Vocabulary

Question 1

Provenance

Answer 1

Origin, Source

History of ownership of valued object or work of art or literature, software supply chain

Question 2

Belly up

Answer 2

Bankrupt

A company goes belly up

Question 3

Palliative

Answer 3

Relieving pain or alleviating a problem without dealing with the underlying cause.

E.g Dont take palliative measures.

Question 4

Benevolent

Answer 4

Well meaning and kindly

E.g A benevolent smile

Question 5

Quackery

Answer 5

A person who dishonestly claims to have special knowledge or skill in some fields, typically in medicine.

E.g people believe in financial quackery.

Question 6

Obliterate

Answer 6

Destroy utterly;
Wipe out

E.g. the memory was so painful that he obliterated it from his mind.

Question 7

Quaint

Answer 7

Old fashioned; Unusual
E.g. this advice might seem quaint

Question 8

Cue

Answer 8

A signal for action
E.g. invester take cue from other investors

Question 9

Entrenched

Answer 9

Establish so firmly that change is difficult or unlikely
E.g. dealing with entrenched bureaucracy is very difficult.

Question 10

Corollary

Answer 10

Result/a direct or natural consequence
E.g corollary to Newton ‘s law is always true

Question 11

Austere

Answer 11

Strict life without any comfort or luxuries
E.g. living austere life

Question 12

Morsel

Answer 12

A little bit of something (like food, respect, shame)
E.g. there was not a morsel of shame

Question 13

Gawk

Answer 13

Stare openly and stupidly
E.g. gawking at Ferrari

Question 14

Recluse

Answer 14

A person who lives a solitary life and tends to avoid other people
E.g I am a recluse

Question 15

Dud

Answer 15

Worthless, thing that don’t work properly
E.g A dud person

Question 16

Obituaries

Answer 16

Notice for eg in a newspaper about person’s life at the time is death

Question 17

Belabor

Answer 17

Attack or insult physically or verbally
E.g there is no reason to belabor each other

Question 18

Unfathomable

Answer 18

Impossible to measure the extent of
E.g. unfathomable money

Question 19

Lousy

Answer 19

Very poor or bad
E.g success is a lousy teacher

Question 20

Doppelganger

Answer 20

Non biological look alike person
E.g risk and luck are doppelganger

Question 21

Hindsight

Answer 21

Understanding of a situation or event only after it has happened or developed.

E.g difference between being foolish and bold is visible with hindsight

Question 22

prophylactic

Answer 22

a medicine or course of action used to prevent disease.

Something which doesn’t taste good

Question 23

Devilish

Answer 23

Very extremely
E.g simple path is devilishly misleading

Question 24

Reminisce

Answer 24

Enjoyable recollection of past event
Eg. He is reminiscing on his friendship

Question 25

Incinerator

Answer 25

An apparatus for burning waste material Eg. Inflation is wealth incinerators

Question 26

Fathom

Answer 26

Understand a problem Eg. Rich people cannot fathom poor people problem

Question 27

Intriguing

Answer 27

Arousing one's curiosity or interest. E.g I find your statement intriguing

Question 28

Clobber

Answer 28

Hit someone hard E.g if we does something, I will clobber him

Question 29

Prologue

Answer 29

A separate introductory session

Question 30

Idiosyncratic

Answer 30

Peculiar or individual E.g he became one of the great idiosyncratic talents of 2000s

Question 31

Impervious

Answer 31

Not affected by something. E g he worked, apparently impervious to the heat

Question 32

Sculpt

Answer 32

Create or represent something by carving or casting E.g teach how to sculpt

Question 33

Sheepish

Answer 33

Showing embarrassment from shame or lack of self confidence E.g. sheepish smile

Question 34

Serendipity

Answer 34

The occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way E.g give serendipity a chance

Question 35

Infatuation

Answer 35

Be inspired with an intense but short lived passion or admiration for something E.g she infatuated with a handsome police chief

Question 36

Fervent

Answer 36

Eager/Having or displaying a passionate intensity. E g a fervent disciple of tax reform