One Day in the Life Of Ivan Denisovich

Question 1

screw

Answer 1

noun: (informal) a prisoner’s derogatory word for a warder (i.e., a prison guard).

Question 2

gang

Answer 2

noun: an organized group of people doing manual work

Question 3

palm off

Answer 3

verbal phrase: to sell or dispose of something by misrepresentation or fraud.

““The gang boss was worried and was going to try to fix things, try to palm the job off on some other gang, one that was a little slower on the uptake.”

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Question 4

fatback

Answer 4

noun: fat from an upper part of a side of a pork, especially when dried and salted in strips.

“Of course you couldn’t go empty-handed. It would take a pound of fatback for the chief clerk. Or even two.”

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Question 5

Tartar

Answer 5

noun: 1) a central Asiatic person such as a Mongol or Turk, 2) a harsh, fierce, or intractable person.

Question 6

drawl

Answer 6

verb: to speak in a slow, lazy way with prolonged vowel sound.

Question 7

the can

Answer 7

noun: (informal), the prison, or the toilet

Question 8

groat

Answer 8

noun: a hulled or crushed grain, especially oats.

“hulled” - having the outer covering of a seed (i.e., hull) removed.

Question 9

millet

Answer 9

noun: a cereal grown in a warm country and regions with poor soils, bearing a large crop of small seeds which are chiefly used to make flour.

Question 10

the runs

Answer 10

noun: diarrhea

Question 11

scurvy

Answer 11

noun: a disease caused by a deficiency in vitamin C, characterized by swollen bleeding gums, and the opening of previously healed wounds.

Question 12

mess hall

Answer 12

noun: a room or building where people, especially soldiers, eat together.

Question 13

gruel

Answer 13

noun: a thin liquid food of oatmeal or other meal boiled in water or milk—a thinner version of porridge, more often drunk rather than eaten.

Question 14

mush

Answer 14

noun: 1) a soft, welt, pulpy mass; 2) thick maize porridge.

Question 15

on the sly

Answer 15

adjectival phrase: in a secretive fashion:

“The guys with tobacco were smoking on the sly.”

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Question 16

kulak /’kuːlak/

Answer 16

► noun
historical a peasant in Russia wealthy enough to own a farm and hire labour. Emerging after the emancipation of serfs in the 19th century the kulaks resisted Stalin’s forced collectivization, but millions were arrested, exiled, or killed.
Russian, literally ‘fist, tight-fisted person’, from Turkic kol ‘hand’.

Question 17

gyp3 /dʒɪp/

Answer 17

► verb
(gyps, gypping, gypped) [with obj.] cheat or swindle (someone): a young inventor gypped by greedy financiers.

► noun
an act of cheating someone; a swindle.

Question 18

giddy /’gɪdi/

Answer 18

► adjective
(giddier, giddiest )having a sensation of whirling and a tendency to fall or stagger; dizzy: Luke felt almost giddy with relief.
■ disorientating and alarming, but exciting: her giddy rise to power.
■ excitable and frivolous: Isobel’s giddy young sister-in-law.

► verb
(giddies, giddying, giddied) [with obj.] make (someone) feel excited to the point of disorientation.
my giddy aunt!
dated used to express astonishment.
play the giddy goat
dated behave in an irresponsible, silly, or playful way.
giddily adverb
giddiness noun.
Old English gidig ‘insane’, literally ‘possessed by a god’, from the base of God. Current senses date from late Middle English.

Question 19

cadge

Answer 19

► verb
[with obj.] Brit. informal ask for or obtain (something to which one is not strictly entitled): he cadged fivers off old school friends.

► noun
Falconry a padded wooden frame on which hooded hawks are carried to the field. [Origin: apparently an alteration of cage, perhaps confused with the dialect verb cadge ‘carry about’.]

Question 20

hoist /hↄɪst/

Answer 20

► noun: an apparatus for lifting or raising something.

Question 21

sidle /’sʌɪd(ə)l/

Answer 21

► verb
[no obj., with adverbial of direction] walk in a furtive, unobtrusive, or timid manner, especially sideways or obliquely: I sidled up to her.

Question 22

clout /klaʊt/

Answer 22

► noun
1. informal a heavy blow with the hand or a hard object: a clout round the ear.

► verb [with obj.]
1. (informal) hit (someone or something) hard: I clouted him round the head.

Question 23

going-over

Answer 23

► noun
[in sing.] (informal) a thorough cleaning or inspection: give the place a going-over with the Hoover.
■ a physical or verbal attack.
■ a heavy defeat: Pontypool gave them a 35–6 going-over.

Question 24

stool pigeon

Answer 24

► noun informal
1. a police informer.
2. a person acting as a decoy.
late 19th cent.: so named from the original use of a pigeon fixed to a stool as a decoy.

Question 25

frisk /frɪsk/

Answer 25

► verb

1. [with obj.] (of a police officer or other official) pass the hands over (someone) in a search for hidden weapons, drugs, or other items.
2. [no obj., with adverbial of direction] skip or leap playfully; frolic: spaniels frisked around me.

► noun

1. [in sing.] an act of frisking someone.
2. a playful skip or leap.

frisker noun.

early 16th cent. (in sense 2): from obsolete frisk ‘lively, frisky’, from Old French frisque ‘alert, lively, merry’, perhaps of Germanic origin. Sense 1, originally a slang term, dates from the late 18th cent.

Question 26

paddock /’padək/

Answer 26

► noun
a small field or enclosure where horses are kept or exercised.
■ an enclosure adjoining a racecourse or track where horses or cars are gathered and displayed before a race.
■ Austral./NZ a field or plot of land enclosed by fencing or defined by natural boundaries.

► verb
[with obj.] keep (a horse) in a paddock: horses paddocked on a hillside.

early 17th cent.: apparently a variant of dialect parrock, of unknown ultimate origin.