Miscellaneous Vocabulary (C) MCQs

A person, usually a man, who comes to the aid of another, usually a woman, in a gallant and courteous manner.

On the menu, with each dish priced.

Fashionable.

To wait upon someone in an overly assiduous or sycophantic manner.

An archetypal elderly couple.

The evil and malevolent aspect of human personality or society, often referred to in a lighthearted or comic context.

To wait upon someone in an overly assiduous or sycophantic manner.

An archetypal elderly couple.

The evil and malevolent aspect of human personality or society, often referred to in a lighthearted or comic context.

To wait upon someone in an overly assiduous or sycophantic manner.

An archetypal elderly couple.

The evil and malevolent aspect of human personality or society, often referred to in a lighthearted or comic context.

Rape by an acquaintance during a social engagement.

The bottom of the sea; the resting place of drowned mariners.

Blatant and unfair overcharging.

A false and exaggerated belief about one's status or importance.

Heroic daring.

A short growth of beard, aimed to affect a rugged masculine or deliberately unkempt appearance.

An irrevocable choice has been made.

A person who holds stubbornly to a minority view, in defiance of the circumstances.

This term is usually part of 'a fine kettle of fish', 'a pretty kettle of fish' etc, which mean 'a muddle or awkward state of affairs'.

Spiteful and mean spirited.

A mess or muddle.

Dressed or displayed in an ostentatiously smart manner.

Don't offer advice to someone who has more experience than oneself.

A feeling of pessimism and despondency, often with regard to business or political prospects.

An act of treachery, perpetrated on a previous partner in a deceit.

Wasted and unrecoverable.

To fail to recall a memory or fail in some speculative effort.

Dressed flamboyantly or smartly.

A fight.

An affectionate term for wife.

A paid day's work in which the employee is allowed to stay at home for rest and relaxation.

The talking is over - there's no more to be said.

The English dictum that a man's home is his refuge.

Supposedly the last words of Julius Caesar.

Someone who slavishly follows fashion trends.

Be inconstant and unreliable.

Soundly asleep.

Someone sympathetic toward a certain point of view without being a fully paid-up member of the club.

Literal meaning (it means exactly what it says)

A day of excitement or a circumstance of opportunity.

Excellent - especially of food.

Clumsy, unable to hold things steadily in one's hands.

Of the highest quality.

For Christ's sake.

Indefinitely.

There is an appropriate time for everything.

Jew.

Alluding to the alleged inherent weakness of character of women.

A colloquial expression, used to denote icy weather.

One's children.

A stuffy or foolishly old-fashioned person.

Complete, the whole thing.

A derogatory term for a black person, especially one with fuzzy hair.

An exclamation - a euphemistic shortening of God's hooks (the nails on the cross).

The process is in active existence.

Don't concern yourself with something that's already in the past; accept it and move on to more productive pursuits.

Become irritated or annoyed.

The reply of Jesus when tempted by the Devil.

To apply unnecessary ornament - to over embellish.

Drunk; by drinking gin or other alcoholic drink.

Ginger beer = queer, i.e. homosexual.

To go wrong, to become overly excited or deranged.

Go very fast; in a vigorous manner.

Speak or act prematurely.

An expression of disdain, along the same lines as 'get lost', 'go and play in the traffic', etc.

Become ruined.

Prepare for a battle or adopt a warlike stance.

Well-behaved and obedient.

Dependable men, of rank and honour.

An expression of pleasure on seeing rid of some annoyance - usually an individual.

The abandonment of elderly relatives by their carers.

To tackle a difficult problem boldly.

Inform on someone to the police.

Severe traffic congestion, where backed-up traffic blocks movement on intersecting roads and progress is completely halted.

Lose momentum and stop.

Grinning broadly.

A glance made with partially lowered eyelids.

Calm, peaceful days.

Pinch (steal).

A disparaging name for the form of Christian religious observance which is informal, musical and spontaneous.

Unprovoked attacks on individuals made in order to record the event, and especially the victim's shock and surprise, on video phones.

A sign, warning of bad things to come.

Have a look.

Have a dispute to take up with someone or, to have an ulterior motive; to have private ends to serve.

Have a vague intimation of; have a slight knowledge of.

An indication that a piece of information was obtained via an informal contact.

To one's (or your) heart's content means to one's complete inner satisfaction - until one's heart is content.

A mild exclamation of surprise.

Literal meaning (it means exactly what it says)

Agitated.

In a carefree, stylish manner.

A temperamental outburst; a tantrum.

Live in the present, not the past.

Get off to a brisk and successful start.

Injured by the device that you intended to use to injure others.

Pretentiously self-important, haughty or pompous.

Hold on; be patient.

Having a passionate nature, or being inclined to quick temper.

Freshly printed.

In close pursuit of someone/something, or immediately after some event.

A nonsense phrase with no real meaning as such, although it also sometimes used as a jovial greeting.

Literal meaning - it is especially painful to raise an ungrateful child.

In secret; in a clandestine manner.

To have 'another think coming' is to be greatly mistaken.

Eager; ready to participate.

(Stumped means stuck) unable to proceed, often regarding being confounded by some intellectual puzzle.

To be in disgrace or out of favour.

Laughing uproariously.

Virtually secured - as good as in one's possession.

In perfect condition, especially of health.

In debt.

In an instant.

With the inside on the outside.

A jokey alternative version of 'Is the Pope Catholic?'.

A complete and sudden surprise.

Dancing.

Some pleasant event in the future, which is never likely to materialize.

Built in a makeshift and insubstantial manner.

Inextricably linked - inseparable.

A tiny amount.

To reach the point in a TV series that denotes it is irretrievably past its best by introducing some ridiculous or otherwise unbelievable plot device or characterisation in order to boost ratings.

Say nothing - especially in circumstances where saying the wrong thing may get you into trouble.

Remain resolute and unemotional in the face of adversity, or even tragedy.

Keep it secret.

Remain cheerful - keep your head held high.

Be prepared and save your resources until they are needed.

The skill of ball-juggling - to keep a ball in the air for as long as possible by bouncing it off any part of the body that is allowed in the rules of football, i.e. any part except the hands and arms.

A dainty little trinket or ornament.

A reversal of fortune or disappointment.

To finish work for the day.

Play the fool, in a childish or careless manner.

To laugh coarsely or loudly, especially at the discomfort of others.

A figure or object of ridicule and laughter.

Do not hold on to your anger for more than one day.

Without impediment.

Encourage many ideas from many sources.

Headlong; at full speed.

Keep out of sight; bide one's time.

Life begins to be better in one's middle age.

A lot; as in 'hurts like the dickens'.

A description of the British soldiers of WWI.

A person's eyes; more recently, the life force or consciousness.

The whole thing.

Old, especially of horses or people.

An unpredictable person or thing, liable to cause damage if not kept in check by others.

Completely mad.

A literary genre in which magical features and storylines appear and are accepted as everyday reality.

The most important issue.

Many small amounts accumulate to make a large amount.

Literal meaning, alluding to the variety in qualities of humankind.

Have many more happy days, especially birthdays.

May you experience much upheaval and trouble in your life.

The real thing - not a substitute.

I'm to blame.

A wave effect formed when crowds in stadia rise up and down from their seats in succession.

With might and main is 'with all of one's strength'.

Great things may come from small beginnings.

An irrelevant argument.

The condition of having a body weight high enough to pose a severe risk to health.

Said in reply to someone who has reported doing something that is considered to be obviously foolish.

A feast day that falls on the same day of the week each year but which has a date which varies.

People of energetic demeanour, who initiate change and influence events.

Whatever one does in one's life is one's own responsibility and cannot be changed.

Keep quiet - say nothing.

Literal meaning.

Excellent - the highest quality.

Affectionate term for a friend.

To display one's opinions and beliefs.

Childish and weakly sentimental.

Literal meaning (it means exactly what it says)

Literal meaning, but usually used for comic effect.

The slogan of the John Lewis Partnership from the 1920s.

A refusal to accept a proposition - equivalent to 'nothing doing'.

Without restrictions or rules.

Human beings do not thrive when isolated from others.

A 'nosy parker, sometimes spelled nosey parker', is a person of an overly inquisitive or prying nature.

Stupid.

Worthless.

Okay.

An old man, especially one who is eccentric, curmudgeonly or grotesque.

Old-fashioned; hackneyed.

To be in luck; in a prosperous happy state.

On the quiet.

'On the wagon' - abstaining from alcohol.

Let us try again one more time.

A performer or act, usually a singer or band, who has just one popular success.

A final drink taken just before leaving on a journey.

A time when criticism or other negative actions may be expected, with no mercy shown.

Given the sack, i.e. asked to leave your job (see 'get the sack').

Saved from great danger.

Pretty damn quick.

Items of quality offered to those who aren't cultured enough to appreciate them.

An adage to encourage us to think long-term and look after future generations.

The power children have, by repeated nagging, of influencing their parents to buy advertised or fashionable items.

Dwindle away to nothing.

Attend to one's own faults, in preference to pointing out the faults of others.

A share in an activity, or in its profits.

Having a narrow chest with a protruding breastbone - alluding to the appearance of pigeons.

'Pig's ear' is Cockney rhyming slang for beer.

Very hot, usually referring to food.

An easy, uncomplicated course.

Feet.

Description of the practice of using speech that conforms to liberal or radical opinion by avoiding language which might cause offence to or disadvantage social minorities.

Close enough to go directly to a target.

A race, usually a horse-race, in a direct line across countryside.

Lies.

Port out, starboard home.

Take one's chance as to what meal one is served when accepting another's hospitality.

To commend an opinion to those who already accept it.

Now chiefly used to mean absurd; ridiculous.

Induce someone to join the military.

Make every possible effort.

To move home.

Improve your situation by your own efforts.

A request to be quiet.

Deliberately causing mayhem.

Die.

Embark on a journey or task with purpose and gusto.

Hurt your feelings or upset your plans.

Time in which individual attention is given to an otherwise neglected child or partner.

Something given in return for an item of equivalent value - like tit for tat.

Talk.

A common rabble - the hoi polloi.

A reference to the sometimes violent natural world, in which predatory animals unsentimentally cover their teeth and claws with the blood of their prey as they kill and devour them.

In earlier times a church festival or saint's day; more recently, any special day.

A thing which has neither rhyme nor reason makes no sense, from either a poetic or logical standpoint.

Verse from a nursery rhyme.

Bring something to an end.

Separating something from usual judgement and guaranteeing its protection, especially the funds of a project.

Horse dung.

Aggressively argumentative, and sometimes violent, behaviour indulged in by drivers when annoyed by other road users' actions.

To take from one merely to give to another; to discharge one debt by incurring another.

An event that is disreputable or strange.

To 'run amok', which is sometimes spelled 'run amuck', is to behave in a wild or unruly manner.

Escape from injury; avoid harm, especially to one's body.

Without incurring payment: or escaping without punishment.

Be firm and resolute.

The full version of the acronym SWALK.

An elderly person; one who is past the age of retirement.

To be ignored or ostracised.

Separate the good from the bad.

All of it; the whole thing.

A lengthy, improbable and ultimately pointless story, often told in an attempt at humour.

One's legs, used as a means of transport.

A hopeful attempt.

To abscond, or depart quickly.

To make short work of - to give little consideration to.

A very long time.

Don't bother to pursue your application further.

Don't change your leader or your basic position when part-way through a campaign or a project.

Don't offer advice to someone who has more experience than oneself.

A feeling of pessimism and despondency, often with regard to business or political prospects.

An act of treachery, perpetrated on a previous partner in a deceit.

Wasted and unrecoverable.

To fail to recall a memory or fail in some speculative effort.

Dressed flamboyantly or smartly.

A fight.

An affectionate term for wife.

A paid day's work in which the employee is allowed to stay at home for rest and relaxation.

Act submissively and apologetically, especially in admitting an error.

A display of confidence in a particular outcome.

Conveying an untrue version of events by leaving out the important facts.

Embark on a journey or task with purpose and gusto.

Hurt your feelings or upset your plans.

Time in which individual attention is given to an otherwise neglected child or partner.