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Correct answer: To. “A party to a crime” means a person who is involved in it.
Background: “Party to” is a legal expression.
Did you know? A “third party” is someone not directly involved.
Memory trick: Party TO a crime.
Correct answer: Nonsense. Folderol means nonsense, just as benevolence means charity. Both pairs are synonyms.
Background: Folderol can also be spelled “falderal”.
Did you know? It is used for silly or worthless talk.
Memory trick: Folderol = nonsense.
Correct answer: Woods. A glade is an open space in woods, just as a moat surrounds a castle. Each pair shows a feature and its surroundings.
Background: A glade is a clear, open space in a forest.
Did you know? A moat is a deep ditch filled with water around a castle.
Memory trick: Glade in the woods.
Correct answer: Gentle. Truculent means aggressive and ready to fight, so “gentle” is the opposite.
Background: The word comes from the Latin truculentus, “fierce”.
Did you know? A truculent person is quarrelsome.
Memory trick: Truculent ↔ gentle.
Correct answer: Noun. “Honesty” names a quality, so it is a noun (and it is also the subject of the sentence).
Background: Abstract nouns name qualities or ideas, such as honesty or courage.
Did you know? A noun can be the subject or object depending on its position.
Memory trick: Honesty = abstract noun.
Correct answer: Are used to. “Be used to + -ing” means to be accustomed to something, so “are used to living” is correct.
Background: Compare “I used to live here” (past habit).
Did you know? “Used to” + base verb = past habit; “be used to” + -ing = accustomed.
Memory trick: Now accustomed → are used to.
Correct answer: Fragrant. Malodorous means foul-smelling, so “fragrant” (sweet-smelling) is its opposite.
Background: “Mal-” means bad, and “odorous” means smelling.
Did you know? The opposite can also be “aromatic”.
Memory trick: Mal = bad; opposite = fragrant.
Correct answer: When did your friends come?. In a past-tense question with “did”, the main verb stays in its base form: “When did your friends come?”
Background: The helping verb “did” already carries the past tense.
Did you know? The same rule applies to “Did he go?” (not “Did he went?”).
Memory trick: Did + base verb.
Correct answer: Could. In indirect speech with a past reporting verb, “can” changes to “could”.
Background: This tense change is called backshift.
Did you know? “Will” → “would”, “can” → “could”, “may” → “might”.
Memory trick: Can → could.
Correct answer: Home. The proverb is “Charity begins at home”, meaning we should first look after our own family.
Background: It suggests that kindness should start with those closest to us.
Did you know? People sometimes use it to say that family comes first.
Memory trick: Charity → home.
Correct answer: Adjective. “Heavy” describes the noun “table”, so it is an adjective.
Background: Adjectives describe nouns.
Did you know? “Is” is the verb in this sentence.
Memory trick: Describes a noun → adjective.
Correct answer: Solemn. Droll means amusing in an odd way, and “solemn” (serious) is its opposite.
Background: The word comes from the French drôle.
Did you know? A droll remark is a quietly funny one.
Memory trick: Droll ↔ solemn.
Correct answer: Dreads. The proverb is “A burnt child dreads the fire”, meaning a person who has suffered avoids the cause.
Background: It teaches that bad experiences make us careful.
Did you know? A similar saying is “Once bitten, twice shy”.
Memory trick: Burnt child → fears fire.
Correct answer: Consider. To smear is similar to libel (to defame), and to heed is similar to consider (to pay attention to). Both pairs are synonyms.
Background: In synonym analogies, both pairs of words have similar meanings.
Did you know? To heed advice means to pay attention to it.
Memory trick: Heed = pay attention = consider.
Correct answer: Hold. “Hold your horses” means wait or be patient.
Background: The idiom comes from the days of horse-drawn carriages and riding.
Did you know? It is used to tell someone to slow down.
Memory trick: Hold your horses = wait.
Correct answer: Hiatus. A lacuna is a gap or missing part, and “hiatus” also means a gap.
Background: The word comes from the Latin lacuna, “pit” or “gap”.
Did you know? A lacuna in a manuscript is a missing section.
Memory trick: Lacuna = gap.
Correct answer: Agreement. The proverb is “A lean agreement is better than a fat lawsuit”, meaning a quick settlement is better than a long legal fight.
Background: It encourages settling disputes out of court.
Did you know? A similar saying is “Better a bad settlement than a good lawsuit”.
Memory trick: Lean agreement > fat lawsuit.
Correct answer: The person to whom he sold the house was a fraud. Only this sentence has correct grammar, with the article “the” and “a” and the verb “sold” in the past tense.
Background: A sentence needs a subject, a verb, and correct articles.
Did you know? “To whom” is a prepositional phrase and must follow a noun here.
Memory trick: Choose the full, complete sentence.
Correct answer: Cramped. Commodious means roomy and spacious, so “cramped” is the opposite.
Background: The word comes from the Latin commodus, “convenient”.
Did you know? A commodious house has plenty of room.
Memory trick: Commodious = roomy; opposite = cramped.
Correct answer: Would have helped. This is a third conditional (unreal past), so the main clause takes “would have + past participle”.
Background: “Had he been” is the inverted form of “If he had been”.
Did you know? The third conditional talks about situations that did not happen.
Memory trick: Had + past participle → would have + past participle.
Correct answer: Will pass. This is a first conditional (real possibility), so the main clause takes “will + base verb”.
Background: A first conditional uses present simple in the “if” clause and “will” in the main clause.
Did you know? It describes a real, possible future situation.
Memory trick: If + present, will + verb.
Correct answer: Asad greeted Ali and asked him if he was going that day. “Hello” is reported with “greeted”, and the question is reported with “asked … if”, with “today” changing to “that day”.
Background: A yes/no question in indirect speech uses “if” or “whether”.
Did you know? Time words change: today → that day.
Memory trick: Hello → greeted; question → asked if.
Correct answer: Called off. “Called off” means cancelled.
Background: “Call off” is a phrasal verb.
Did you know? Matches can also be “abandoned” because of rain.
Memory trick: Called off = cancelled.
Correct answer: Frugal. Lavish means spending or giving freely, and “frugal” (careful with money) is the opposite.
Background: Lavish can also mean luxurious, as in a lavish party.
Did you know? Frugal comes from the Latin frux, meaning “fruit” or “value”.
Memory trick: Lavish ↔ frugal.
Correct answer: Ready to obey someone. To be at someone’s beck and call is to be always ready to obey their orders.
Background: A “beck” is a beckoning gesture.
Did you know? The idiom is often used when someone feels treated like a servant.
Memory trick: Beck and call = at your service.
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