ONE-WORD SUBSTITUTION
532. (4) famine incorrigible (Adj.) : having bad 543. (1) camouflage
famine (N.) : a lack of food dur- habits which canno t be camouflage (N.) : disguise ; con-
ing a long period of time in a re- changed/improved cealment ; pretence ; cover-up
gion unbeatable (Adj.) : impossible to infallible (Adj.) : never wrong
drought (N.) : a long period of defeat 544. (3) protocol
time when there is little or no 538. (1) credulous protocol (N.) : a system of fixed
rain credulous (Adj.) : ready to be- rules and formal behaviour used
poverty (N.) : the state of being lieve things and therefore easy at official meetings, usually be-
poor to trick ; gullible tween governments
533. (2) gingivitis credible (Adj.) : that can be be- formality (N.) : a thing that you
gingivitis (N.) : a condition in lieved/trusted must do as a formal/official part
which the gums arround the creditable (Adj.) : admirable; of a legal process, a social situa-
teeth become painful, red and praiseworthy tion, etc.
swollen credential (N.) : the qualities/ statesmanship (N.) : skill in
gangrene (N.) : the decay that training/experience that make managing state affairs
takes place in a part of the body you suitable to do something hierarchy (N.) : a system, in a
when the blood to it has been 539. (1) alimony society/an organisation, in which
stopped because of an illness/ people are organised into differ-
alimony (N.) : the money that a
injury ent levels of importance from
court orders somebody to pay to highest to lowest
conjunctivitis (N.) : an infec- his former wife or husband when
tious eye disease that causes 545. (4) cosmopolitan
the marriage is ended
pain and swelling in part of the cosmopolitan (Adj.) : contain-
parsimony (N.) : the fact of be-
eye ing people of different types/from
ing extremely unwilling to spend different countries, and influ-
orchitis (N.) : inflammation money
(swelling) of one or both testes enced by their culture
matrimony (N.) : marriage cosmocrat (N.) : ruler/leader of
534. (1) anonymous honoraium (N.) : a payment the whole world ; cosmocrator
anonymous (Adj.) : with a name made for somebody’s profession- cosmesis (N.) : the preservation,
that is not known/or that is not al services restoration or bestowing of bodily
made public 540. (2) fantasy beauty
acrimonious (Adj.) : angry and fantasy (N.) : a pleasant situa- cosmetician (N.) : one whose
full of strong bitter feelings and tion that you imagine but that is occupation is manufacturing,
words unlikely to happen selling or applying cosmetics.
audacious (Adj.) : willing to take whim (N.) : a sudden wish to 546. (2) nomads
risks/to do something shocking do/have something, especially nomads (N.) : community that
assiduous (Adj.) : working very when it is something unusual/ moves with its animals from
hard and taking great care that unnecessary place to place
everything is done as well as it fancy (N.) : fantasy ; whim barbarians (N.) : people who do
can be not belong to one of the great
memory (N.) : your ability to
535. (2) disaster remember things civilizations (Greek, Romar,
536. (3) incorrigible Christian)
541. (3) sonnet
incorrigible (Adj.) : having bad vagabonds (N.) : people who
sonnet (N.) : a poem that has
habits whi ch canno t be have no home/job and who trav-
14 lines, each containing 10 syl-
changed/improved el from place to place
lables, and a fixed pattern of
inveterate (Adj.) : done/felt for 547. (2) chauffeur
rhyme
a long time and unlikely to chauffeur (N.) : a person whose
ballad (N.) : a song/poem that
change (bad feeling/habit) job is to drive a car, especially
tells a story for somebody rich/important
glib (Adj.) : using words that are psalm (N.) : a song/poem/
clever, but are not sincere, and driver (N.) : a person who drives
prayer that praises God, espe- a vehicle
do not show much thought cially one in the Bible 548. (2) reminded
(speakers and speech)
carol (N.) : a Christian religious reminded (V.) : to help somebody
incongruous (Adj.) : strange, song sung at Christmas remember something
and not suitable in a particular
542. (2) unanimously remembered (V.) : to have/keep
situation
unanimously (Adv.) : by every- an image in your memory of an
537. (4) infallible event, a place, a person, etc.
one in a particular group
infallible (Adj.) : never wrong; from the past
equivocally (Adv.) : in an un-
never making mistakes reminisced (V.) : to think, talk/
clear/underfined manner
erroneous (Adj.) : not correct ; write about a happy time in your
vehemently (Adv.) : forcefully
based on wrong information past
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