Where would Scotland be without the English? Step 2 Vocabulary

1. [Match]

Can you guess the meanings of the words you will read or hear?

(Afloat – adj – financially viable
Freeloading living off the generosity or hospitality of others but giving nothing back
To live off someone – to depend on someone else (apart from yourself) for a source of income.

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Answers for Quiz [1].

• 1. I would be unable to live / work / survive / carry on without …….. (correct)
• 2. I have strong opinions about this topic which you might not want to hear. (correct)
• 3. a subject that someone talks about frequently, usually for a long time (correct)
• 4. to be no problem at all, because you have plenty of it (correct)
• 5. decline in economic or other activities (correct)
• 6. pay for something, often reluctantly (correct)
• 7. talk at length / excessively about, complain about) to the point that people get bored. (correct)
• 8. the UK Parliament (correct)
• 9. an exception to the usual rule (correct)
• 10. more than something is really worth (correct)
• 11. help a person or organization that is in difficulty, usually by giving or lending them money (correct)
• 12. idiom that describes an occupation or any lucrative endeavour that generates considerable income whilst requiring little effort and carrying little risk. It is also used of politics to denote a gorging on luxuries, since someone else foots the bill. (correct)
• 13. travel slowly and steadily while emitting a series of muffled explosive sounds typical of an engine (correct)
• 14. unjust, immoral (correct)
• 15. have enough money to pay what you owe (correct)
• 16. carried, taken on, supported (past participle of bear) (correct)
• 17. a worksheet, leaflet, or pamphlet that is given out (usually by hand) for a certain use; a gift to the poor or needy (correct)
• 18. use money, food, a room in a house, etc. given by other people, but giving nothing to them in exchange. (correct)
• 19. spend less money than you receive as income
  (correct)
• 20. spoken or written about in an abusive or disparaging manner (correct)