Week2

Question 1

Laconic

Answer 1

Expressing much in few words

Question 2

Throng

Answer 2

Noisy, aggressive, loud, crowd

Question 3

Intrepid

Answer 3

Brave

Question 4

Accost

Answer 4

To approach or speak to aggressively

Question 5

Reticent

Answer 5

Silent

Question 6

The sword of Damocles

Answer 6

You are never safe and there will always be pressure when you are the king. (A king seated one of his subjects underneath a sword that’s was hanging by a hair, in order to teach him the dangers a king faces.)

Question 7

Vigilant

Answer 7

To watch, watchful, carefully watching

Question 8

Gesticulate

Answer 8

Move arms energetically while speaking

Question 9

Pretext

Answer 9

An excuse, fake reason that hides the real reason

Question 10

Fabricate

Answer 10

To lie or to construct, to make or to make up

Question 11

Adroit

Answer 11

Skillful

Question 12

A wet blanket

Answer 12

Not want to have fun and ruin it for everyone Ronnie the wet blanket took his speaker when he went home

Question 13

Pyrrhic victory

Answer 13

To costly victory I won but it cost me a lot

Question 14

Avid

Answer 14

Eager

Question 15

Nuance

Answer 15

Slight variation in Meaning, tone, etc.

Question 16

Cajole

Answer 16

Coax the cat refused to be cajole into entering the cage

Question 17

Rudimentary

Answer 17

Elementary

Question 18

Enhance

Answer 18

Intensify, heighten

Question 19

To beard the lion in his den-to visit and oppose a person in his grounds