2. licentious; dissolute
   
   • he succumbed to drink and a _____ lifestyle.

noun

1. a licentious, dissolute person.

Spendthrift

Question 9

leery

Answer 9

adjective (leerier, leeriest) informal informal

1. cautious or wary due to realistic suspicions: a city leery of gang violence.
   * Taciturn*

Question 10

yielding

Answer 10

adjective

1. (of a substance or object) giving way under pressure; not hard or rigid
   
   • she dropped on to the _____ cushions.
2. (of a person) complying with the requests or desires of others
   
   • a gentle, _____ person.
3. [in combination] giving a product or generating a financial return of a specified amount
   
   • higher-_____ wheat.

Question 11

licentious

Question 12

hasty

Answer 12

adjective (hastier, hastiest)

1. done or acting with excessive speed or urgency; hurried
   
   • a ___ attempt to defuse the situation
   • ___ decisions.
2. acting with with excessive speed or insufficient consideration:
   
   • don’t be too ___ in criticizing a colleague.
3. archaic quick-tempered.

Question 13

contempt

Answer 13

noun - desprecio

1. the feeling that a person or a thing is beneath consideration, worthless, or deserving scorn
   
   • he showed his ____ for his job by doing it very badly.
2. disregard for something that should be taken into account:
   
   • this action displays an arrogant _____ for the wishes of the majority.

Question 14

timely

Answer 14

adjective

• done or occurring at a favourable or useful time; opportune
  
  • a ___ warning.
• • done or occurring sufficiently early; prompt
  
  • ___ diagnosis and subsequent early administration will be imperative

Question 15

exacting

Answer 15

adjective

• making great demands on one’s skill, attention, or other resources
  
  • the ____ standards laid down by the organic food industry

Question 16

copious

Answer 16

adjective

• abundant in supply or quantity
  
  • she took ___ notes.
• archaic profuse in speech or ideas
  
  • I had been a little too ___ in talking of my country

Question 17

profuse

Answer 17

adjective

• (especially of something offered or discharged) very plentiful; abundant
  
  • I offered my ____ apologies.
• • archaic (of a person) extravagant
  
  • they are ____ in hospitality.

Question 18

acerbic

Answer 18

adjective

• (especially of a comment or style of speaking) sharp and forthright
  
  • his acerbic ____.
• 2 archaic or technical tasting sour or bitter.

Question 19

wit

Answer 19

noun [mass noun]

• (also __-s) the capacity for inventive thought and quick understanding; keen intelligence
  
  • she does not lack perception or native ___
  • he needed all his ___s to figure out the way back.
• • [with infinitive] good sense
  
  • I had the ___ to realize that the only way out was up.
• a natural aptitude for using words and ideas in a quick and inventive way to create humour
  
  • his caustic ___ cuts through the humbug.
• • [count noun] a person showing or characterized by quick and inventive verbal humour
  
  • she is such a ___

Question 20

humbug

Answer 20

noun

• [mass noun] deceptive or false talk or behaviour
  
  • his comments are sheer ___.
• [count noun] a hypocrite
  
  • you see what a ___ I am.
• British a boiled sweet, especially one flavoured with peppermint.

Question 21

sheer

Answer 21

adjective

• [attributive] nothing other than; unmitigated (used for emphasis)
  
  • she giggled with ___ delight
  • it’s been ___ hard work.
• (especially of a cliff or wall) perpendicular or nearly so
  
  • the ___ ice walls.
• (of a fabric) very thin; diaphanous
  
  • ___ white silk chiffon

Question 22

scathing

Answer 22

adjective

• witheringly scornful; severely critical
  
  • she launched a ____ attack on the Prime Minister.

Question 23

rife

Answer 23

adjective [predicative]

• (especially of something undesirable) of common occurrence; widespread
  
  • male chauvinism was ___ in medicine.
• • (rife with) full of
  
  • the streets were ___ with rumour and fear.

adverb

• in an unchecked or widespread manner
  
  • speculation ran ___ that he was an arms dealer.

Question 24

affability

Answer 24

noun [mass noun]

• the quality of having a friendly and good-natured manner
  
  • an air of benign ____.

Question 25

stark

Answer 25

adjective

• severe or bare in appearance or outline
  
  • the ridge formed a ___ silhouette against the sky.
• unpleasantly or sharply clear
  
  • his position is in ___ contrast to that of Curran
  • the ___ reality of life for millions of young people.
• [attributive] complete; sheer
  
  • he came running back in ___ terror.
• archaic or literary stiff, rigid, or incapable of movement
  
  • a human body lying stiff and ___ by the stream.
• physically strong or powerful
  
  • the dragoons were ___ fellows.

Question 26

miserliness

Answer 26

noun [mass noun]

• excessive desire to save money; extreme meanness
  
  • the party earned a damaging reputation for ___ by cutting pensions.
• • the quality of being small or inadequate; meagreness
  
  • the relative ___ of the prizes involved.

Question 27

stinginess

Answer 27

adjective informal

• mean; ungenerous
  
  • his boss is ___ and idle.

Question 28

idle

Answer 28

adjective (idler, idlest)

• (of a person) avoiding work; lazy
  
  • ___ students.
• (of a person) not working; unemployed
  
  • 10.3 per cent of the workforce is now ___.
• (especially of a machine or factory) not active or in use
  
  • the mill has been standing ___ for eight years.
• [attributive] (of time) characterized by inaction or absence of significant activity
  
  • at no time in the day must there be an ___ moment.
• (of money) held in cash or in accounts paying no interest.
• without purpose or effect; pointless
  
  • he did not want to waste valuable time in ___ chatter.
• • (especially of a threat or boast) without foundation
  
  • I knew Ellen did not make ___ threats.

Question 29

diffidence

Answer 29

noun [mass noun] falta de seguridad en sí mismo

• modesty or shyness resulting from a lack of self-confidence
  
  • I say this with some ____

Question 30

illiberal

Answer 30

adjective mezquino, intransigente

• opposed to liberal principles; restricting freedom of thought or behaviour
  
  • __ and anti-democratic policies.
• archaic uncultured or unrefined.
• archaic not generous; mean.

Question 31

frugal

Answer 31

adjective

• sparing or economical as regards money or food
  
  • I’m a bit too ___ to splash out on designer clothes.
• • simple and plain and costing little
  
  • a ___ meal.

Question 32

thrift

Answer 32

noun [mass noun]

• the quality of using money and other resources carefully and not wastefully
  
  • the values of ____ and self-reliance.
• [count noun] US another term for savings and loan.

Question 33

coarseness

Answer 33

noun [mass noun]

• the quality of being rough or harsh
  
  • the ___ of her hair
• rudeness; vulgarity
  
  • he disliked the ___ of the men around him.

Question 34

unseemly

Answer 34

adjective

• (of behaviour or actions) not proper or appropriate
  
  • an unseemly squabble.

Question 35

quarrel

Answer 35

noun

• a heated argument or disagreement, typically about a trivial issue and between people who are usually on good term
  
  • she made the mistake of picking a ____ with John.
• ​​​Squabble: noisy ___ about somethiing trivial

Question 36

deceptive

Answer 36

adjective. engañoso

• giving an appearance or impression different from the true one; misleading
  
  • he put the question with ____ casualness.

Question 37

guile

Answer 37

noun [mass noun] astucia

• sly or cunning intelligence
  
  • he used all his ___ and guts to free himself from the muddle he was in.

Question 38

deplete

Answer 38

verb [with object]

• use up the supply or resources of
  
  • reservoirs have been ___d by years of drought
  • (as adjective ___d) : Mansfield started the game with a ___d side.
• [no object] diminish in number or quantity:
  
  • supplies are ___ing fast.

Question 39

equable

Answer 39

adjective

• not easily disturbed or angered; calm and even-tempered:
  
  • he could look sterner than his __ temperament would suggest.
• not varying or fluctuating greatly:
  
  • an __ climate

sereno, ecuánime

Question 40

pliable

Answer 40

adjective

• easily bent; flexible:
  
  • quality leather is ___ and will not crack.
• easily influenced:
  
  • ___ teenage minds.

Question 41

shrewd

Answer 41

adjective

• having or showing sharp powers of judgement; astute:
  
  • she was __ enough to guess the motive behind his gesture
  • a ___ career move