Feb 14

Question 1

Conduit

Answer 1

Канал

The office acts as a conduit for ideas to flow throughout the organization

Question 2

Contentious

Answer 2

ADJ
Causing or likely to cause an argument; controversial
E: a contentious issue

Question 3

Comtemplate

Answer 3

verb

: to view or consider with continued attention
E: “he sat on the carpet contemplating his image in the mirrors”

Question 4

Unwitting

Answer 4

not aware of the full facts

unwitting participants in the study were

Question 5

Devised

Answer 5

plan or invent (a complex procedure, system, or mechanism) by careful thought

E: The question, which was also devised by Shane Frederick, is again a challenge to System 2. The “trick”

Question 6

Aptitude

Answer 6

A natural ability to do something
E: If people were ranked by their self-control and by their cognitive aptitude,

Question 7

Sustenance

Answer 7

food and drink regarded as a source of strength; nourishment.
E: poor rural economies turned to potatoes for sustenance

Question 8

Put up with

Answer 8

tolerate or endure something.
E: “I’m too tired to put up with any nonsense”

Question 9

Judicious

Answer 9

having, exercising, or characterized by sound judgment
E: judicious investments
E: a judicious decision

Question 10

Peacock

Answer 10

Павлин

Question 11

Contempt

Answer 11

the feeling that a person or a thing is beneath consideration, worthless, or deserving scorn.

E: “he showed his contempt for his job by doing it very badly”

Question 12

Susceptible

Answer 12

likely or liable to be influenced or harmed by a particular thing.
E: “patients with liver disease may be susceptible to infection”

Question 13

Confine

Answer 13

to limit an activity, person, or problem in some way:
E: Let’s confine our discussion to the matter in question, please!

to keep someone closed in a place, often by force (usually passive)
E: The hostages had been confined for so long that they couldn’t cope with the outside world.

Question 14

Coherent

Answer 14

ADJ
(of an argument, theory, or policy) logical and consistent.
E: “they failed to develop a coherent economic strategy”

Question 15

Strident

Answer 15

Loud and harsh,

Question 16

Premonition

Answer 16

COUNTABLE NOUN
If you have a premonition, you have a feeling that something is going to happen, often something unpleasant.
E: premonition of disaster

Question 17

Contrive

Answer 17

to arrange a situation or event, or arrange for something to happen, using clever planning

E:Couldn’t you contrive a meeting between them? I think they’d really like each other.
E: Somehow she contrived to get tickets for the concert.

to invent and/or make a device or other object in a clever and possibly unusual way

E: Do you think you could contrive something for hanging my clothes on until I can get a wardrobe?

Question 18

Animate

Answer 18

V to give life to : make alive

N possessing or characterized by life

Question 19

Cohesion

Answer 19

I. noun — [ mass noun] 1. the action or fact of forming a united whole • the work at present lacks cohesion.

Question 20

Industrious

Answer 20

Diligent and hardworking
E: An industrious people are making their country better.

Question 21

Confront

Answer 21

Come face-to-face with someone with hostile or argumentative intent

Question 22

Conform

Answer 22

Comply with rules, standards, or laws
E: he had the choice of conforming to these requirements,

Question 23

Tresspass

Answer 23

Enter someones’s land or property without a permission

Question 24

Diligent

Answer 24

careful and serious in your work, or done in a careful and determined way

E: A diligent worker
E: They made a diligent efforts to carry out their programa

Question 25

Answer to my question

Question 26

Cloth

Answer 26

Ткань