Vocabulary Task

conjecture	encroach	cache	dumbfound	diffident	gloat
butler	CCTV	darn	googly	inconsolable
clogged	sniffle	render	scope	rebuffed	usurer

1.       Everything we know is based on _____, on finding common strands in modern- day languages and tracing these strands to a hypothetical mother tongue, Proto-Indo – European, which may never even have existed.

2.       For the most part these were probably not great exoduses but rather gradual _____ as such each new generation sought new pastured and hunting grounds.

3.       Explorers at the turn of the century were astonished to find a _____ of Buddhist documents written in two related but unknown languages in what is now the Chinese province of Sinkiang, along the old Silk Road.

4.       The notion would have left them ______.

5.       I was already known as Silas Gyde the _____, and men had hardened their hearts against me.

6.       My _____ attempts to make friends were rebuffed.

7.       I _____ over my books of clippings.

8.       Are you the _____?

9.       My diffident attempts to make friends were ______.

10.   The on-board _____ cameras permit the pilots to see if there is a problem in the cabin without leaving the cockpit.

11.   He lives in a world of cute, fluffy things, which makes being funny- looking… pretty _____ hard.

12.   But nobody loves a slightly hairy, I suppose a bit _____ exed monster.

13.   The company is already so big that it has very little _____ for expansion.

14.   To _____ man in accessible to suffering would be to change his nature.

15.   The death of a beloved wife is the most _____ of evils.

16.   Divya has the ______.

17.   When these viruses get into your nose and throat, they give you a sore throat, or a headache, or a _____ nose – or even all three at the same time.