Grey VC Compilation 11

There's a real mixed bag of people taking the class

• blended

• varied

• merged

• mixed

Answer explanation

(situation) involve a variety of things (good/bad)

The police encouraged the criminal to ... with them about the crime

• even

• equal

• level

• flat

Answer explanation

[infm] be frank/ honest w so

HE'd been drinking the night before and was looking a bit ...

• scrawny

• haggard

• puerile

• officious

Answer explanation

HAGGARD: looking ill or tired, often with dark skin under the eyes

SCRAWNY: unpleasantly thin, often with bones showing

PUERILE [dis] behaving in a silly way, not like an adult

Our team was doing well for a while, but they got tired and then the .. fell off

• spirits

• moods

• attitudes

• wheels

Answer explanation

so/ st fails suddenly + unexpectedly

This new project will take us into ... territory

• unknown

• undiscovered

• untapped

• uncharted

Answer explanation

An uncharted area has not had a map made of it and has not been described

• - completely new and not previously described or experienced, and therefore possibly difficult to deal with

You're ... a dead horse trying to to persuade Kim to move house again

• directing

• demanding

• inciting

• flogging

Answer explanation

waste effort on st -> unlikely to succeed

Everyone thought the test was a ...

• air

• current

• breeze

• gust

Answer explanation

[infm] st-> easy to achieve (often unexpectedly)

My grandpa said he would pay for me to go to college and he made ... on that promise

• perfect

• useful

• true

• good

Answer explanation

do what u've said u would do

I had very little info about the company, so writing to them was a ... in the dark

• jump

• bound

• dash

• leap

Answer explanation

st u do without certainty what will happen

I think the senator will be licking his .... for a while after that disastrous debate performance

• wounds

• bruises

• pains

• injuries

Answer explanation

spend tie getting back your strength/ happiness after a defeat/ bad experience