Modest Proposal

Question 1

importune

Answer 1

ask (someone) pressingly and persistently for or to do something. syn: beg.

e.g. “if he were alive now, I should importune him with my questions”

Question 2

deplorable

Answer 2

deserving strong condemnation.

e.g. “the deplorable conditions in which most prisoners are held”

Question 3

deplore

Answer 3

feel or express strong disapproval of (something).
syn: abhor; frown upon.

e.g. “we deplore this act of violence”

Question 4

grievance

Answer 4

a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation; “holding a grudge”; “settling a score”

e. g. A letter to The Times, the usual resort of an Englishman with a grievance.
e. g. He listened personally to any grievances and when justified put them right.

Question 5

plump

Answer 5

having a full rounded shape.

e. g. “the berries were plump and sweet”
e. g. breast-feed the babies until they are plump

Question 6

reckon

Answer 6

establish by counting or calculation; calculate.

e.g. “his debts were reckoned at $300,000”

Question 7

slur

Answer 7

U.S. slang: make damaging or insulting insinuations or allegations about.

e.g. “try and slur the integrity of the police to secure an acquittal”

Question 8

repine

Answer 8

feel or express discontent; fret.

e.g. “you mustn’t let yourself repine”

Question 9

thrifty

Answer 9

(of a person or their behavior) using money and other resources carefully and not wastefully.
syn: frugal, provident

e.g. Only very thrifty children manage to fill up a money-box.

Question 10

shambles

Answer 10

archaic: a butcher’s slaughterhouse
informal: a state of total disorder.

e.g. my career is in shambles

Question 11

venison

Answer 11

meat of a game animal

Question 12

scrupulous

Answer 12

(of a person or process) diligent, thorough, and extremely attentive to details.

e.g. “the research has been carried out with scrupulous attention to detail”

Question 13

apt to

Answer 13

having a tendency to do something.
syn: likely, inclined

e.g. “she was apt to confuse the past with the present”

Question 14

wanting

Answer 14

lacking in a certain required or necessary quality.

e.g. butchers will not be wanting.

Question 15

censure

Answer 15

express severe disapproval of (someone or something), typically in a formal statement.

e.g. “a judge was censured in 1983 for a variety of types of injudicious conduct”

Question 16

dainty

Answer 16

adj. delicately small and pretty.
“a dainty lace handkerchief”

adj. fastidious or difficult to please, typically concerning food.
“a dainty appetite”

n. something good to eat; a delicacy.
we can offer carcass as prime dainty

Question 17

fastidious

Answer 17

very attentive to and concerned about accuracy and detail.

e.g. “he chooses his words with fastidious care”

Question 18

gibbet

Answer 18

gallows