Session 25. Vocab

Question 1

Broker

Answer 1

A person who buys or sells goods on behalf of others (n)

To negotiate an agreement (v)

Question 2

Partial

Answer 2

Incomplete

Question 3

Participle

Answer 3

A form of a verb that is used as an adjective or nous (e.g. “working person” - here, “working” is a participle as it derives from the verb “to work”)

Question 4

Discard

Answer 4

To get rid of

Question 5

Dismal

Answer 5

Gloomy / awful

Question 6

Scuffle

Answer 6

A short struggle or fight

Question 7

Hilt

Answer 7

The handle of a weapon or tool

Question 8

Jilt

Answer 8

To suddenly reject or abandon

Question 9

Wilt

Answer 9

To droop (usually describing a plant that becomes limp through loss of water)

Question 10

Silt

Answer 10

Fine sand or clay that is carried by running water (such as a river) and deposited somewhere

Question 11

Bemusing

Answer 11

Confusing

Question 12

Disarming

Answer 12

Having the effect of removing suspicion or hostility (e.g. a disarming smile)

Question 13

Subside

Answer 13

To become less intense or severe

Question 14

Brink

Answer 14

Edge (n) - usually for an edge/border before a steep sloe, like the brink of a cliff

Question 15

Resolve

Answer 15

To settle a problem or find a solution

Question 16

Tattle

Answer 16

Gossip (verb or noun)

Question 17

Brittle

Answer 17

Fragile

Question 18

Intern

Answer 18

A student or trainee (who usually works without pay for their own experience)

Question 19

Intervene

Answer 19

To take part in something so as to prevent or alter a result or course of events

Question 20

Studious

Answer 20

Spending a lot of time studying or reading (adj)

Question 21

Scoff

Answer 21

TO speak about someone/something in a mocking or scornful way

Question 22

Rebuff

Answer 22

To reject something/someone abruptly or in an unkind way

Question 23

Tolerant

Answer 23

Showing willingness to accept or put up with other people’s opinions or behaviours

Question 24

Regress

Answer 24

To go backwards to a less developed stage of a situation

Question 25

Tenuous

Answer 25

Very weak (e.g. a tenuous link = a weak and unconvincing connection between two things)

Question 26

Sumptuous

Answer 26

Splendid and expensive-looking

Question 27

Arduous

Answer 27

Involving a lot of difficult effort (e.g. an arduous task)

Question 28

Vacuous

Answer 28

Showing a lack of thought or intelligence (e.g. used to describe a person)

Question 29

Pursuit

Answer 29

An activity/hobby

The action of chasing something/someone

Question 30

Adolescent

Answer 30

A young person in the process of developing from a child to an adult