Week 1 Day 6

Question 1

walk away from (ph v)

Answer 1

to leave a difficult or bad situation instead of trying to make it better (You can’t just walk away from 15 years of marriage.)

Question 2

afterglow

Answer 2

a pleasant feeling that remains after a good experience (I still feel the warm afterglow of that afternoon.)

Question 3

entitle

Answer 3

to give sb the official right to have or do sth (entitle sb to sth: Membership entitles you to the monthly journal.)

Question 4

housing

Answer 4

the houses or conditions that people live in (If I was entitled to housing I had no knowledge of the fact.)

Question 5

eligible

Answer 5

sb who is able or allowed to do sth for example because they are the right age (Over 1 million 18-year-olds will become eligible to vote this year.)

Question 6

dole

Answer 6

the money given by the government to unemployed people (be/go on the dole) (Too many young people are still on the dole.)

Question 7

keep sth under your hat (informal)

Answer 7

to keep sth secret (Sometimes I would keep the fact that I was at university under my hat.)

Question 8

house-sit

Answer 8

to look after sb’s house when they are away (Sometime I would house-sit in properties that were to pulled down or done up and sold.)

Question 9

pull down (ph v)

Answer 9

to destroy sth or make it stop existing (My old school was pulled down.)

Question 10

done up

Answer 10

made up,painted,repainted,redecorated,decorated (Sometimes I’d house-sit in properties that were done up and sold.)

Question 11

unceremoniously

Answer 11

in a rough or sudden way, without showing any respect or politeness (He grabbed her arms and hauled her unceremoniously to her feet.) (I came home to find my few belongings dumped unceremoniously on the pavement.)

Question 12

hay

Answer 12

long grass that has been cut and dried, used as food for cattle

Question 13

loft

Answer 13

(under a roof): a room or space under the roof of a building usually used for storing things in, attic),
(on a farm): a raised area in a barn used for keeping hay or other crops in (a hayloft)

Question 14

cast iron

Answer 14

a type of iron, which is hard and breaks easily and is shaped in a mould

Question 15

macadam

Answer 15

a road surface made of a mixture of broken stones and tar or asphalt

Question 16

impregnate

Answer 16

to make a substance spread completely through something (The streets of Melbourne were macadamized, being impregnated with tar.)

Question 17

bung

Answer 17

to put sth somewhere in a quick and careless way (Can you bung these clothes in washing machine?)

Question 18

battered

Answer 18

old and in bad condition (I bunged in the least battered vegetables I could find after the market closed.)

Question 19

scrag

Answer 19

a piece of lean or bony meat especially a neck of mutton

Question 20

fowl

Answer 20

birds which are kept for their meat and eggs

Question 21

antiseptic

Answer 21

helping to prevent infection (Dozens of people survived on stew out of that pot probably because of its antiseptic action of the red wine that we used to drink with demijohn.)

Question 22

demijohn

Answer 22

a large bottle with a short narrow neck used for making wine

Question 23

abode (formal)

Answer 23

someone’s home (Whatever my abode was, it was not fixed.) (no fixed abode=no permanent home)

Question 24

rafter

Answer 24

one of the large sloping pieces of wood that form the structure of a roof (There was only a single 40-watt bulb hanging from a rafter.)

Question 25

let alone sb or sth

Answer 25

not to mention or think of someone or something; not even to take someone or something into account (Do I have a dollar? I don’t even have a dime, let alone a dollar. I didn’t invite John, let alone the rest of his family.)

Question 26

insulate

Answer 26

to cover or protect sth with a material that stops electricity, sound, heat from getting in or out

Question 27

unfit for human habitation

Answer 27

a building which is not safe or healthy for people to live in

Question 28

shed

Answer 28

a small building often made of wood used especially for storing things (I was living in a shed but I was fine.)

Question 29

turf sb out

Answer 29

to force sb leave a place or organization, to kick sb out (From the outside you would never have known that anybody lived there which is why I was not turfed out as fire risk or health hazard or a lunatic.)

Question 30

gather up

Answer 30

to pick sth up

Question 31

berserk (go berserk)

Answer 31

to become vary angry or violent (Dad went berserk when he found out what I’ve done.)

Question 32

beat sb up (ph v)

Answer 32

to hurt sb badly by hitting them (Her BF got drunk and beat her up.)

Question 33

crack

Answer 33

weakness or fault in an idea, system or organization (I proved I could survive in a crack in the consumer society.)

Question 34

beatnik

Answer 34

a group of young people in 1950s and 1960s who did not accept the values of the society and showed this by their clothes and the way they lived

Question 35

loony (informal)

Answer 35

someone who is crazy or strange

Question 36

remorse

Answer 36

a strong feeling of being sorry, regret

Question 37

self-absorbed

Answer 37

interested only in yourself and the things that affect you (Like all teenagers I was totally self-absorbed.)

Question 38

bout

Answer 38

a short period of time during which you suffer from an illness

Question 39

respiratory (formal and technical)

Answer 39

relating to breathing or your lungs