Ho-Re

Question 1

insight

Answer 1

N: discernment; the capacity to gain an accurate and deep intuitive understanding of a person or thing.

“this paper is alive with sympathetic insight into Shakespeare”

Question 2

puny

Answer 2

A: small/small & weak

the army was reduced to a puny 100 thousand men

skeletal, white-faced, puny children

Question 3

rue

Answer 3

N/V: bitterly regret sth

he will rue the day he rejected that offer.

tears of pittying rue

Question 4

integrity

Answer 4

N: the quality of being honest and with high moral standards
2. as a whole, not divided

he is known to be a man of integrity
2. upholding territorial integrity and national sovereignty

Question 5

parody

Answer 5

N/V
: satire; an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect.
2. produce a humorously exaggerated imitation of (a writer, artist, or genre).

“the movie is a parody of the horror genre”
2. “his specialty was parodying schoolgirl fiction”

Question 6

prototype

Answer 6

V/N: a first, typical or preliminary model of something, especially a machine

“the firm is testing a prototype of the weapon”

Question 7

tenacious

Answer 7

A: firm, tight, clinging

2. resolute, persistent, persevering
3. (of memory) retentive, photographic, good
4. sticky

a tenacious grip

2. he is the most tenacious politician i have seen
3. he had a tenacious memory
4. she tried hard to free herself from the tenacious mud

Question 8

savor

Answer 8

V: 1. taste, appreciate
2. (savor of)suggest sth bad

i wanted to savor every moment
2. they savored of superstition and popery

N: a characteristic, taste, flavour, or smell, especially a pleasant one.
2. a bad suggestion
the subtle savor of wood smoke

Question 9

rendezvous

Answer 9

N: a meeting at an agreed time and place, typically between two people.
2. a place used for a rendezvous.

“Edward turned up late for their rendezvous”
2. “you’d be welcome to use this place as a rendezvous”

V: meet at an agreed time and place.

“I rendezvoused with Bea as planned”

Question 10

replenish

Answer 10

V: fill sth up again
2. restore

he replenished Garn’s glass with water

Question 11

rustic

Answer 11

A: relating to the countryside; rural.
2. homely, unsophisocated; made in a plain and simple fashion.

2. “rustic pottery”

Question 12

ambivalent

Answer 12

A: having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone.

“some loved her, some hated her, few were ambivalent about her”