Vocabulary (Glossary) 2

Question 1

Delectable (adj)

Answer 1

Delicious

Question 2

Mushy(adj)

Answer 2

Soft and pulpy

Question 3

Palatable (adj)

Answer 3

Tasty. Pleasant to taste
A very palatable local red wine

Question 4

Bland(adj)

Answer 4

VERY LITTLE FLAVOUR. Lacking strong features or characteristics and therefore uninteresting

Question 5

Creamy

Question 6

Fibrous

Question 7

Grainy

Answer 7

granular.
“soft cheese with a slightly grainy texture

Question 8

Insipid

Answer 8

lacking flavour; weak or tasteless.
“mugs of insipid coffee”

Question 9

Mild

Answer 9

it does not taste or smell strong, sharp, or bitter, especially when you like it because of this. This cheese has a soft, mild flavour.

Question 10

Moist

Answer 10

slightly humid or wet

Question 11

Overripe

Answer 11

passed beyond maturity or ripeness toward deca

Question 12

Pulpy

Answer 12

resembling or consisting of pulp; mushy.
“simmer gently until the fruit is very soft and pulpy”

Question 13

Sharp

Answer 13

sharp (of a taste or smell) strong and slightly bitter; (of food or drink) having a sharp taste: The cheese has a distinctively sharp taste.

Question 14

Stale

Answer 14

No longer fresh

Question 15

Tasteless

Answer 15

it has very little or no flavour.

Question 16

Watery

Answer 16

containing too much water; thin and having no taste

Question 17

Gullible

Answer 17

easily persuaded to believe something; credulous.
Eg: “an attempt to persuade a gullible public to spend their money”

Question 18

Curb

Answer 18

restrain or keep in check.
“she promised she would curb her temper”

Question 19

Ubiquitous

Answer 19

Seeming to be everywhere. Found everywhere.
Computers are becoming increasingly ubiquitous

Question 20

Plausible /implausible

Answer 20

Difficult to believe or unlikely.
Eg: the whole plot of the film is ridiculously implausible

Question 21

Uncharted

Answer 21

An uncharted photo or place is completely new and therefore has never been described before.
Eg: nuclear fusion has taken physicists into uncharted seas

Question 22

Compelling

Answer 22

If a reason, argument, etc is compelling, it makes you believe it or accept it because it is so strong. Eg: compelling evidence.

Question 23

Confounded

Answer 23

Used to express anger.
Eg: What a confounded nuisance