Cover of the textbook Speakout Advanced - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 1

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 4.4 - The con artist for the textbook Speakout Advanced - Students' Book with authors Antonia Clare and J. J. Wilson from Pearson Education

Question

Work with one students. What do the words in bold mean?

Answer

  1. mastermind → someone who organises a large, important, difficult operation
  2. conned → got money from someone by deceiving them
  3. fake → false but made to look real in order to deceive people
  4. provenance → the place where something originally came from
  5. forgeries → objects that have been copied illegally