SNU1200

Question 0

shelve

Answer 0

stop doing or thinking about sth for some time

the committee needs to shelve the program due to a budgetary issue.

Question 1

veer

Answer 1

change a direction/course

the path veers eastward up ahead.
the economy veered sharply downwards.

Question 2

rout

Answer 2

5. defeat disastrously or decisively

He managed to rout the enemy even when outnumbered.

Question 3

arteries

Answer 3

blood vessels

Question 4

pull a muscle

Answer 4

strain a muscle
suffer the attendant pain
(attendant: concomitant, following as a result, accompanying)

A MUSCLE
COUNTABLE

Question 5

equipment

Answer 5

UNCOUNTABLE

Question 6

have difficulty moving through

Answer 6

THE difficulty OF doing sth
have DIFFICULTY (IN) doing sth
behavioural DIFFICULTIES (bad behaviour) 

BOTH COUNTABLE AND UNCOUNTABLE

Question 7

detail

Answer 7

this etching is full of fine DETAIL.
a profusion of DETAILS.
we missed several important DETAILS in the contract.

BOTH COUNTABLE AND UNCOUNTABLE

pedantic, persnickety
overparticular, fussy, ostentatious, detail-oriented

Question 8

people from THE WORLD OVER

Answer 8

he was known THE WORLD OVER.
throughout the world
from all over the world

Question 9

mileage

Answer 9

a distance travelled
fuel economy of automobiles

something economical with MILEAGE

Question 10

ecstatic

Answer 10

very happy and excited

ecstasy

Question 11

boastful

Answer 11

excessive pride
bragging
swaggering 
bumptious
puffed up
full of oneself

Question 12

move the adjournment motion

The opposite party members move that the bill be discussed in no delay.

Answer 12

propose formally in a deliberative assembly

Question 13

second (verb)

Answer 13

approve during a meeting so that discussion or votinf can begin
agree with, endorse

Question 14

unravel

Answer 14

1 fail, begin to fail
their plans UNRAVELED when she lost her job.

2 find the correct explanation for, clean up, resolve intricacy
scientists are still UNRAVELING the secreta of DNA.

Question 15

disparage

Answer 15

describe as unimportant

Question 16

consecrate

Answer 16

officially make holy, sacred

Question 17

keep to onself

Answer 17

aloof
not friendly
cool and distant
shun the company of others

Question 18

tractable

Answer 18

malleable
docile
pliable
easy to control and influence 
complaisant, biddable, meek

Question 19

fervid

Answer 19

intensely enthusiastic and passionate

Question 20

leave one cold

Answer 20

disappoint
fail to interest one
His new novel LEFT ME COLD regardless of my old readership.

leave one out in the cold: not inform about what’s happening
my friend LEFT ME OUT IN THE COLD at the party last night.

Question 21

parole (v)

Answer 21

release a prisoner on parole

as a reward before the end of a sentence

Question 22

apprehension

Answer 22

2 foreboding, suspicion, fear, misgiving

moving to a new city makes me filled with APPREHENSION

3 arrest of a criminal

1 conception
according to popular APPREHENSION

Question 23

DEFUSE
FUSE
BLEND
MINGLE

Answer 23

make less harmful, tense, serious
alleviate
DEFUSE the crisis
his joke DEFUSED the tension in the room.

melting together

mix altogether to an extent to be unable to distinguish separate constituents

without losing fundamental identities

Question 24

pull somebody through sth

Answer 24

succeed in dealing with a difficult period
help somebody do this

He’d never managed on his own; but his colleagues have PULLED him THROUGH.
it was a crisis year for the company but we have PULLED THROUGH.

pull through: become well again after fatal illness
they expected his wife to PULL THROUGH.

Question 25

gape
gleam
gaze
glance

Answer 25

look in great surprise with an open mouth

they stood GAPING AT the racoon in the kitchen.

shine in a pleasant and soft way

Question 26

falsify

forage

Answer 26

tell lies, invalidate, disaprove, misrepresent
he FALSIFIED his background to hide his humble family.

search food, raid, ravage

Question 27

in BROAD daylight

Answer 27

in the middle of the daytime

Question 28

vivacious

Answer 28

happy

lively to be attractive

Question 29

i HAD YOU FIGURED OUT a long time ago.

Answer 29

i thought i had you figured out but I didn’t.

i worked out how your mind works.

Question 30

I wasn’t HOLDING OUT MUCH HOPE

Answer 30

expect sth to happen

Question 31

STUDY the menu before making an order

Answer 31

لا
learn
choose

Question 32

I can’t MAKE OUT what it says.

Answer 32

1 discern, see with difficulty
i could barely MAKE OUT the traffic signs through the rain.

2 understand

3 write out, fill in, draw up
MADE OUT the invoices

4 (informal) represent
he MADE OUT that he was innocent. I MADE me OUT to be a liar.

5 get along in a given way
he MADE OUT well in business

Question 33

make over

Answer 33

redo
transfer the inheritance
entail

Question 34

infest

Answer 34

inhabit or overrun in number or quantities large enough to harm

live as a parasite in or on

livestock that were INFESTED with tapewarms
streets were INFESTED with drugs
he house is INFESTED with rats.

Question 35

moral (n)
creed
metaphor

Answer 35

lesson, principle
morals= rules of conduct

a formal statement of religious belief

symbol

Question 36

likewise

Answer 36

moreover

in addition

Question 37

precarious
stalwart
mutinous

Answer 37

insecure, unstable, subject to chance or unknown conditions

loyal, hardworking
STALWART ally, support, oak tree

(soldier, sailor) rebelling, insubordinate, insurgent, willful, disobedient, seditious , subversive
MUTINOUS child
MUTINOUS scheme (coup d’état)

Question 38

company

Answer 38

UNCOUNTABLE
social visitors, companions
I have COMPANY along.

Question 39

we got lost ON THE TOUR

Answer 39

not IN THE TOUR