Vocabulary

Front 1

Adjacent

Back 1

Next to or very near to a specified location

Hint 1

This film may not technically qualify as horror, but it's certainly horror-adjacent.

Front 2

blow sth out of proportion

Back 2

To make sth seem more important or serious than it really is

Hint 2

Don't make a mountain out of a molehill

Front 3

be a far cry from

Back 3

Be very different from

Hint 3

The hotel's royal suite is a far cry from the poverty of his home country

Front 4

Malleable

Back 4

Easily changed into a new shape; easily influenced, trained or controlled

Hint 4

Lead and tin are malleable metals

Front 5

Forge

Back 5

To make or produce sth with difficulty

Hint 5

Baker had worked for months to forge a plan that both sides could accept.

Front 6

Gyration

Back 6

The act of turning around and around on a fixed point

Hint 6

He could make the car do all kinds of crazy gyrations.

Front 7

Rabble-rouser

Back 7

A person who makes a group of people angry, excited, or violent (such as by giving speeches) especially in order to achieve political goals

Hint 7

He is a rabble-rouser and complainer.

Front 8

Renegade

Back 8

A person who has changed their feelings of support and duty from one political, religious, national, etc. group to a new one

Hint 8

A band of renegades had captured the prince and were holding him to ransom.

Front 9

Prism

Back 9

A block of clear glass or plastic which separates the light passing through it into different colors. If you see sth through a prism of sth, ex. time or memory, your idea of it is affected by that thing.

Hint 9

Through the smoky prism of time, I could barely make out my father as a young man.

Front 10

Preach

Back 10

1. Try to persuade other people to accept the belief or to take the course of action.

2. Give advices in a very serious and boring way.

Hint 10

1. Health experts are now preaching that even a little exercise is far better than none at all.

2. He's a pain - he's always preaching about the virtues of working hard and getting up early.

Front 11

Social cohesion

Back 11

If there is cohesion within a society, organisation or group, the different members fit together well and form a united whole.

Hint 11

State action could reduce inequality and enhance social cohesion.

Front 12

Grievance

Back 12

If you have a grievance about sth that has happened or been done, you believe that it was unfair.

Hint 12

One of the key grievances expressed by the groups is the extended residence time required for permanent residency and citizenship.

Front 13

Detrimental effect

Back 13

Harmful or damaging effect on sth

Hint 13

A financial imbalance in the country has a detrimental effect on all aspects of economic and social life.

Front 14

Constipation

Back 14

A condition which makes s.o unable to empty their bowels as often as they should.

Hint 14

Taking high doses of iron can cause constipation.

Front 15

Ethnocentrism

Back 15

To judge another culture based on the standard of one's own culture instead of the standard of the other particular culture involved. The belief that the people, customs, and traditions of your own race or country are better than those of other races or countries.

Hint 15

His observations were coloured by ethnocentrism and ignorance.