Hisaaki Muroga Round 2

Question 1

garish

Answer 1

unpleasantly bright:

Question 2

hulk

Answer 2

the body of an old ship, car, or very large piece of equipment that is broken and no longer used:

Question 3

threadbare

Answer 3

Threadbare material or clothes have become thin or damaged because they have been used a lot:

Question 4

mortuaries/mortuary

Answer 4

a building, or a room in a hospital, etc. where dead bodies are kept before they are sent to be buried or burned, sometimes so that they can be examined

Question 5

secretariat

Answer 5

the office or people responsible for the management of an organization, especially an international or political one

Question 6

slouches

Answer 6

to stand, sit, or walk with the shoulders hanging forward and the head bent slightly over so that you look tired and bored:

Question 7

omniscient

Answer 7

having or seeming to have unlimited knowledge:

Question 8

rosary

Answer 8

a string of beads (= little decorative balls) used especially by Roman Catholics and Buddhists to count prayers, or the prayers themselves:

Question 9

dimness

Answer 9

the quality of not having or giving much light:

Question 10

queasy

Answer 10

feeling that you want to vomit:

Question 11

raucous

Answer 11

loud and unpleasant:

Question 12

provisions

Answer 12

the act of providing something:

Question 13

indulgently

Answer 13

in a way that allows someone to have or do what they want, especially when this is not good for them:

Question 14

tatter

Answer 14

a part torn and left hanging

Question 15

hunch

Answer 15

an idea that is based on feeling and for which there is no proof:

Question 16

prudently

Answer 16

in a way that is careful and avoids risks:

Question 17

cordially

Answer 17

in a way that is friendly, but formal and polite:

Question 18

inadvertently

Answer 18

in a way that is not intentional:

Question 19

overtly

Answer 19

in a way that is done or shown publicly or in an obvious way and not secret:

Question 20

antecedent

Answer 20

someone or something existing or happening before, especially as the cause or origin of something existing or happening later:

Question 21

impending

Answer 21

used to refer to an event, usually something unpleasant or unwanted, that is going to happen soon:

Question 22

innocuous

Answer 22

completely harmless (= causing no harm):

Question 23

perpetual

Answer 23

continuing for ever in the same way:

Question 24

tentative

Answer 24

(of a plan or idea) not certain or agreed, or (of a suggestion or action) said or done in a careful but uncertain way because you do not know if you are right:

Question 25

warrant

Answer 25

to make a particular activity necessary:

Question 26

prominent

Answer 26

very well known and important:

Question 27

exploited

Answer 27

to use something in a way that helps you:

Question 28

sanction

Answer 28

an official order, such as the stopping of trade, that is taken against a country in order to make it obey international law:

Question 29

ameliorate

Answer 29

to make a bad or unpleasant situation better:

Question 30

rationalize

Answer 30

to try to find reasons to explain your behaviour, decisions, etc.:

Question 31

postulate

Answer 31

to suggest a theory, idea, etc. as a basic principle from which a further idea is formed or developed:

Question 32

antagonistic

Answer 32

actively opposing or showing unfriendliness towards something or someone:

Question 33

imitated

Answer 33

to behave in a similar way to someone or something else, or to copy the speech or behaviour, etc. of someone or something: