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Question 1

Stubborn

Answer 1

Intransigent (maintain and intransigent stance/position)

Question 2

Scare

Answer 2

petrify, intimidate

Question 3

Small bit/part of sth e.g conversation, news, baseball match

Answer 3

Snippets of

Question 4

Strange e.g idea, smell, feeling (Taylor Swift)

Answer 4

Peculiar

Question 5

Serinity (piece in the midts of sth)
“I admire my mothers serenity in the midst of such a chaos”

Answer 5

Tranquility(find, feeling of)
(when one is in a place where there is nothing to disturb him)
“I love the tranquility of our forest,there is nothing to disturb me when I’m running”

Question 6

Solve (text mainly)

Answer 6

Decipher

Question 7

-S-mall chance

Answer 7

slim chance

Question 8

Severe (law, measure, regulations)
(bi-lincsel, nincsen)

Answer 8

Stringent(sztrindzsönt)
“There ought to be more stringent controls on the use of drugs in Hungary”

Question 9

Significant improvement

Answer 9

Marked improvement
“My reading has shown a marked improvement this year”

Question 10

(to) shape (meg)old

Answer 10

to mould something
e.g.
-The Statistics will mould the policy.
-I tend to mould people into doing something I want them to do.

Question 11

Shorten something

Answer 11

Abridge something
e.g. The book is abridged in order to let children understand the whole story and don’t see reading it as a tedious task.

Question 12

Same

Answer 12

self-same(before nouns)
e.g. Csabi’s father suffered from the selfsame disease as his ancestors(enszesztöz)

Question 13

Something, showing great skills

Answer 13

e.g. Polished performer

Question 14

Shape (e.g. a policy)

Answer 14

Mould

Question 15

Who start one’s interest in ..

Answer 15

Who got one interested

Question 16

Someone doesn’t mind something

Answer 16

It makes no difference to him

Question 17

It should have started

Answer 17

It was due to start/begin
e.g. The concert was due to start about 2 hours ago.

Question 18

Send

Answer 18

Consign
e.g. The lego tree was consigned to András by air freight (légi úton való szállítás)
(-) I refused to be consigned to poverty so I made my own enterprise instead of working for a huge company for low wages.
-The notion of love was consigned into oblivion by 2O8O

Question 19

Stop something from burning

Answer 19

extinguish
e.g. The fire in the skillet was quickly extinguished by slamming the lid on.

Question 20

Strong (feeling, experience,

Answer 20

Profound

Question 21

Stop

Answer 21

Stall
e.g. If a car stalls it stops
-also:conversation, negotiation

Question 22

satisfaction(stems from achieving something

Acquiring the C1 one level will not give me any tremendous sense of satisfaction, but I have to be aware of it and act accordingly maintaining this level of english.

Answer 22

contentment(noun form of content)
e.g. Find contentment
despite not yet achieving my main goal, I try to live a life of contentment

Question 23

Sad

Answer 23

Poignant
e.g. Seeing the picture of my dog evokes poignant emotions.
It is especially poignant to see our flat to be

Question 24

satisfy

Answer 24

court
Courting listeners who don’t like your music for first sight is hard, but far not impossible
2courting approval -puts a dangerous amount of power in the hands of the audience