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Question 1

aqua

Answer 1

You have confused aqua wth turquoise.

a light bluish-green color; aquamarine.

Question 2

turquoise

Answer 2

2 [uncountable] a greenish-blue colour

Question 3

give you a leg up

Answer 3

If you’re black in South Africa, speaking English is the one thing that can give you a leg up.
informal
a) to help someone to get up to a high place by joining your hands together so they can use them as a step
b) British English to help someone succeed in their job

Question 4

equate

Answer 4

English comprehension is equated with intelligence.

to consider that two things are similar or connected

Question 5

mug

Answer 5

…and I could hear them talking to one another about how they were going to mug me.
[transitive] to attack someone and rob them in a public place
A lot of people won’t go out alone at night because they’re afraid of being mugged.
2 [intransitive] American English informal to make silly expressions with your face or behave in a silly way, especially for a photograph or in a play
mug for
All the kids were mugging for the camera.

mug up
informal to try to learn something in a short time, especially for an examination SYN swot up
on
Jeannie can’t come. She’s busy mugging up on science for her exam.

Question 6

clique

Answer 6

We had the same teachers. There were no racial seperation. Every clique was racially mixed.
a small group of people who think they are special and do not want other people to join them – used to show disapproval
clique of
a ruling clique of officials
the cliques formed by high school students

Question 7

berth

Answer 7

I had a wide berth to explore myself. I had crushes on white girls. I had crushes on black girls. Nobody asked me what I was.
berth1 /bɜːθ $ bɜːrθ/ noun [countable]
1 a place where a ship can stop and be tied up
2 a place for someone to sleep on a ship or on a train SYN bunk

give somebody/something a wide berth
to avoid someone or something

Question 8

aptitude

Answer 8

I had to take an aptitude test before I started.

1 natural ability or skill, especially in learning

Question 9

hit it off

Answer 9

We started talking and hit it off.

hit it off (with somebody)
informal if two people hit it off, they like each other as soon as they meet
I knew you’d hit it off with Mike.

Question 10

beneath

Answer 10

…during apartheid white people were always taught that those languages were beneath them.
4 not good enough or suitable for someone