"The Dual-Purpose Playbook" Vocabulary

Question 1

Dial-Down

Answer 1

To turn down the level of something

Question 2

Single-minded

Answer 2

Concentrating solely on one thing

Question 3

At the outset

Answer 3

Doing something right from the beginning

Question 4

To drift

Answer 4

Be carried slowly away from a train of thought

Question 5

To subsidize

Answer 5

To offer (governmental) for a business or project

Question 6

Rule of thumb

Answer 6

A broadly accurate guide or principle, based on practice rather than theory

Question 7

Benificiary

Answer 7

A person or entity that benefits from something is called a benificiary

Question 8

Prior to

Answer 8

Before something occurs

Question 9

To decouple

Answer 9

To remove oneself from a situation or thing

Question 10

To dismantle

Answer 10

To take something apart into smaller pieces

Question 11

Livelihood

Answer 11

A means of securing the necessities of life

Question 12

To plummet

Answer 12

Falling uncontrollably to either a literal or a figurative bottom

Question 13

Paralysis

Answer 13

A state of losing the ability to move and subsequently “freezing”

Question 14

Daunting

Answer 14

An intimidating process, that makes something seem difficult

Question 15

Contentious

Answer 15

Causing or likely to cause an argument; controversial

Question 16

To crop up

Answer 16

Appearing unexpectedly

Question 17

To take precedence

Answer 17

Being considered more important over something else

Question 18

To upend

Answer 18

To turn something upside down