Answers

1. artifice

over-friendly – [A] greeting clever trick. was actually Arnoldo’s an artifice to conceal his evil intentions.

2. wily – [C] crafty and cunning. Suzanne came up with a wily scheme to outwit her rival.

3. ulterior – [A] beyond what is openly revealed. Pat’s fawning demeanour concealed her ulterior motive, which was to break up her friend’s marriage.

4. camouflage – [B] disguise that blends with the surroundings. The covering of leaves served as camouflage for the hideout.

5. clairaudience – [A] faculty of hearing what is inaudible. Josh claimed his clairaudience allowed him to listen to far-off conversations.

6. steganography – [C] hiding a message within another message. Using the first letter of each sentence to spell her location, Alicia’s email was a good example of steganography.

7. ambuscade – [C] ambush. The rebels’ ambuscade at the palace put government forces on high alert.

8. incognito – [A] with one’s identity concealed. Tired of attention, the prince preferred to travel incognito.

9. sleight – [B] use of dexterity and

cunning. Salma’s sleight It was of hard hand to as detect she was such a good magician.

10. illuminati – [A] people claiming to have special enlightenment. Members of the illuminati arrived for the ritual with solemn expressions.

11. runic – [B] to do with an ancient alphabet. We wondered what magical secrets were recorded in the runic inscription.

12. equivocal – [B] ambiguous. Khalid’s responses were equivocal, so that no one knew whether he liked his birthday gift or not.

13. surreptitious – [A] done secretly. Fabien remained aware of his mother’s decline through surreptitious phone calls from his brother.

14. duplicity – [A] double-dealing with intent to deceive. The con man’s genial nature masked duplicity that tricked the family out of their inheritance.

15. argot – [C] vocabulary of a particular group. The gang members communicated with each other in their own unique argot.