Piranesi

Question 1

Revere

/rɪˈvɪə(r)

Answer 1

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to have a lot of respect and admiration for someone something „I have known for many years that the Other does not ………… the House in the same way I do, but it still shocks me when he talks like this.“.

Question 2

Reluctance /rɪˈlʌktəns/

Answer 2

Unwillingness -
a feeling of being unwilling to do something or of wishing that you did not have to do it: „These were as strange as the entry for Stanley Ovenden. As I focussed on them, I experienced the same …………… to register what my eyes saw. Nevertheless, I forced my eyes to see it; I forced my mind to think it.“

Question 3

Enamoured of/with

/ɪˈnæmə(r)d/

Answer 3

1. Impressed with or enthusiastic about 2. in love with someone: „At this point she seems to have been distinctly less ……….. of Laurence Arne-Sayles than before.“

Question 4

Soliloquy /səˈlɪləkwi/

Answer 4

a speech in a play in which a character who is alone talks about their thoughts or feelings

Question 5

condescending

Answer 5

Patronising

Question 6

Obfuscates /ˈɒbfʌˌskeɪt/

Answer 6

to deliberately make something confusing or difficult to understand (zahmliť):
„It ………….. (+s) whatever it is they might be trying to say, and I sit with them and ask, one by one, But what do you want to say? and they tell me, and I say, So why don’t you write that?“

Question 7

Mulberry

Answer 7

Morušovnik; tmavofialový

Question 8

Dote

Answer 8

She dotes on us

Question 9

Deluded

Answer 9

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believing something that is not true

Question 10

Tongs

Answer 10

Kleště (kuchyňské)

Question 11

Agitated

Answer 11

Upset: „you’d hear his chair scrape back again, his feet pacing around his flat all ………+ed.

Question 12

Ostentatious

Answer 12

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