Technology/emotions/Shakespeare/BBC

Question 1

Growing luxuriantly, common, increasing (as crime, weeds, disease)

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Rampant

Question 2

A digital technology expert or enthusiast; very skilled in a subject

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Geek

Question 3

To increase dramatically

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To spiral

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Cheerful readiness, willingness; to do smth quickly and eagerly

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Alacrity

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To enclose within bounds, limit or restrict; prevent from spreading beyond a place or a group

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To confine

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A coming into place, arrival, start, coming into existence

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Advent

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A go-between or mediator passing information between two sides

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Intermediary

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Beginning, start, esp of smth bad or unpleasant

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Onset

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To stop; discontinue

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To cease

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An ingenious or novel device to attract extra attention or deceive

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Gimmick

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To regard with respect, venerate

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To revere

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Weighed down, loaded down, burdened

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Laden with

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Strong or eager desire, craving

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Thirst

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To invent

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To come up with

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Rubbish

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Junk

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To make a call to

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To get through to

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To crash

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To fail/go down

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Everyday

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Commonplace

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To stay abreast of

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To keep up with

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Welcome happily

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Take to sth with alacrity

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Lose your nerve

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Push the panic button

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Not difficult to understand

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Not rocket science

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Lose your temper

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Blow a fuse

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Have a misunderstanding with someone

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Get your wires crossed

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Be very advanced

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Be light years ahead

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Have similar views

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Be on the same wavelength

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A smooth-running organization

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A well-oiled machine

Question 28

Work very productively

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Fire on all cylinders

Question 29

Waste time devising smth that already exists

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Reinvent the wheel

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Spoil a plan

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Throw a spanner in the works

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Somebody you love and protect

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The apple of somebody's eyes

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Only just manage to do sth

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By the skin of your teeth

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Honest person

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The salt of the earth

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Too soon

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Early days

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Shy person

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Tongue tied

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Critically important

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Defining

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Perceiving; becoming conscious of; knowing

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Cognizing

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Evident, definite

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Clear-cut

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Substitute to act on behalf of someone else

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Proxy

Question 40

A manner of solving problems using an indirect or creative approach via reasoning that is not immediately obvious

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Lateral thinking

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To be disappointed

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To be absolutely gutted

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To be overwhelmed

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To be completely blown away

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To be distraught

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To be beside yourself

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Not interested

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Be bored rigid

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To be delighted

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To be thrilled to bits

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To complain

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To make such a fuss

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To explode with anger

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To totally lose it

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Exceedingly eager or avid; having a strong desire to have a lot of something

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Voracious

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To endanger; to put smb in danger

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To imperil

Question 50

Something next to sth; contiguous

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Adjacent

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To stand or rise stiffly; to show you are angry

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To bristle

Question 52

The act or process of burning

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Combustion

Question 53

Unmindful, unconscious, forgetful; not noticing sth that is happening around

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Oblivious

Question 54

To try hard to understand a difficult idea or solve a problem

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To grapple with sth

Question 55

A state of cessation of movement or action; situation when there is no activity

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Standstill

Question 56

A mound or bank of snow driven together by the wind

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Snowdrift