Lessons 21-25

Question 1

When a product isn’t longer available or produced

Answer 1

Discontinued

Question 2

• To stop being involved in something or stop someone being involved in something.
• to become separate or not connected, or to cause this to happen

Answer 2

Disengage

Question 3

• someone who is unable to read or write

Answer 3

illiterate

Question 4

• (of behaviour or actions) not following the rules or what is expected
• not regular in shape or form. Ex: an ** coastline
• not happening at regular times

Answer 4

Irregular

Question 5

• weapons, equipment or activities intended to destroy or defend against enemy aircraft.

Answer 5

Anti-aircraft

Question 6

• after a war

Answer 6

post-war

Question 7

• not of good quality

* below the usual or required standard.

Answer 7

substandard

Question 8

When large numbers of educated and very skilled people leave their country to live and work in another one where pay and conditions are better

Ex: Due to the crisis, there has been a significant ** with skilled people moving from Spain to other European countries.

Answer 8

Brain drain

Question 9

• invention or idea a renowned person has come up with

* an idea or invention which is considered to be a particular person’s creation.

Answer 9

brainchild

Question 10

For example a sudoku is a **. It’s a game or puzzle where you have to think to come up with the solution.

• a problem or puzzle, usually designed to be solved for amusement.

Answer 10

Brainteaser

Question 11

• to ask someone’s advice about a problem
• to ask someone’s advice about a subject the person knows a lot about.
  Ex:
• can I ** about how you got rid of those weeds?
• can I ** for a moment? I’m not clear what to do and I’d really like your opinion

Answer 11

pick somebody’s brains

Question 12

• think very hard to find a solution to a difficult problem.
• make a great effort to think of or remember something.

Answer 12

rack your brains

Question 13

Noun. The language used between people who do not share the same native
Ex: French was for some time the ** and many languages, including English, adopted ”loan words” much later in history

Answer 13

Lingua franca

Question 14

Noun. Ordinary people, not members of the ruling Elite

Ex: The Elite were having parties in ball rooms whereas the ** were struggling to put food on the table

Answer 14

Commoners

Question 15

Adverb. At the same time

Ex: She could do several things **.

Answer 15

Simultaneously

Question 16

Adjective. Very important strong

Ex: The Norman conquest of England had a ** impact on the English language

Answer 16

Profound

Question 17

• Adjective. Relating to a socio-economic system of relationship between peasants, who worked the land, and their lords, who owned the land.
• the relationship between the farmers/peasants who worked the land and their lords who owned the land
  Ex: So, next time you order some roast beef or pork, think about the poor Anglo-Saxon peasants tending the cows and pigs of their Norman ** lord.

Answer 17

Feudal

Question 18

Adverb. Approximately

Ex: In fact, English speakers are familiar with ** 15,000 French words, even before they start learning the language

Answer 18

Roughly

Question 19

• verb. To come from another source
  Ex:
• The word ”sheep” comes from Old English sceap whereas the meat, ”mutton” is ** from the French mouton
• To get something from something else
  Ex:
• She ** great satisfaction from playing the violin.
• I didn’t ** much benefit from school
• to get or obtain something
  Ex: the institute ** all its money from foreign investments

Answer 19

Derived

Question 20

• verb. cared for, looked after
  Ex:
• The aristocracy, who spoke French, ate the meat while the commoners, who ** the animals, spoke English
• The farmer ** for his animals

Answer 20

tended

Question 21

• noun. nobility, a class of people who hold a high status in society (dukes, earls, counts etc)
  Ex:
• William the Conqueror, as he became known, brought with him Norman French, which became the language of the **, government and the court for over three hundred years.

Answer 21

aristocracy

Question 22

• adjective. equivalent, related

Ex: The ** word for the meat “beef” comes from French boeuf

Answer 22

corresponding

Question 23

• the hundredth anniversary of a significant event or relating to a hundredth anniversary.
  Ex: the ** year of the artist’s birth

Answer 23

centenary

Question 24

• not clearly visible or attracting attention.
  Ex:
• an ** red-brick building
• she wore ** clothes.
• This type of bird is very ** because of its dull feathers.

Answer 24

inconspicuous

Question 25

• disappointed and unhappy because of discovering the truth about something or someone that you liked or respected
• disappointed in someone or something that one discovers to be less good than one had believed
  Ex: Don’t believe the hype surrounding this film, I was left totally **.

Answer 25

disillusioned

Question 26

• move or fall downwards

Ex: I was disengaging with the plot early on as it ** into farce

Answer 26

descend