L1

Question 1

Callow

Answer 1

(Of a young person) inexperience and immature

“Earnest and callow undergraduates”

Question 2

Contrivance

Answer 2

The use of skill to create or bring about something, especially with a consequent effect of artificiality.

“The requirements of the system, by happy chance and some contrivance can be summed up in an acronym.”

Question 3

Perquisite

Answer 3

A benefit which one enjoys or is entitled to on account of one’s job or position.

“The wife of a president has all the perquisites of stardom”

Question 4

Ectotherm

Answer 4

An animal that is dependent on external sources of body heat.

Question 5

Inimical

Answer 5

Tending to obstruct or harm. Unfriendly, hostile.
“Actions inimical to our interests”
“An inimical alien power”

Question 6

Immutable

Answer 6

Unchanging over time or unable to be changed.

“An immutable fact”

Question 7

Besmirch

Answer 7

Damage someone’s reputation.
“He had besmirched the good name of his family”

Make something dirty or discoloured.
“The ground was besmirched with blood”

Question 8

Bequeath

Answer 8

Leave property to a person or other beneficiary by a will.
“He bequeathed his art collection to the town”

Pass something on or leave something to someone else.
“He ditched the unpopular policies bequeathed to him”