Pack 4

Question 1

Как должна была начаться Дюна

Answer 1

How dune should have started

Question 2

the violent killing of large numbers of people, especially in war

Answer 2

Carnage [ˈkɑː.nɪdʒ] / The Battle of the Somme was a scene of dreadful carnage.

Question 3

Завидую твоему отсутствию

Answer 3

Jealous of your absence

Question 4

The phrase *** is used when you have encountered the same people, events, or situations in an unexpected place or you have discovered that someone knows a person you also know.

Answer 4

A small world it is / It’s a Small World

Question 5

the quality of being good and deserving praise (formal)

Answer 5

Merit / Her ideas have merit.

Question 6

It means asking for an explanation or elaboration of something that one is told about.

Answer 6

And why is that?

Question 7

the addition of more information to or an explanation of something that you have said

Answer 7

elaboration / This point needs greater elaboration.

Question 8

If everything goes as expected? (idiom)

Answer 8

Everything as should be? / if everything is as it should be?

Question 9

Let’s start from the beginning (formal)

Answer 9

Probably best if I start from the beginning

Question 10

Something good that someone wanted very much to happen but seemed very unlikely, that does in fact happen

Answer 10

A dream come true / Winning all that money was a dream come true.

Question 11

Just inform you (formal)

Answer 11

I’m merely making you aware of situation

Question 12

Glad to work here (very formal)

Answer 12

It’s a pleasure and a privilege to be of service

Question 13

Guilty pleasure (formal)

Answer 13

It sounds so wrong but it tastes so right

Question 14

unable to produce plants or fruit OR unable to have children or young animals

Answer 14

barren (adj) / She became very depressed during the barren years when she was unable to paint.

Question 15

a group of people who have the same job or interest
OR
a social organization for male students at an American or Canadian college

Answer 15

fraternity (noun)

Question 16

to spend time thinking very carefully about a subject

Answer 16

to cogitate (/ˈkɒdʒ.ɪ.teɪt/) / ‘Let me see,’ said the manager cogitating after dinner.

Question 17

Here she began to think actively and seriously.

Answer 17

Here she began actively and seriously to cogitate.

Question 18

to start doing a job or being responsible for something that another person did or had responsibility for before

Answer 18

to take (something) over / She took over as manager two weeks ago. He took over from the previous headmaster in February.

Question 19

not clear, open for interpretations

Answer 19

Ambiguous (adjective) /æmˈbɪɡ.ju.əs/ / His reply to my question was somewhat ambiguous.

Question 20

To be not at all in the wrong; to be totally fine (slang)

Answer 20

to be golden / Don’t worry about it. You’re golden.