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Question 1

happy medium

Answer 1

a satisfactory compromise.

strike a happy medium (between something and something)
a way of doing something that is not extreme but is somewhere between two possible choices

I always tried to strike a happy medium between having a home that looked like a bomb had hit it and becoming obsessively tidy.

Question 2

A la carte

Answer 2

if food in a restaurant is à la carte, each dish has a separate price
“an à la carte menu”
big mac comes with drink. If big mac a la carte, it will come big mac only.

Question 3

A bun in the oven

Answer 3

have a bun in the oven

British English informal to be pregnant – used humorously

Question 4

pre·sump·tu·ous

Answer 4

doing something that you have no right to do and that seems rude

• I have found the way I have been treated by qualified and unqualified people patronising and presumptuous and deeply offensive.
• It would be presumptuous of me to speak on behalf of my colleagues.

Question 5

slog

Answer 5

It was an epic slog.
1 to work hard at something without stopping, especially when the work is difficult, tiring, or boring
Mother slogged all her life for us.

Question 6

contemplate

Answer 6

As much as I loved church, the idea of a nice-hous slog, from mixed church to white church to black church then dounling nack to white church againb, was just too much to contemplate.
3 [intransitive, transitive] to think about something seriously for a period of time SYN consider
Jack went on vacation to contemplate his future.
contemplate what/whether/how etc
She sat down and contemplated what she had done.

Question 7

intricacy

Answer 7

I was aware of the fact that there was a thing called apartheid and it was ending and that was a big deal, but I didn’t understand the intricacies of it.
the intricacies of something
the complicated details of something

Question 8

spate

Answer 8

Spates of violence broke out between the Inkatha Freedom party and the ANC, the African National Congress, as they jockeyed for power.
spate of something
a large number of similar things that happen in a short period of time, especially bad things

Question 9

jockey

Answer 9

to compete strongly to get into the best position or situation, or to get the most power
jockey for
photographers jockeying for position at the bar
After the war, rival politicians began to jockey for power.

Question 10

torso

Answer 10

That’s whewre people would hold someone down and out a rubber tire over his torso, pinning his arms.
1 your body, not including your head, arms, or legs