English Quiz (The Millionaire Fastlane) Part 16

'permutation' Meaning

• someone whose job is to drive a car for a rich or important person; to drive someone somewhere; a person employed to drive a private car belonging to someone else

• any of the various ways in which a set of things can be ordered; one of several different forms; a bet (= an amount of money risked on the result of an event) that involves a number of choices so that you could win in more than one situation; any of the various arrangements in which a set of objects can be organized

• one of the parts that a substance or combination is made of; a voter (= person who can vote) in a particular area of the country; a person represented by an elected official

'chauffeur' Meaning

• someone whose job is to drive a car for a rich or important person; to drive someone somewhere; a person employed to drive a private car belonging to someone else

• one of the parts that a substance or combination is made of; a voter (= person who can vote) in a particular area of the country; a person represented by an elected official

• any of the various ways in which a set of things can be ordered; one of several different forms; a bet (= an amount of money risked on the result of an event) that involves a number of choices so that you could win in more than one situation; any of the various arrangements in which a set of objects can be organized

'consecutive' Meaning

• not likely to happen or be true; not likely to be true or to happen; not probable

• Consecutive events, numbers, etc. follow one after another without an interruption; following one after another without an interruption

• certain or extremely likely to happen; (be bound and determined)to be seriously intending to do something;  (I’ll be bound)I am certain; having a moral or legal duty to do something; tied with rope, cord, string, etc; (of a book) having a cover made of paper, leather, or other material; going to; to move quickly with large jumping movements; to mark or form the limits of; (bounds)legal or social limits; (causing people to be) unable to leave a place because of an unwanted condition

'improbable' Meaning

• not likely to happen or be true; not likely to be true or to happen; not probable

• certain or extremely likely to happen; (be bound and determined)to be seriously intending to do something;  (I’ll be bound)I am certain; having a moral or legal duty to do something; tied with rope, cord, string, etc; (of a book) having a cover made of paper, leather, or other material; going to; to move quickly with large jumping movements; to mark or form the limits of; (bounds)legal or social limits; (causing people to be) unable to leave a place because of an unwanted condition

• Consecutive events, numbers, etc. follow one after another without an interruption; following one after another without an interruption

'bound' Meaning

• to cut open something, especially a dead body or a plant, and study its structure; to examine or consider something in detail

• (in lieu (of))instead (of); until an amount of money is paid to prove that a person charged with a crime will not try to leave the country

• certain or extremely likely to happen; (be bound and determined)to be seriously intending to do something;  (I’ll be bound)I am certain; having a moral or legal duty to do something; tied with rope, cord, string, etc; (of a book) having a cover made of paper, leather, or other material; going to; to move quickly with large jumping movements; to mark or form the limits of; (bounds)legal or social limits; (causing people to be) unable to leave a place because of an unwanted condition

'dissect' Meaning

• to cut open something, especially a dead body or a plant, and study its structure; to examine or consider something in detail

• (in lieu (of))instead (of); until an amount of money is paid to prove that a person charged with a crime will not try to leave the country

• used to refer to an event, usually something unpleasant or unwanted, that is going to happen soon