Week 5

Question 1

bewilderd

Answer 1

confused and uncertain

Question 2

coercive

Answer 2

using force to persuade people to do things that they are unwilling to do

Question 3

complacent

Answer 3

feeling so satisfied with your own abilities or situation that you feel you do not need to try any harder

Question 4

constitute

Answer 4

to be or be considered as something

Question 5

constrain

Answer 5

to control and limit something

Question 6

constricting

Answer 6

to limit an action or behaviour

Question 7

criterion

Answer 7

a standard by which you judge, decide about, or deal with something

Question 8

crude

Answer 8

simple and not skilfully done or made

Question 9

derives (something from something else)

Answer 9

to get something from something else

Question 10

dismal

Answer 10

sad and without hope

Question 11

dismayed

Answer 11

feeling unhappy and disappointed

Question 12

disparate

Answer 12

different in every way

Question 13

dispelling

Answer 13

to remove fears, doubts, and false ideas, usually by proving them wrong or unnecessary

Question 14

elusive

Answer 14

difficult to describe, find, achieve, or remember

Question 15

exasperated

Answer 15

annoyed, especially because you can do nothing to solve a problem

Question 16

foreclose

Answer 16

to prevent something from being considered as a possibility in the future

Question 17

proclaims

Answer 17

to announce something publicly or officially, especially something positive

Question 18

resonance

Answer 18

a feeling, thought, memory, etc. that a piece of writing or music makes you have, or the quality in a piece of writing, etc. that makes this happen

Question 19

transparency

Answer 19

the quality of being done in an open way without secrets

Question 20

utterly

Answer 20

completely or extremely