Miscellaneous Vocabulary (D) MCQs

Nonsense, rubbish.

A kindred spirit - someone I can agree with.

To minister is to serve, or act as a subordinate agent.

The notion that everything should have a place to be stored in and that it should be tidily returned there when not in use.

A frustrated curse on both sides of an argument.

From the previous.

A radical, and apparently mystical, change.

A stimulus.

A welcome visitor - someone you are glad to see.

Someone who hides malicious intent under the guise of kindliness.

Literal meaning (it means exactly what it says)

Join a conversation in which another is speaking continually and leaving little opportunity for others.

Change direction.

Openly - without any trickery.

The lack of something increases the desire for it.

Used to highlight and ridicule snobbish forms of behaviour or speech.

The good life, full of pleasure and indulgence.

Work undertaken for the pleasure of it or for the benefit of a loved one.

Sleep very soundly.

Sleep well.

Sloane Rangers, or latterly just Sloanes or Sloanies are upper class and fashion-conscious but conventional young people, living in the more expensive parts of West London.

A scruffy or dirty person; one who washes rarely.

Betrayed or cheated.

A rogue or scamp.

A spelling contest.

To use a public lavatory.

Entirely new - fresh or unused.

Stop and give me your valuables.

A loyal and reliable friend.

Using the understanding gained by major thinkers who have gone before in order to make intellectual progress.

Someone 'steals your thunder' when they use your ideas or inventions to their own advantage.

A narrow-minded or unprogressive person; one who lacks initiative.

A difficult situation.

Cruel and unfeeling.

A decoy bird, or a police informer, or criminal's look-out or decoy.

Be enthusiastic to free oneself from the restrictions that bar one's progress.

An acceptance of the unpredictable fortunes of existence, often spoken with an air of weary resignation.

A type of cuisine that combines both meat and seafood (especially lobster and steak), or restaurants that serve such cuisine.

Surfing (a.k.a.

Take control of a situation.

Carry off the honours.

Tease or make fun of.

Ronald Reagan; referring to his ability to get into politically 'dirty' areas but emerge with his reputation and popularity unscathed and with no 'mud' sticking.

The catchphrase on the banner shown at the end of Looney Tunes cartoons.

Originally meaning the central aperture of the eye.

Close interrogation.

A literal view of the subject of remarriage.

The people habitually suspected or arrested in response to a crime.

Literal meaning (it means exactly what it says)

The weather is cold.

Through all forms of obstacle that are put in one's way.

The span of a life.

This slogan was used by US President Clinton to publicize his plans for mandatory life sentences for those convicted of a third violent offence.

Make or take up a challenge, or demonstrate one's willingness to join an enterprise.

No one is so powerful that they can stop the march of time.

Attacking imaginary enemies.

Inoperative; broken.

Something that is 'toe-curlingly embarrassing' is discomforting enough as to make one squirm and curl one's toes in response.

Snobbish; supercilious; stuck-up.

In an ironic manner, not meant to be taken seriously.

At once.

Someone who can be relied on to provide support and comfort.

The ultimatum given by children who call on houses to solicit gifts at Halloween.

To knowingly refuse to acknowledge something which you know to be real.

Reverse the positions of adversaries.

All of the time - twenty four hours/day and seven days/week.

With most phrases it is the origin rather than the meaning that is in doubt.

Up the stairs.

Euphemism for pregnant.

Relax in a slothful and mindless manner.

The reverse of the previous statement, with the main items transposed.

A self-perpetuating process which returns to its starting point with no improvement from when it was begun.

'We have become a grandmother' was UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's statement to the press in 1989, on the birth of her first grandchild, Mark Thatcher's son Michael.

A threat of violence.

Be in charge.

I am plainly saying no, and I mean just that.

A computer screen display which appears onscreen as it will be seen when printed on paper.

A rhetorical question, suggesting that what is being spoken of is without fault.

Suit.

Send away or abandon.

Pertaining to the US white middle classes.

A prediction, usually expressed as a warning following someone's bad behaviour, that you may suffer future misfortune.

I am distressed; sad; grieved.

A colloquial greeting.

The choice that was given to the victims of highwaymen and other robbers.

You are unpopular.

A series of short straight lines, set at angles to one another and connected to form a continuous line, often forming a regular pattern, but not necessarily so.

A person who loves or collects books.

Sentimental longing for things that are past.

No amount of persuasion can make him take decision to resign his office for he has burnt his boats.

Someone who copies another person's work or action.

The procedures that will be followed to do something.

Honest treatment.

A translation that is not totally accurate.

Much, a lot.

The skill to make plants grow.

Money paid illegally for favourable treatment.

A serious fight or argument.

A person who acts as if he or she knows everything.

An ambiguous compliment interpreted as offensive.

Someone who performs messenger services, an errand boy.

A long distance or trip.

Someone or something which is full of information.

A wrong or mistaken decision in a court of law.

A varied collection of people or things.

A job with regular and normal hours.

A person who makes a reservation for something and then neither comes nor cancels it.

A situation where there is no satisfactory solution.

An unfair treatment.

A car driver who uses more than his share of road.

An approximate estimate/guess.

There is going to be trouble or a storm is coming.

Someone who is new and unknown to a person/place/thing.

Something that is sure to happen.

Specially for everyone and everything.

Refer to something indirectly, by suggestion.

The false assignment of an event, person, scene or language to a time when the event or thing did not exist.

As if a group were one person.

In response to the request made.

The way something is.

A short romance, typically in verse, usually involving some element of the supernatural.

Posh society girls with un-posh tastes.

In the way.

Foolish.

Can easily fix things.

A system of persons or things arranged in a graded order.

An economic doctrine that opposes governmental regulation of or interference in commerce beyond the minimum necessary for a free-enterprise system to operate according to its own economic laws.

A very substantial victory (usually in an election).

The members of a group and not the leader, regular soldiers and not the officers.

To be assured, to be certain.

To lie dead peacefully for eternity.

Stubborn, impatient, restless.

To change a number to the next higher or lower whole number.

A meeting held after a larger meeting.

To be safe/whole/healthy.

To be better than everything.

A power to know or feel things other than by sight/hearing/smell/taste/touch.

To advertise anything, everything and all sorts in between through the use of hand-naff signals and dubbed sound effects.

Social rank, occupation.

Damage as a result of ordinary use.

Strength of mind.

A lot of talk about little things.

Cheap and overly sensational newspaper writing.

The exact time when an attack or other military action will start.

A symbol of honour and achievement.

Someone in a situation they are unsuited to.

A small but irritating flaw that spoils the whole thing.

A small but irritating flaw that spoils the whole thing.

A state of happiness based on false hope.

An introduction or way in to something, made in order that progress may be made later.

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.

Nonsense, rubbish.

A kindred spirit - someone I can agree with.

To minister is to serve, or act as a subordinate agent.

The notion that everything should have a place to be stored in and that it should be tidily returned there when not in use.

A frustrated curse on both sides of an argument.

From the previous.

A radical, and apparently mystical, change.

A stimulus.

A welcome visitor - someone you are glad to see.

Someone who hides malicious intent under the guise of kindliness.

Literal meaning (it means exactly what it says)

Join a conversation in which another is speaking continually and leaving little opportunity for others.

Change direction.

Openly - without any trickery.

The lack of something increases the desire for it.

An act which is accepted legally as being outside human control.

Behave foolishly.

A genre of popular fiction.

'To aid memory'.

Italian - literally 'in the fresh'.

In a state of confusion and disorder.

Not at any price.

A burden which some unfortunate person has to carry.

The notion that for every wrong done there should be a compensating measure of justice.

A horrible year.

A stance, with the arms on the hips and elbows turned outwards.

Pertaining to, or having an interest in, the arts - often pretentiously and affectedly so.

Feelings of depression or anxiety, experienced by some mothers following childbirth.

Place a bet on all the horses in a race, except one.

A return to previously held values of decency.

To be in disgrace or out of favour.

Someone or something that disappoints expectations.

A day on which one's hair seems unmanageable.

The difference between the value of the imports and exports that a nation makes.

Completely bald.

A 20th century slang term, meaning wife.

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.

A misheard lyric.

Please forgive my swearing.

A procedure whereby criminal suspects are sent for interrogation from one country to a second country, where less strict laws governing interrogation apply.

A scapegoat; one who takes on the responsibilities or workload of others.

A euphemism for 'to acquire illegally'.

Commit suicide or offer your resignation.