Week 5

Question 1

rampant

Answer 1

getting worse quickly and in an uncontrolled way

Question 2

inane

Answer 2

extremely silly or with no real meaning or importance

Question 3

ethics

Answer 3

code of principles

Question 4

to concur

Answer 4

to agree or have the same opinion

Question 5

clandestine

Answer 5

planned or done in secret. especially describing sth that is not officially allowed

Question 6

flagrant

Answer 6

(of a bad action, situation, person, etc.) shocking because of being so obvious

Question 7

to admonish

Answer 7

to warn, reprove

Question 8

duress

Answer 8

compulsion, force

Question 9

culprit

Answer 9

guilty person

Question 10

inexorable

Answer 10

continuing without any possibility of being stopped

Question 11

egregious

Answer 11

remarkably bad

Question 12

distraught

Answer 12

extremely worried, nervous, or upset

Question 13

duplicity

Answer 13

dishonest talk or behaviour, especially by saying different things to two people

Question 14

acrimonious

Answer 14

full of anger, arguments, and bad feeling

Question 15

paucity

Answer 15

the fact that there is too little of something

Question 16

to elicit

Answer 16

to get or produce something, especially information or a reaction

Question 17

pernicious

Answer 17

having a very harmful effect or influence

Question 18

to tolerate

Answer 18

to accept behaviour and beliefs that are different from your own, although you might not agree with or approve of them

Question 19

to construe

Answer 19

to understand the meaning, especially of other people’s actions and statements, in a particular way

Question 20

impunity

Answer 20

freedom from punishment or from the unpleasant results of something that has been done

Question 21

stock-in-trade

Answer 21

typical characteristics or behaviors of someone or something

Question 22

to take down a peg

Answer 22

to show someone that they are not as important as they thought

Question 23

to pass the buck

Answer 23

to blame someone or make them responsible for a problem that you should deal with

Question 24

to lionize a person

Answer 24

to make someone famous or to treat someone as if they were famous