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Contextual Meaning

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Identify the correct meaning of the expression A hue and cry.

  • Unfair treatment
  • To have a personal stake or benefit in something
  • A loud public protest or strong complaint
  • Much better than others of the same type
Correct answer(s):
  • A loud public protest or strong complaint

What does the phrase A blot on the landscape mean in standard English?

  • To provide evidence or proof of something
  • Something ugly or unpleasant that spoils an otherwise attractive place
  • To return to the original position or situation
  • After taking all facts and circumstances into account
Correct answer(s):
  • Something ugly or unpleasant that spoils an otherwise attractive place

What idea is expressed by A last-ditch effort?

  • A decisive moment when an important change begins
  • A final desperate attempt to solve a problem or avoid failure
  • A clear practical example or warning
  • To apply influence or force to make someone act
Correct answer(s):
  • A final desperate attempt to solve a problem or avoid failure

Choose the correct meaning of A breach of trust.

  • To die or disappear like all living things
  • With general agreement
  • Briefly and without much detail
  • An act that breaks confidence, honesty, or responsibility
Correct answer(s):
  • An act that breaks confidence, honesty, or responsibility

Select the best explanation of A leap in the dark.

  • To emphasize a point strongly and repeatedly
  • To have power, control, or influence
  • A risky action taken without knowing the result
  • An unpleasant fact or result that is difficult to accept
  • To understand something after thought or investigation
Correct answer(s):
  • A risky action taken without knowing the result

In English grammar, how should A change of tack be understood?

  • To support or defend a person, idea, or cause
  • Very obvious or easy to understand
  • A change in method, plan, or direction
  • To suspend or postpone something temporarily
  • To discuss a point hypothetically
Correct answer(s):
  • A change in method, plan, or direction

Which answer explains A matter of principle correctly?

  • An issue based on a moral rule or firm belief
  • As an extra addition
  • To be abandoned, lost, or ignored
  • To fail completely or produce no result
Correct answer(s):
  • An issue based on a moral rule or firm belief

Which option gives the closest meaning of A checkered career?

  • To manage to speak when others are talking a lot
  • Automatically because no other choice is made
  • A career marked by both successes and failures or controversies
  • After taking all facts and circumstances into account
Correct answer(s):
  • A career marked by both successes and failures or controversies

Which meaning best matches the idiom A means to an end?

  • Fixed and not open to change
  • To harm or criticize someone who helps or supports you
  • Something done only to achieve a larger purpose
  • Automatically because no other choice is made
Correct answer(s):
  • Something done only to achieve a larger purpose

What does the idiom Put out usually mean?

  • to delay or stop progress
  • to understand how something is done
  • to extinguish something or stop it from burning
  • nervous or anxious
Correct answer(s):
  • to extinguish something or stop it from burning

Which choice shows the idiomatic meaning of Put up?

  • to provide a place for someone to stay
  • in serious difficulty or poor condition
  • to give special importance to something
  • having a friendly relationship
Correct answer(s):
  • to provide a place for someone to stay

Which answer best represents Read the room?

  • in a difficult situation with few choices
  • to establish the basic support for future success
  • the opposite is true
  • to understand the mood or situation around you
Correct answer(s):
  • to understand the mood or situation around you

How should a reader understand Rise and shine?

  • wake up and become active
  • before a particular time or event
  • to guide others or go first
  • very close to doing or experiencing something
Correct answer(s):
  • wake up and become active

Which choice gives the proper meaning of Run after?

  • to chase or pursue someone or something
  • altogether or as a total
  • to fail to take someone or something, or move ahead of them
  • complete or absolute
Correct answer(s):
  • to chase or pursue someone or something

What idea does Run away with express?

  • whatever happens or anyway
  • not to mention; even less
  • to win easily or take complete control of a contest
  • not able to be reached or obtained
Correct answer(s):
  • to win easily or take complete control of a contest

Which option has the same general meaning as Run short of?

  • to have too little of something
  • if something happens
  • to meet expectations or standards
  • slightly unwell or upset
Correct answer(s):
  • to have too little of something

Which answer gives the closest meaning of Set aside?

  • to reserve something for a special purpose
  • responsible for managing something
  • to think someone is inferior
  • in addition to something
Correct answer(s):
  • to reserve something for a special purpose

Which meaning fits the phrase Set in?

  • after some time has passed
  • to investigate or examine a problem
  • to begin and continue, especially something unpleasant
  • to be accepted as something or someone
Correct answer(s):
  • to begin and continue, especially something unpleasant

Choose the correct meaning of Set out.

  • to start a journey, task, or plan
  • at the proper time
  • to think about the hopeful part of a situation
  • to return money or repay a wrong
Correct answer(s):
  • to start a journey, task, or plan

Pick the option that best matches Set up.

  • supporting or approving something
  • to examine or read something quickly
  • to deliberately start an argument
  • to arrange, establish, or create something
Correct answer(s):
  • to arrange, establish, or create something