Deck 'Everything' Vol.10

Question 1

apparatus (meaning)

Answer 1

the technical equipment
eg. the apparatus is in good working order.

Question 2

respite (meaning)

Answer 2

a short period of rest
eg. 24 hours respite

Question 3

threescore (meaning)

Answer 3

sixty
eg. age of thirty of threescore

Question 4

galling (meaning)

Answer 4

causing resentment
eg. it was a galling reminder

Question 5

acclimatise (meaning)

Answer 5

become accustomed to
eg. get acclimatised in time

Question 6

absolve (meaning)

Answer 6

declare free from guilt
eg. hadn’t absolved me from the sin

Question 7

cocksure (meaning)

Answer 7

confident in arrogant way
eg. he seemed so cocksure

Question 8

foist (meaning)

Answer 8

impose unwanted things on someone
eg. the ideas that the people tried to foist on me

Question 9

plank (meaning)

Answer 9

a long, thin, flat piece of timber
eg. I dropped heavily into my sleeping plank

Question 10

Ducks and drakes (한글뜻)

Answer 10

조약돌을 물에 튀기는 놀이
eg. children were playing ducks and drakes

Question 11

shunting yard (한글뜻)

Answer 11

차량 기지, Vehicle Yard

Question 12

iota (meaning)

Answer 12

extremely small amount.
eg. If I had an iota of self-knowledge

Question 13

autodidact (meaning)

Answer 13

a self-taught person
eg. the autodidact came to say good-morning to me

Question 14

whiff (meaning)

Answer 14

a smell that is only smelt faintly
eg. I got a whiff of perfume

Question 15

voluminous (meaning)

Answer 15

having much fabric (숱이 많은)
eg. a voluminous purple fabric

Question 15

indolence (meaning)

Answer 15

laziness
eg. a sort of indolence

Question 16

insipid (meaning)

Answer 16

lacking flavour, tasteless
eg. mugs of insipid coffee

Question 17

convulse (한글 뜻)

Answer 17

경련을 일으키다
eg. I convulsed with anger

Question 18

dazed steps

Answer 18

unsteady and unfocused movements of someone

Question 19

au pair basis (한글 뜻)

Answer 19

외국인 가정에서 일정한 시간 동안 아이들을 돌보아 주는 대가로 숙식과 일정량의 급여를 받는 것을 뜻

Question 20

purge (meaning)

Answer 20

rid of unwanted feeling or memory
eg. I purge myself in this way

Question 21

nebulous (meaning)

Answer 21

hazy
eg. a giant nebulous glow

Question 22

flustered (meaning)

Answer 22

agitated or confused
eg. If I ask them what they did yesterday, they don’t get ‘flustered’; they tell you all about it in a few words.

Question 23

eiderdown (meaning)

Answer 23

a quilt filled with down
eg. blue coat which looked like an eiderdown