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  • DON'T ______ You know he cannot win the elections
    BACK the wrong horse
  • define: strike the right note
    say or do something in a way that that is very suitable for a particular audience or occasion.
  • Find a synonym: Readers of tabloids are less interested in politics and less likely to tune into INTELLECTUAL conversation
    highbrow
  • Find a synonym: Feminist organizations and the media appeared almost INCOMPREHENSIBLE to us.
    IMPENETRABLE
  • USE AN IDIOM:He'll _________ once I show him the sales figures for this quarter. I WAS RIGHT ALL THE TIME
    SWALLOW HIS WORDS
  • define:primitive
    very basic, simple or unsophisticated in terms of comfort, convenience, or efficiency
  • The police spent three months ________ on the murder investigation. The suspect they had in mind was far from being the murderer
    barking up the wrong tree
  • define: Get off on the wrong foot
    make a bad start at something, especially a task or relationship
  • Choose the synonym of "elaborate". (highbrow/intricate/impenetrable/whimsical)
    intricate
  • provide a synonym of fascinating
    intriguing
  • Find a synonym: Taylor's latest CD presents the listener with a CATCHY AND FASCINATING mixture of musical styles.
    INTRIGUING
  • define: backing the wrong horse
    making a wrong or inappropriate choice/choosing an unsuccessful alternative
  • define: fall by the wayside
    If someone falls by the wayside, they fail to finish an activity, and if something falls by the wayside, people stop doing it, making it, or using it
  • use an idiom:We ____ with the project the other day and it was my fault. Let's start again
    got off on the wrong foot
  • define: dreary
    depressingly dull and bleak or repetitive/uninteresting
  • define: barking up the wrong tree
    be pursuing a mistaken or misguided line of thought or course of action
  • Choose the idiom which means: "to describe exactly what is causing a situation or a problem/to be just right".
    to hit the nail on the head
  • What will you say if you have to admit that something you have said has been proved to be wrong.
    I have to swallow my words.
  • provide a synonym of captivating
    enchanting
  • use an idiom:The commercial _______ with its target audience, and was one of the most highly rated spots of the year.
    struk the right note
  • Find a synonym: He has a wonderful PECULIAR AND UNUSUAL sense of humour.
    WHIMSICAL
  • provide an antonym for highbrow
    lowbrow
  • define: whimsical
    playfully unusual or fanciful, especially in an appealing and amusing/ acting or behaving in a capricious mannerway.
  • provide the antonym of comprehensive, transparent
    impenetrable
  • define:be spot on
    completely accurate or correct
  • use an idiom:The entrance exam was so hard that many students___ before they even finished it.
    fell by the wayside
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