Miscellaneous Vocabulary (T) MCQs

Rape by an acquaintance during a social engagement.

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

Blatant and unfair overcharging.

A dainty little trinket or ornament.

A reversal of fortune or disappointment.

To finish work for the day.

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.

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.

'No points' - the lowest possible score awarded to performers in the Eurovision Song Contest.

This is the rebuke levelled at the disciples of Christ, when seeming to doubt his divinity.

God's body.

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.

Make every possible effort.

To move home.

Improve your situation by your own efforts.

A request to be quiet.

Deliberately causing mayhem.

Die.

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.

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.

Originally meaning the central aperture of the eye.

A lonely forsaken place.

The most attractive woman at a social gathering.

Originally meaning the central aperture of the eye.

A lonely forsaken place.

The most attractive woman at a social gathering.

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

All of it - full measure.

Disaster or danger is imminent.

A person with great responsibilities, such as a king, is constantly worried.

Brutus was Caesar's close and trusted friend.

Following a course of action that leads to no good outcome.

A person with great responsibilities, such as a king, is constantly worried.

Brutus was Caesar's close and trusted friend.

Following a course of action that leads to no good outcome.

A person with great responsibilities, such as a king, is constantly worried.

Brutus was Caesar's close and trusted friend.

Following a course of action that leads to no good outcome.

A person with great responsibilities, such as a king, is constantly worried.

Brutus was Caesar's close and trusted friend.

Following a course of action that leads to no good outcome.

A person with great responsibilities, such as a king, is constantly worried.

Brutus was Caesar's close and trusted friend.

Following a course of action that leads to no good outcome.

A person with great responsibilities, such as a king, is constantly worried.

Brutus was Caesar's close and trusted friend.

Following a course of action that leads to no good outcome.

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.

Common, easy to get and of little value.

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.

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.