Nouns

Question 1

candour

with candor, candor in, in all candor

Answer 1

the quality of being honest and telling the truth, especially about a difficult or embarrassing subject

honesty, straightforvardness, candidness, frankness, sincerity,

Perfect candour can do more for us than a dark disguise.
Openness and candour are rare qualities in a statesman.

Question 2

a plethora of books, regulations, clothes, excuses, agencies, words, att

plethora

a plethora of smth.

ant.: deficiency, insufficiency, inadequacy, scarcity, poverty

Answer 2

a very large amount of something, especially a larger amount than you need, want, or can deal with;
an ample amount or number

profusion, excess, superfluity, abundance, plentitude

If you have 15 different people who want to take you on a date, you have a plethora of romantic possibilities.
There’s a plethora of books about the royal family.
There is a plethora of options to choose from when deciding on a vacation destination.

Question 3

blatant, pure, utter, sheer, religious, moral, such, political

hypocrisy

someone’s hypocricy, hypocricy of …

ant.: sincerity, genuineness, honesty, frankness, truthfulness, openness, candor, directness, forthrightness

Answer 3

is when someone claims to have certain beliefs, values or principles but their actions contradict those claims. It involves pretending to be something that one is not in order to deceive others into believing they are genuine.
falseness

deception, insincerity, deceit, pretens(c)e, dishonesty, duplicity

It would be sheer hypocrisy to pray for success, since I’ve never believed in God.
the hypocrisy of people who claim to care about the environment but ride around in gas-guzzlers

Question 4

avarice

one’s avarice

ant.: generosity, altruism

Answer 4

an extremely strong wish to get or keep welth (money or possessions)

greed, cupidity

The corporate world is plagued by avarice and a thirst for power.
After all, the Church taught that avarice was one of the Seven Deadly Sins.

Question 5

serendipity

ant.: misfortune, calamity, contingency

Answer 5

Serendipity means finding or discovering something valuable or pleasant by chance, when you were not expecting or actively searching for it. It refers to the happy accident of stumbling upon something wonderful unexpectedly.

good luck, fortune,

Lottery winning ia mor a matter of serendipity than design.
The proposals also rely on the serendipity of nothing going wrong.