Greenland, Tristan de Cunha, Zanzibar

Question 1

area with no dominant vegetation cover

Answer 1

bare land

Question 2

beautiful, but in a sad way and often in a way that cannot be forgotten

Answer 2

haunting

Question 3

A ________ place is empty and not attractive, with no people or nothing pleasant in it

Answer 3

desolate

Question 4

a dead body, usually of a person

Answer 4

corpse

Question 5

someone or something that represents a quality or an idea exactly

Answer 5

embodiment

Question 6

an area of land that is permanently frozen below the surface

Answer 6

permafrost

Question 7

money given as part of the cost of something, to help or encourage it to happen

Answer 7

subsidy

Question 8

to pay part of the cost of something

Answer 8

to subsidise

Question 9

exposed to or characterized by strong winds and rain.

Answer 9

storm tossed

Question 10

to take possession of an area of land or a country, usually by force or without permission

Answer 10

to annex

Question 11

an offensive word for someone with one black parent and one white parent

Answer 11

mulatto

Question 12

a small house, usually in the countryside, with a roof that is made from straw (= dried stems of crops) or reeds

Answer 12

thatched cottage

Question 13

an agreement in an argument in which the people involved reduce their demands or change their opinion in order to agree

Answer 13

to comprise

Question 14

the state of not being known to many people

Answer 14

obscurity

Question 15

a time in the past (like yesterday)

Answer 15

yesteryear

Question 16

friendly and welcoming to guests and visitors

Answer 16

hospitable

Question 17

a very hard dark wood of a tropical tree, used especially for making furniture

Answer 17

ebony

Question 18

the hard yellowish-white substance that forms the tusks of some animals such as elephants, used especially in the past to make decorative objects

Answer 18

ivory

Question 19

to have more than you need

Answer 19

abundance of

Question 19

something having a border along the edge

Answer 19

fringed by

Question 20

developing quickly

Answer 20

burgeoning

Question 21

land that can produce a large number of good quality crops

Answer 21

fertile soil

Question 22

neither very hot nor very cold climate

Answer 22

temperate climate

Question 23

a small, dark brown dried flower of an evergreen tree

Answer 23

cloves

Question 24

roughly calculated or approximate

Answer 24

estimated at

Question 25

being or relating to a sign that something exists, is true, or is likely to happen

Answer 25

indicative of

Question 26

in a way that covers a large area or has a great range

Answer 26

extensively

Question 27

farming

Answer 27

agriculture

Question 28

to make a picture or idea appear in someone’s mind

Answer 28

conjure up