English Quiz (Part 193)

'hostility' Meaning

• an occasion when someone is unfriendly or shows that they do not like something; an occasion when someone shows that they do not agree with or like something; (hostilities)fighting in a war

• having feelings that you do not express

• only interested in yourself and your own activities; so involved with yourself that you do not think about anyone else; self-centered

'self-absorbed' Meaning

• having feelings that you do not express

• an occasion when someone is unfriendly or shows that they do not like something; an occasion when someone shows that they do not agree with or like something; (hostilities)fighting in a war

• only interested in yourself and your own activities; so involved with yourself that you do not think about anyone else; self-centered

'repressed' Meaning

• (the bourgeoisie)the middle class (= the social group between the rich and the poor), especially the people thought to have a strong interest in supporting traditional customs and values; (in Marxism) the part of society, including employers and people who run large companies, that has most of the money and power which it gets from the work of ordinary people; the social group between the rich and the poor

• having feelings that you do not express

• the quality or condition of being inside someone's mind and not expressed to other people

'inwardness' Meaning

• (the bourgeoisie)the middle class (= the social group between the rich and the poor), especially the people thought to have a strong interest in supporting traditional customs and values; (in Marxism) the part of society, including employers and people who run large companies, that has most of the money and power which it gets from the work of ordinary people; the social group between the rich and the poor

• having good moral qualities and behaviour; A virtuous person thinks himself or herself morally better than other people

• the quality or condition of being inside someone's mind and not expressed to other people

'bourgeoisie' Meaning

• (the bourgeoisie)the middle class (= the social group between the rich and the poor), especially the people thought to have a strong interest in supporting traditional customs and values; (in Marxism) the part of society, including employers and people who run large companies, that has most of the money and power which it gets from the work of ordinary people; the social group between the rich and the poor

• the quality or condition of being inside someone's mind and not expressed to other people

• having good moral qualities and behaviour; A virtuous person thinks himself or herself morally better than other people

'virtuous' Meaning

• something that is allowed or given up, often in order to end a disagreement, or the act of allowing or giving this; the act of admitting defeat; a reduction in the usual price of something, made available to students, old people, etc.; a special right to property or land; permission to sell something, esp. in part of a store owned by someone else, or a business that sells something; a small business that is allowed to sell goods, food, or services on property owned by someone else, for example, inside an airport or a large store; official permission to carry out a particular type of business, or to own or do work on a particular piece of property or land, given by a government or company; a reduction for particular groups of people in the amount of money that has to be paid for something; the amount of money that an underwriter receives as payment when new shares are sold to the public for the first time

• having good moral qualities and behaviour; A virtuous person thinks himself or herself morally better than other people

• not done according to a plan but done at different times in different ways