Unit 4 Reading Word

Question 1

Unremarkable

Answer 1

Comun/ordinary but not important

Question 2

Poignant

Answer 2

Very strong feeling of sadness

Question 3

Shattered

Answer 3

Broken (feeling, memories…)

Question 4

Adjust to

Answer 4

Adapt to

Question 5

Haphazardly

Answer 5

Randomly

Question 6

Aisle

Answer 6

Narrow space between two two shelves

Question 7

Acquired

Answer 7

Obtain or begin to have something

Question 8

Graveyard

Answer 8

Cementery

Question 9

Grandly

Answer 9

Impressively

Question 10

Alongside

Answer 10

Next to

Question 11

Unappealing

Answer 11

Unattractive

Question 12

Let down by their off-putting names

Answer 12

Somebody or soemthing less likely to be success because of their names

Question 13

Flaws

Answer 13

Mistakes

Question 14

Regrettable

Answer 14

Feel sad or sorry because of something that happened you wish had not happened

Question 15

Roughly

Answer 15

Approximately

Question 16

Pathos

Answer 16

Quality in a person that makes yoou feel sad or sorry for them

Question 17

Capture

Answer 17

Express what something/somebody is really like in a way that people can understand it clearly

Question 18

Impermanence

Answer 18

temporary nature things

Question 19

Imparted

Answer 19

give something

Question 20

Fleeting

Answer 20

continue for a very short time

Question 21

Understatedly

Answer 21

not trying to attract attention and therefore attractive and effective

Question 22

Embody

Answer 22

include/conclude

Question 23

Mortgage

Answer 23

a legal agreement in which you borrow money from a bank in order to buy a house. You pay back your mortgage by making monthly payments

Question 24

Ride on

Answer 24

depend on

Question 25

Albeit

Answer 25

although

Question 26

Merely

Answer 26

only

Question 27

Per se

Answer 27

considered by itself: used for emphasizing that you are not considering something in relation to anything else The job, per se, isn’t particularly interesting, but it pays well.

Question 28

Purchased

Answer 28

buy something

Question 29

Outgrow

Answer 29

Increase the space

Question 30

Upstate

Answer 30

in the northern part of a state in the US

Question 31

Buy out

Answer 31

to pay money to your business partner so that you can control all of a business you previously owned together

Question 32

Estimate

Answer 32

amount of something you guess with the informstion you have

Question 33

Indiscriminately

Answer 33

in an unplanned way

Question 34

Hoard

Answer 34

large amount of something that has been hidden or saved

Question 35

Overwhelmingly

Answer 35

used for emphasizing the amount of something

Question 36

Striking

Answer 36

attracting your interest because of some unsual feature Feature ( an important part or aspect of something)

Question 37

Profit-making

Answer 37

intended to make a profit/money

Question 38

Worthy

Answer 38

Deserved something

Question 39

Stewarded resource

Answer 39

well-taken care of

Question 40

Unwilling

Answer 40

not wanting to do something

Question 41

Belatedly

Answer 41

in a way that comes later than expected

Question 42

Aversion

Answer 42

Strong feeling that you dislike sth./sb.

Question 43

Doomed

Answer 43

Certain to fail

Question 44

Prospect

Answer 44

Possibility that sth. will happen, normally sth. good

Question 45

Bring up for discussion

Answer 45

Start discussing a subject