CAM 9 TEST 1 READING

Question 1

prompt

Answer 1

encourage, stimulate, motivate

Question 2

stumbling upon

Answer 2

come across = to find or discover something by
chance and unexpectedly

Question 3

immersed in

Answer 3

completely involved in

Question 4

Quinine

Answer 4

a drug used for fighting malaria and other fevers

Question 5

eminent

Answer 5

famous, prominent

Question 6

malaria

Answer 6

a disease usually spread by infected mosquitoes

Question 7

take up

Answer 7

to start

Question 8

sludge

Answer 8

soft thick mud, especially at the
bottom of a liquid

Question 9

mucus

Answer 9

a thick liquid produced in parts of
your body such as your nose

Question 10

grasp

Answer 10

to understand

Question 11

empress

Answer 11

the female ruler of an empire

Question 12

flatter

Answer 12

praise somewhat dishonestly

Question 13

be all the rage

Answer 13

fashionable and popular

Question 14

clamour for

Answer 14

demand st loudly

Question 15

go back to the drawing board

Answer 15

start again from the beginning

Question 16

extra-terrestrial

Answer 16

outer space

Question 17

haunt

Answer 17

to cause problems for someone over a long period of time

Question 18

detection

Answer 18

discovery

Question 19

poised on the brink/edge of something

Answer 19

completely ready to do something or for
something to happen, when it is likely to
happen soon

Question 20

tenuous

Answer 20

uncertain, weak

Question 21

attenuate

Answer 21

to weaken

Question 22

traverse

Answer 22

pass through

Question 23

transmit

Answer 23

send out

Question 24

at short notice

Answer 24

if you do something at short
notice, you do not have very much time to
prepare for it

Question 25

a host of

Answer 25

a large number of

Question 26

parched

Answer 26

dry

Question 27

thoroughgoing

Answer 27

very thorough

Question 28

terrestrial

Answer 28

relating to land

Question 29

re-tool

Answer 29

to organize sth in a new way

Question 30

cease to do smt

Answer 30

to stop doing something or stop happening

Question 31

vertebrate

Answer 31

An animal with a backbone

Question 32

descend from

Answer 32

to come from

Question 33

fin

Answer 33

one of the thin body parts that a fish
uses to swim

Question 34

cluster of something

Answer 34

bunch, group, collection

Question 35

amphibious

Answer 35

able to live both on land and in water

Question 36

in the thick of

Answer 36

involved in the busiest,
most active, most dangerous etc part of a
situation

Question 37

constitute

Answer 37

form

Question 38

emerge

Answer 38

to come out

Question 39

primeval

Answer 39

extremely ancient; of earliest time