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Questions and Answers List

level questions: Level-13

QuestionAnswer
the act of thinking deeply and seriously about somethingmeditation,_,She found him sitting alone, deep in meditation.
a chemical substance produced by your body that influences its growth, development, and conditionhormone,_,Her condition has improved since she had hormone treatment.
a chemical in the body that helps carry messages from the brain and is believed to make you feel happyserotonin,_,Successful students seem to have high levels of serotonin.
a long race of about 26 miles or 42 kilometresmarathon,_,Garcia ran the marathon in just under three hours.
a chemical produced by your body that reduces pain and can make you feel happierendorphin,_,Exercises increases endorphins in the body and make you feel happier.
one of the small parts of the surface of your tongue with which you can taste thingstaste bud,_,Some people's taste buds don't work very well and they find it difficult to taste the food they eat.
a small thin red or green pepper with a very strong hot tastechilly,_,She puts chillies in everything when she cooks.
very severe painagony,_,He groaned in agony.
to gradually disappearfade,_,Hopes of a peace settlement are beginning to fade.
to not allow someone or something to stay in a particular placebanish,_,I was banished to a distant corridor.
an illness that makes people feel sad and tired in winter, because there is not enough light from the sunseasonal affective disorder,_,Those who suffer from seasonal affective disorder have a strong peak in the autumn and winter months.
a sudden strong movement of wind or airblast,_,A blast of cold air swept through the hut.
someone who does not like other people and prefers to be alonemisanthrope,_,He can only be described as a misanthrope. He hates socialising.
to move so that you are lying or sitting with your arms and legs bent close to your bodycurl up,_,I just wanted to curl up and go to sleep.
to lightly touch someone or something several times with your hand flat, especially to give comfortpat,_,He patted the dog affectionately.
intended to be helpful but in fact making a situation worsemisguided,_,He described the government’s economic policy as misguided.
an idea which is wrong or untrue, but which people believe because they do not understand the subject properlymisconception,_,There is a popular misconception that too much exercise is bad for you.
likely to make someone believe something that is not truemisleading,_,The article was misleading, and the newspaper has apologized.
a feeling of doubt or fear about what might happen or about whether something is rightmisgiving,_,Despite her misgivings about leaving the baby, she decided to accompany her husband.
the action of not understanding the correct meaning of something that someone says or does, or of facts that you are consideringmisinterpretation,_,The problems were caused by a misinterpretation of the test results.
a small mistake, especially a spelling mistake, in a book, magazine etcmisprint,_,There are rather a lot of misprints in that book.
showing no desire to be noticed or given special treatmentunassuming,_,His unassuming manner was rather charming.
without realizing what you are doinginadvertently,_,Robinson’s name was inadvertently omitted from the list.
food or drink that is insipid does not have much tasteinsipid,_,Our meal consisted of a very insipid pasta dish followed by an even more insipid dessert.
someone or something that is nondescript looks very ordinary and is not at all interesting or unusualnondescript,_,She was looking at an extremely nondescript suburban house.
in the style of 20th century art or literature in which the artist or writer connects unrelated images and objects in a strange waysurrealist,_,I find surrealist paintings very disturbing to look at.
a work of art, a piece of writing or music etc that is of very high quality or that is the best that a particular artist, writer etc has producedmasterpiece,_,Mary Shelley was just 18 when she wrote the horror masterpiece ‘Frankenstein’.
behaving calmly and not seeming interested in anything or worried about anythingnonchalant,_,‘Has he got a girlfriend?’ Jill asked, trying to sound nonchalant.
annoyed or disappointed, especially because things have not happened in the way that you wanteddisgruntled,_,The company has several disgruntled clients, which is not good for business.
used when talking about a situation in which the opposite of what you expected happens or is trueironically,_,Ironically, his cold got better on the last day of his holiday.
oddly enough is used to say that something seems strange or surprisingoddly enough,_,Oddly enough, someone asked me the same question only yesterday.
strangely or unusuallycuriously,_,Curiously, the results were better than we expected.
making you feel happier and more hopefuluplifting,_,It was an amazingly uplifting show and we came home feeling much happier.
a person or situation that stops you feeling happydowner,_,The weather was a bit of a downer.
the way you feel at a particular timemood,_,There was a general mood of depression in the office.
completely and onlypurely,_,The building was closed purely on the grounds of safety.
making you feel very saddepressing,_,The whole experience was very depressing.
the parts of a town or city that are furthest from the centreoutskirts,_,They live on the outskirts of Paris.
disappointed because you have lost your belief that someone is good, or that an idea is rightdisillusioned,_,As she grew older, Laura became increasingly disillusioned with politics.
a member of an all-male religious group that lives apart from other people in a monasterymonk,_,He left the world of high finance to become a monk.
a large number of people or thingsa host of,_,A host of show business celebrities have pledged their support.
not working properly, or not made correctlyfaulty,_,Customers may ask for a refund if the goods are faulty.
hard workhard graft,_,Our success has been due to sheer hard graft.
consecutive numbers or periods of time follow one after the other without any interruptionsconsecutive,_,It had rained for four consecutive days.
to make a great effort to achieve somethingstrive,_,I was still striving to be successful.
to make someone lose all hope, confidence etccrush,_,Their hopes and ambitions were crushed by his harsh words.
something that encourages you to work harder, start a new activity etcincentive,_,Awards provide an incentive for young people to improve their skills.
the upsetting or bad effect of a situationsting,_,She smiled to take the sting out of her words.
a remark that shows you admire someone or somethingcompliment,_,All the guests paid her extravagant compliments.
an animal or plant that lived many thousands of years ago and that has been preserved, or the shape of one of these animals or plants that has been preserved in rockfossil,_,The children picked up some tiny fossils from the beach.