Set 10 - TC section 3 and 4

Question 1

Contemptuous (adj.)

Answer 1

We saw that the school board was downright dismissive, almost contemptuous of parents’ input.
We are more divided than ever, more contemptuous and distrustful of the other and doomed if we don’t do anything about it.
(showing that something does not deserve respect)

Question 2

Decry (v.)

Answer 2

Russia’s control has been decried by the west as illegal, though little has been done to force Russia to return it to Ukraine.
in organizations with limited resources political activity is inevitable and only fools decry it.
(show strong disapproval of something publicly.)

Question 3

Condone (v.)

Answer 3

Never ever would we condone violence or advocate for it.
the advertisement somehow sent the wrong message and it seemed like it was condoning drug use.
(excuse, be lenient with, overlook)

Question 4

boast (v.)

Answer 4

She is always boasting about how good she is at languages.
He boasts that he has already lost ten pounds because of the exercise.
(brag about something)

Question 5

Neophyte (n.)(c.)

Answer 5

Jenner, a Republican, is the latest and the one with by the most name recognition, though she is a political neophyte.
(novice , beginner)

Question 6

intricate (adj.)

Answer 6

Laser is used to carve intricate designs in the wood.

complex, convoluted

Question 7

Supposition (n.)

Answer 7

Police is acting on the supposition that she took the money.
he even goes further and suggests violence on the supposition that women like to be forced to submission.
(guess, hypotheses, something that you think is true but you can’t evidently prove it.)

Question 8

Motley (adj.)

Answer 8

He has to keep his assorted supporters together that are anything but natural allies.
a motley crew of zealots and discontents.
(various, incongruously varied in appearance and character)

Question 9

Monolithic (adj.)

Answer 9

A monolithic economy largely dependent on oil.
She’d assumed that Muslims were all one monolithic group with the same devout and unbending stock.
(large and inflexible, unbendable)

Question 10

Nepotism (n.)

Answer 10

He represents a type of a young Kosovar who is more familiar with the west and is frustrated by the systematic nepotism and corruption in his country.
(favoritism based on kinship)

Question 11

mar (v.)

Answer 11

The wedding was marred by the bride’s mother’s death a month before.
his time in the office was marred by vacillations and inconsistencies.
(be spoiled by something)

Question 12

vacillation (n.)

Answer 12

his shifting views of china is striking, yet it is unclear what the vacillations will signify.
despite his inconsistencies and vacillations, I believe that Obama will keep the U.S intervention in Syria limited.

Question 13

Futile (adj.)

Answer 13

Demonstrators condemned the summit as a futile and fruitless exercise.
(doomed to loss - pointless because it has a low chance of success.)

Question 14

Prose (n.)(UC.)

Answer 14

نثر

Question 15

Tendentious (adj.)

Answer 15

Government warned against the tendentious coverage of the events by certain media, likely to stir up hatred and violence.
(biased, marked by extensive tendency to promote your point of view.)

Question 16

discursive (adj.)

Answer 16

His style is wonderfully discursive, reflecting his wide range of interests and experiences.
At times the book threatens to dissolve into discursive mess but American culinary history and race relations are messy subjects and he deserves credit for diving headlong into them.
(tend to stray away from the main point, rambling, going off topic.)

Question 17

Blemish (n.)(v.)

Answer 17

They were little boys, freckled, dirty and dark but their faces were free of any major blemishes.
Her purity of spirit is of no doubt even though she passed through a blemished world.
(mar, defect, to spoil the beauty of something)

Question 18

Exigencies (n.)(plural)

Answer 18

I visualized a self-appointed jury of twelve, who due to the exigencies of the case had to become their own executors.
(نیاز مبرم و شدید)

Question 19

Hodgepodge / patchwork (n.)

Answer 19

Despite the collection being a hodgepodge assembled from different sets, the fans will still be satisfied to see the tons of memories of The Duke in action.
Harper Lee’s narrative in “to kill a mockingbird” is a hodgepodge with shifts between the adult and the child’s perspective based on no particular logic.
(A confused mixture)

Question 20

Fractiousness (n.)

Answer 20

The vigil concluded amid fractiousness as some protestors yelled at each other for confronting or refusing to confront the police.
(irascibility - unruliness)

Question 21

Erode (v.)

Answer 21

Trust for Americans began to erode and hopes of peace talks faded.
(deteriorate)

Question 22

Temporal (adj.)

Answer 22

yet religious leader, corrupted by a wisp of temporal power, remain cravenly on this side.
the book spans immense temporal, geographical and biographic territory.
(related to time , limited by time , mundane , worldly, as opposed to spirituality.)

Question 23

Secular (adj.)

Answer 23

Temporal - worldly

Question 24

scaffolding (n.)(UC.)

Answer 24

Soon the fragile administrative and curricular scaffolding and begin to buckle.
the building was heavily damaged and there were workers working atop the scaffolding at the ceiling.

Question 25

buckle (v.)

Answer 25

Bangladesh’s already strained health care system is buckling under the ferocity of the country’s third and by far the deadliest wave of the Coronavirus.
(bend out of shape under force)

Question 26

Chivalrous (adj.)

Answer 26

Traditional entertainment targeting young girls usually imparts the message that a chivalrous knight should be the ultimate dream of every girl.

Question 27

Boorish (adj.)

Answer 27

Jenny claims that she likes chivalrous men who are patient and supportive, yet her record is full of boorish boys with untucked shirts and alcohol problem.
(ill-mannered with a sloppy appearance)

Question 28

forbear (v.)

Answer 28

He was nothing if not impetuous, so he forbore for the present to declare his passion.
(refrain from something because you think is wiser to do so.)

Question 29

Glean (v.)

Answer 29

Police is acting on clues gleaned from security camera footage.
They aim to glean memories for a book that can be taught in schools - provide a three dimensional portray of how life is in the village.

Question 30

Adversarial (adj.) / antagonistic (adj.)

Answer 30

The adversarial nature of two-party politics.

hostile and characterized by two opposing sides that tend to argue

Question 31

Untenable (adj.)

Answer 31

The sanctions have put many companies in a financially untenable situation.
a father abuse of his children is legally and morally untenable.
he dropped the case upon hearing the egregious details of the elaborate scheme and called the case untenable.
(غیرقابل دفاع- difficult to overcome)

Question 32

Subversive (adj.)

Answer 32

The subversive hope of a military intervention by the U.S vanished into thin air amid the Taliban’s rise to the power in Afghanistan.
it seems like the regime considers any pro-democracy movements subversive, hostile and conspiratorial.
(secretly aimed at destroying a government.)

Question 33

trifling (adj.)

Answer 33

rainfall this trifling is not enough to solve the electricity shortage problem.
the first time we fought it was over something so trifling that it seems absurd in retrospect.
(trivial - not important)

Question 34

Precarious (adj.)

Answer 34

The drop in support comes at a precarious time for the first-year president, when his administration is already under fire for the poor handling of American forces pull out from Afghanistan.
the precarious condition of living in poverty-stricken areas.
(likely to fall - a situation which is getting quickly worse)

Question 35

Momentous (adj.)

Answer 35

Daddy did not try to lie to me and tell me that of course mom will be there and she wouldn’t miss such a momentous event in her only daughter’s life.
(important because it will heavily affect the future. like graduation, wedding, birth a child etc.)

Question 36

Contrived (adj.)

Answer 36

The in-laws came up with a contrived plan to take the family to Italy by making it look like they did not have a say in the decision.
it seemed like a contrived plan to circumvent their official duties with no contrition.

Question 37

Devolve (v.)

Answer 37

The government has devolved the responsibility of welfare to the states.
his breathing devolved into trains of coughs.
the evacuation devolved to an apocalyptic exodus as Kabul collapsed on Aug. 15.

Question 38

Dissension (n.)

Answer 38

The move sowed dissension within the party ranks.
the labor party is torn with internal dissensions.
(disagreement)