women in power lindybeige Advanced week 8

"I'm going to have to paint with broad strokes."

What does the idiom 'paint with broad strokes' mean?

• describe it in general terms, without providing many details

• describe something as a painting

• talk about artwork

• to give a colourful description of something

"The perils of childbirth are often exaggerated."

What does 'exaggerated' mean?

• too much

• making something more than it really was

• telling a lie about a specific event

• saying something is not important

"And in wars and so forth, the did almost all the dying bit."

What does the phrase 'and so forth' mean?

• and other similar things

• and moving forward

• and the opposite

• and this is the reason

"Most of the time the people using it are being impertinent, annoying and tiresome and I wish they'd stop."

What does the word 'impertinent' mean?

• irritating

• boring

• disrespectful

• stubborn

"There is a male bias towards history."

What does the word 'bias' mean?

• thinking women are better than men

• thinking men are better than women

• a feeling that something is wrong

• a prejudice for or against something

"Many people when talking about women in the past point to the exceptions like Elizabeth I."

What does the word 'exception' mean?

• someone very powerful

• something that doesn't follow the general rule

• a bad example

• an argument that is not logical

"There are are amazing rags to riches stories, like the slave girl of the Harem becoming de-facto ruler of the Ottoman Empire..."

What does the idiom 'rags to riches' mean?

• someone very poor becoming rich and successful

• someone very rich dressing up in poor clothing

• someone very poor dressing up in rich clothing

• someone very rich becoming poor and losing everything

"Both these women were almost certainly pawns of other people's ambition."

What does the word 'pawn' mean?

• a powerless person used by other people

• a game where the winner takes everything

• a type of seafood

• someone who acts selfishly to get what they want

"Both of them came to sticky ends after becoming famous."

What does the idiom 'come to a sticky ends' mean?

• for your own actions to cause yourself disaster or death

• to become temporarily successful

• to be forgotten after being briefly famous

• to get lost in the woods

"The often neglected strand of what the women were doing."

"What does the word 'neglected' mean?

• to be abused or lied about

• to not receive enough attention or care

• to be insulted or called bad names

• to be famous for doing bad things