ESLPOD [126;127;128]

Question 1

a formal public event with special traditions, actions, or words

Answer 1

ceremony

Question 2

to want to do something

Answer 2

be up for

Question 3

someone who makes, repairs, or sells jewelry and other objects made of valuable metal and stones

Answer 3

jeweler

Question 4

feeling that it is useless to try to do something

Answer 4

discouraged

Question 5

to change the structure or appearance of something

Answer 5

remodel

Question 6

an offer to give a particular amount of money for something, for example at an auctionan event where things are sold to the person who offers the most money; an offer to do work or provide a service for a particular amount of money; an offer to buy the shares in a company and take control of it

Answer 6

bid

Question 7

secret and probably dishonest or illegal

Answer 7

shady

Question 8

honest

Answer 8

on the level

Question 9

to do whatever you want without being stopped or punished

Answer 9

get away with murder

Question 10

to ask someone for payment for something in writing.

Answer 10

bill for (a job)

Question 11

honest or legitimate; usually used in American English

Answer 11

on the up and up

Question 12

to hope that things will happen in the way you want them to

Answer 12

have one’s fingers crossed