Day 32

Question 1

Croaky

Answer 1

If a person or their voice is croaky, their voice sounds rough because they have a sore or dry throat:
- He called into work with a croaky voice, saying he was ill.
- I’m feeling much better now but I’m still croaky.

Question 2

Jeer

Answer 2

to laugh or shout insults at someone to show you have no respect for them:
- The people at the back of the hall jeered the speaker.
- Critics jeered at his moral stance.
- “Angry because you don’t like the truth?” he jeered.

Question 3

Journeyman

Answer 3

any worker who produces good but not excellent work

Question 4

Kudos

Answer 4

the public admiration that a person receives as a result of a particular achievement or position in society:
- Being an actor has a certain amount of kudos attached to it.

Question 5

Haughty

Answer 5

unfriendly and seeming to consider yourself better than other people:
- She has a rather haughty manner.

Question 6

Warrant

Answer 6

to make a particular activity necessary:
- Obviously what she did was wrong, but I don’t think it warranted such a severe punishment.
- It’s a relatively simple task that really doesn’t warrant a great deal of time being spent on it.

Question 7

Irate

Answer 7

very angry:
- We have received some irate phone calls from customers.

Question 8

Acclaim

Answer 8

public approval and praise:
- Despite the critical acclaim, the novel did not sell well.
- Hamlet was played by Ion Caramitrou to rapturous acclaim.

Question 9

Jejune

Answer 9

very simple or childish:
- He made jejune generalizations about how all students were lazy and never did any work.

boring and not interesting :
- a jejune lecture by one of our professors

Question 10

Inept

Answer 10

not skilled or effective:
- an inept comment/remark
- He was always rather inept at sport.
- He was criticized for his inept handling of the situation.
- Dick was socially inept and uncomfortable in the presence of women.

Question 11

Zany

Answer 11

strange, surprising, or uncontrolled in a humorous way:
- a zany film
- zany clothing/ideas

Question 12

Harlequin

Answer 12

a humorous character in plays at the theatre, especially in the past, who wears brightly coloured clothes with a diamond pattern

Question 13

Wishy-washy

Answer 13

having no colour, firm ideas, principles, or noticeable qualities of any type:
- The candidate gave a few unsatisfactory wishy-washy answers.
- Watercolours are too wishy-washy for my taste.

Question 14

Serf

Answer 14

a member of a low social class in medieval times who worked on the land and had - to obey the person who owned that land

Question 15

To refrain

Answer 15

to avoid doing or stop yourself from doing something:
- We refrained from talking until we knew that it was safe.
- The sign on the wall said “Please refrain from smoking.”

Question 16

Antsy

Answer 16

very nervous, worried, or unpleasantly excited:
- It was a long drive and the children started to get antsy.
- I always get antsy about meeting my husband’s boss.

Question 17

To linger

Answer 17

to take a long time to leave or disappear:
- After the play had finished, we lingered for a while in the bar hoping to catch sight of the actors.
- The smell from the fire still lingered days later.
- It’s impossible to forget such horrific events - they linger (on) in the memory forever.

Question 18

Frantic

Answer 18

almost out of control because of extreme emotion, such as worry:
- Where on earth have you been? We’ve been frantic with worry.

Question 19

To discern

Answer 19

to see, recognize, or understand something that is not clear:
- I could just discern a figure in the darkness.
- It is difficult to discern any pattern in these figures.

Question 20

Fractured

Answer 20

If something hard, such as a bone, fractures, or is fractured, it breaks or cracks:
- She fractured her skull in the accident.
- Two of her ribs fractured when she was thrown from her horse.
- A fractured pipe at a steelworks has leaked 20 tons of oil into the Severn estuary.

Question 21

To apprehend

Answer 21

to catch and arrest someone who has not obeyed the law:
- The police have finally apprehended the killer.
to understand something

Question 22

Recognition

Answer 22

agreement that something is true or legal:
- It’s a new country, hoping for diplomatic recognition from the international community.
- [ + that ] There’s a growing recognition that this country can no longer afford to be a nuclear power.

Question 23

Grievance