Pack 5

Question 1

clearly expressed and easy to understand, or (of a person) thinking or speaking clearly

Answer 1

Lucid (adjective) / She gave a clear and lucid account of her plans for the company’s future.

Question 2

a rude phrase meaning to do something wrong or badly (phrasal verb)

Answer 2

to cock something up / Don’t cock it up

Question 3

to improve an idea, method, system, etc. by making small changes (especially by removing unwanted material)
to improve

Answer 3

to refine / Engineers spent many months refining the software.

Question 4

to stop being involved in something
OR
to ignore someone or something
(idiom)

Answer 4

turn your back on something / The country cannot afford to turn its back on tourism.

Question 5

If you describe someone as ** or **, you mean that they go and have fun, rather than working or taking care of their responsibilities (British, informal)

Answer 5

swanning around / swanning off \ She spends her time swanning around the world. The mother was widowed and had swanned off.

Question 6

a large area of land in the country that is owned by a family or an organization and is often used for growing crops or raising animals:

Answer 6

country estate / It’s a typical country estate with a large house for the owner, farm buildings, and estate workers’ houses.

Question 7

everything that a person owns when they die (law)

Answer 7

estate / She left her entire estate to her niece.

Question 8

to divide something into smaller parts

Answer 8

to carve something up / The Nazi-Soviet pact carved up the Baltic states in 1939.

Question 9

serious, sad, and without humor or entertainment

Answer 9

somber /ˈsɑːm.bɚ/ (adj) / I left them in a somber mood.

Question 10

to go back, or to make something go back, to an earlier time

Answer 10

to rewind / We can’t rewind history and try it a different way.

Question 11

to make a recording go back towards the beginning

Answer 11

to rewind / Will you rewind that scene so we can watch it again?

Question 12

to (cause to) lose balance and fall down

Answer 12

to topple /ˈtɒp.əl/ / The tree toppled and fell.

Question 13

road in the countryside

Answer 13

This narrow country lanes.

Question 14

to do or finish an unpleasant but necessary piece of work or duty so that you do not have to worry about it in the future

Answer 14

to get something over with / I’ll be glad to get these exams over with.

Question 15

to cheer someone up in a formal way

Answer 15

Sorry this has happened to you.

Question 16

to be silly or not serious

Answer 16

kid around / Stop kidding around and listen to me!

Question 17

to receive money, a house, etc. from someone after they have died

Answer 17

to inherit / All her children will inherit equally.

Question 18

to come together again or to bring a group of people together again for a meeting

Answer 18

to reconvene /ˌriː.kənˈviːn/ / The board will reconvene at 10 a.m. tomorrow.

Question 19

to fill an amount of space or time

Answer 19

take something up / This desk takes up too much room.

Question 20

to injure someone with a sharp pointed object such as a knife

Answer 20

to stab /stæb/ / She was stabbed several times in the chest.

Question 21

a secret agreement made between two or more people or groups to do something bad or illegal that will harm someone else

Answer 21

conspiracy against sb / It is my client’s opinion that there has been a conspiracy against him.