English Quiz (Part 30)

'Brittle' Meaning

• to express or show the most important facts about something

• making something less harmful, unpleasant, or bad; causing you to judge a crime to be less serious or to make the punishment less severe

• Delicate and easily broken; easily destroyed, ended, or made to fail; appearing to be happy or confident, but actually nervous, weak, or likely to change mood suddenly; A brittle voice or laugh sounds sharp and slightly nervous; hard toffee (= a type of sweet made from butter and sugar) that contains nuts

'Mitigating' Meaning

• making something less harmful, unpleasant, or bad; causing you to judge a crime to be less serious or to make the punishment less severe

• To express or show the most important facts about something

• extremely determined; never becoming weaker or admitting defeat

'Obstacle' Meaning

• Something that blocks you, so that movement, going forward, or action is prevented or made more difficult; something that blocks your way so that movement or progress is prevented or made more difficult

• To express or show the most important facts about something

• To get control or influence; to be common among a group of people or area at a particular time; to exist and be accepted among a large number of people, or to get a position of control and influence; to win in an argument, court case, etc.

'Encapsulate' Meaning

• unusual or special and therefore surprising and worth mentioning; unusual and surprising

• To express or show the most important facts about something

• extremely determined; never becoming weaker or admitting defeat

'Prevail' Meaning

• unusual or special and therefore surprising and worth mentioning; unusual and surprising

• extremely determined; never becoming weaker or admitting defeat

• To get control or influence; to be common among a group or area at a particular time; to exist and be accepted among a large number of people; or to get a position of control and influence; to win in an argument, court case, etc.

'Fundamental' Meaning

• Forming the base from which everything else develops; more important than anything else; being the most basic or most important thing on which other things depend; used to describe the basic causes of changes in the value of shares, etc., that relate to the condition of companies and the economy

• unusual or special and therefore surprising and worth mentioning; unusual and surprising

• extremely determined; never becoming weaker or admitting defeat

'Unrelenting' Meaning

• unusual or special and therefore surprising and worth mentioning; unusual and surprising

• to express or show the most important facts about something

• extremely determined; never becoming weaker or admitting defeat

'Remarkable' Meaning

• making something less harmful, unpleasant, or bad; causing you to judge a crime to be less serious or to make the punishment less severe

• unusual or special and therefore surprising and worth mentioning; unusual and surprising

• To express or show the most important facts about something