Text Completion P15

Question 1

Piquant

“More piquant details of their private life were revealed”

Answer 1

Adj. Interesting

Question 2

Indolence

“After a sudden burst of activity, the team lapsed back into indolence.

Answer 2

Noun. The state of showing no real interest or effort

Question 3

Queasiness

“Apart from a slight queasiness, physically she felt quite fit”

Answer 3

Noun. The feeling want to vomit.

Question 4

Cloying

“This is a wonderful wine without being remotely cloying”

“She criticized the cloying sentimentality of the film”

Answer 4

Adj. tasting or smelling too sweet and therefore unpleasant.

Adj. too emotional by displaying love of kindness that doesn’t seem real

Question 5

Meticulous

Answer 5

Adj. very careful and with a great attention to every detail

Question 6

Boastful

“I do not want to sound boastful, but my report should not be reduced to that issue”

Answer 6

Adj. praising yourself and what you have done

Question 7

Ambivalence

“Her ambivalence towards that man”

Answer 7

Noun. Having two opposing feelings at the same time; being uncertain

Question 8

Reproach

“His mother reproached him for not eating all his dinner”

Answer 8

Verb. Upbraid; to criticize someone

Question 9

Scruple

“He is a man without scruple, he has no conscience”

Answer 9

Noun. Feeling of Honour or Moral