IELTS / CAMBRIDGE vocabulary, British English pronunciation.
Exercise 1
Panacea
a solution or remedy for all difficulties or diseases
aberration
a state or condition markedly different from the norm
acquiesce
agree or express agreement
alacrity
liveliness or eagerness
amiable
diffusing warmth and friendliness
Exercise 2
appease
make peace with
arcane
requiring secret or mysterious knowledge
avarice
reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth
brazen
unrestrained by convention or propriety
brusque
rudely abrupt or blunt in speech or manner