Vocabulary Set 03

Question 1

Hurdle

Answer 1

n. barrier

Ex.: Finding the enough money for the project was the first hurdle.

Question 2

Mass Adoption

Answer 2

When many people have accepted something and use it, which helps its growth.
Ex.: The biggest hurdle for Bitcoin’s mass adoption is that it requires a lot of knowledge and know-how to safely.

Question 3

Know-how

Answer 3

n.informal. knowledge, practical ability, or skill to do something
Ex.: It requires a lot of know-how
Ex.: No other company had the technical know-how to deal with the disaster.

Question 4

Maneuver

Answer 4

n. activity, operation, exercise,
Ex.: political maneuvers.

v. plan, drive, guide
Ex.: They were maneuvring him into betraying his friend.

Question 5

Primary

Answer 5

n. main, fundamental, elementary
Ex.: primary school
EX.: Currency becomes the primary source of transactions.

Question 6

Dodgy

Answer 6

adj. dishonest, two-faced,

Question 7

distinct

Answer 7

duh·”stingkt”
adj. clearly noticeable that certainly exists
+ It’s a distinct possibility.

adj. clearly separate and different from something else.
+ The two concepts are quite distinct.

Question 8

odd

Answer 8

adj. strange, unusual, funny in a strange way
+ an odd person, to be odd together
adj. not often
+ She does the odd teaching job, but nothing permanent.
adj. odd numbers: 1, 3, 5, 7
+ Odd is the opposite of even.
idiom.
+ Even odds: when there is an equal chance for two possibilities.

Question 9

colossal

Answer 9

adj. extremely large
+ They were asking a colossal money for the house.
+ That was a colossal waste of time.

Question 10

moderate

Answer 10

adj. neither small nur large, medium
+ You’re moderately clever.
+ Moderately priced, moderately sized

Question 11

bust

Answer 11

v. break, split, burst
+ She busted out of prison.
+ Sorry your face got busted up.

Question 12

beatdown

Answer 12

n. a physical beating, a great defeat
+ Eventually, you’re gonna have to take the beatdown for this.
+ I’ll never forget the colossal beatdown in yesterday’s game.

Question 13

call sb off

Answer 13

idiom. to order a dog or a person to stop attacking sb/sth
+ She’ll call her brothers off.
+ I asked him to call his dog off, but he just laughed at me.

Question 14

instance

Answer 14

n. example

Question 15

lure

Answer 15

v. try to persuade someone to do something by offering them something good.
+ She lured his brother to come with her with a candy bar.
+ She lured little boy off with a candy bar.
+ He was lured into the job by the offer of a high salary.

Question 16

conquest

Answer 16

n. the act of getting control of a land by fighting.

verb form: conquer

Question 17

nobleman

Answer 17

n. a member of a higher social class.

Question 18

tramp

Answer 18

n. a long walk, a vagabond who travels around

v. to walk slowly with heavy steps

Question 19

swamp

Answer 19

n. a place that is always wet and covered with water

Question 20

tangle

Answer 20

v. to become twisted together

Question 21

fountain

Answer 21

n. a flow of liquid that goes straight up into the air

Question 22

perpetual

Answer 22

adj. eternal

+ fountain of perpetual youth

Question 23

toil

Answer 23

n. labor, struggle

v. work hard

Question 24

fable

Answer 24

n. a traditional short story that teaches a moral lesson.

+ the fable of the fox and the crow

Question 25

splendor

Answer 25

n. impressive beauty specially of a large building or place.

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