ELA pt. 1

Question 1

comeuppance

Answer 1

Deserve punishment or fate

Question 2

inaudible

Answer 2

Unable to be heard

Question 3

dismissed

Answer 3

1- Ordered or allowed to leave; Send away
2- Discouraged from employment or office treats as unworthy of serious consideration

Question 4

transport

Answer 4

1- Take or Carry people/goods from one place to another
2- Overwhelm someone with strong emotion

Question 5

unsubscribe

Answer 5

Cancel a subscription to an electronic mailing list or online service

Question 6

predict

Answer 6

Say or estimate that a specified thing will happen in the future or will be a consequence of something

Question 7

remit

Answer 7

Send money in payment or as a gift, release from or forgive

Question 8

climax

Answer 8

Turning point before the most intense part of story

Question 9

unreliable

Answer 9

not able to be relied upon

Question 10

narrator

Answer 10

a person who narrates something, especially a character who recounts the events of a novel or narrative poem.

Question 11

curiosity

Answer 11

1- A strong desire to know or learn something
2- A strange or unusual object or fact

Question 12

sustenance

Answer 12

Food and drink regarded as a source of strength/Nourishment

Question 13

confuddled

Answer 13

In a state of extreme confusion, especially when unable to solve a frustrating problem

Question 14

fortifications

Answer 14

A defensive wall or other reinforcements built to strengthen a place against attack

Question 15

beseech

Answer 15

Ask (Someone) urgently and frequently to do something; implore

Question 16

insolent/insolence

Answer 16

Showing a rude and arrogant lack of respect

Question 17

melancholy

Answer 17

1- A feeling of intense sadness
2- Having a feeling of extreme sadness

Question 18

encounter

Answer 18

1- Unexpectedly experience or be faced with something difficult or hostile
2- Unexpected/casual meeting with someone or something

Question 19

ominous

Answer 19

Giving the impression that something bad/unpleasant is going to happen

Question 20

foreboding

Answer 20

1- Implying that something bad is going to happen
2- A fearful expression; a feeling that something bad will happen

Question 21

malice

Answer 21

The intention or desire to do evil; ill will

Question 22

sinister

Answer 22

Giving the impression that something harmful/evil is happening or will happen

Question 23

offer

Answer 23

Present something for someone to accept or reject as so desired

Question 24

empathy

Answer 24

The ability to understand and share the feelings of an other

Question 25

Idiom

Answer 25

a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words