Vocabulary 2

Question 1

radically

Answer 1

completely or extremely:
The accident radically changed the course of his life.
Our approach is radically different to that of our competitors.
More examples
They propose a radically different way of measuring economic progress.
He had surgery to radically alter his appearance.
Barker introduced some radically new ideas.
Women who stop smoking radically reduce the risk of death from coronary heart disease within five years.
second meaning
in a way that supports or relates to the belief that there should be great or extreme social or political change:
We need to think more radically to solve these problems.

Question 2

lodge

Answer 2

lodge a claim, complaint, protest, etc.
to make an official complaint about something:
The US lodged a formal protest against the arrest of the foreign reporters.
Lawyers said last night that they would be lodging an appeal against the sentence.

Question 3

slosh

Answer 3

(of a liquid) to move around noisily in the bottom of a container, or to cause liquid to move around in this way by making rough movements:
I could hear you sloshing around in the bath.
We sloshed through the puddles.
She sloshed (= poured without care) some more brandy into her glass.
(of a liquid) to hit against the inside of a container, or to cause liquid to move around in this way:
[ I ] Water sloshed over the sides of the pool as the children jumped in.
[ T ] John sloshed juice on his jacket by pouring too fast.

Question 4

submerge

Answer 4

to go below or make something go below the surface of the sea or a river or lake:
The submarine submerged when enemy planes were sighted.
She was taken to hospital after being submerged in an icy river for 45 minutes.

Question 5

plastered

Answer 5

informal
extremely drunk:
They went out to the bars and got plastered.

Question 6

pathway

Answer 6

a path:
a rough pathway on the mountainside
a track that a person can walk along:
New pedestrian pathways are being built alongside the road.
a series of actions that can be taken in order to achieve something:
Working your way up through a company is a difficult pathway.
He has supported legislation that would grant most illegal immigrants a pathway to citizenship.
Ms. Smith, the foundation’s president, hopes it can help open new pathways for young black men.

Question 7

eternity

Answer 7

time that never ends or that has no limits:
They haven’t been given these rights for (all) eternity - they should justify having them just like most other people have to.
Religions gain some of their worldly power by claiming they have the key to eternity (= a state of existence outside normal life).

Question 8

doomed

Answer 8

certain to fail, die, or be destroyed:

This is a doomed city.

Question 9

overwhelming

Answer 9

difficult to fight against:
She felt an overwhelming urge/desire/need to tell someone about what had happened.
very great or very large:
She said how much she appreciated the overwhelming generosity of the public in responding to the appeal.
An overwhelming majority has voted in favour of the proposal.
very great or strong:
An overwhelming majority voted in favor of the proposal.
I felt an overwhelming sense of relief when the semester was over.

Question 10

likelihood

Answer 10

the chance that something will happen:
This latest dispute greatly increases the likelihood of a strike.
[ + that ] There is every likelihood that more jobs will be lost later this year.
There is little likelihood now that interest rates will come down further.
pravděpodobnost

Question 11

in all likelihood

Answer 11

in all likelihood
C2
almost certainly:
In all likelihood everything will go to plan.

Question 12

ligament

Answer 12

any of the strong fibres (= strips of tissue) in the body that connect bones together, limiting movements in joints (= places where two bones are connected) and supporting muscles and other tissue
vaz

Question 13

profound

Answer 13

felt or experienced very strongly or in an extreme way:
His mother’s death when he was aged six had a very profound effect on him.
The invention of the contraceptive pill brought about profound changes in the lives of women.
Those two lines of poetry express perfectly the profound sadness of loss.
My grandfather has a profound mistrust of anything new or foreign.
There was a note of profound irritation in his voice.

Question 14

intrigue

Answer 14

to interest someone a lot, especially by being strange, unusual, or mysterious:
Throughout history, people have been intrigued by the question of whether there is intelligent life elsewhere in the universe.

Question 15

deceased

Answer 15

dead:
the recently deceased Member of Parliament
a person’s death:
The house will not be yours till after your mother’s decease.

Question 16

struck

Answer 16

to refuse to continue working because of an argument with an employer about working conditions, pay levels, or job losses:
Democratization has brought workers the right to strike and join a trade union.
We’re striking for better pay and improved safety standards.
to cause a person or place to suffer severely from the effects of something very unpleasant that happens suddenly:
I have a life insurance policy that will take care of my family if disaster strikes.
The disease has struck the whole community, sometimes wiping out whole families.
They predict that a large earthquake will strike the west coast before the end of the decade.
If you strike a match, you cause it to burn by rubbing it against a hard rough surface:
She struck a match and lit another cigarette.
He bent and struck a match on the sole of his boot.

Question 17

blissful

Answer 17

extremely or completely happy:
a blissful childhood/holiday
We spent a blissful year together before things started to go wrong.