The week’s C1 crossword — 5–11 October 2026
Weekly crossword — 5–11 October 2026
Tuesday, 13 October 2026
Warm-up
- Which new word from this week do you remember best?
- Which word was the hardest to understand when you first met it?
- Can you use three of this week’s words in one sentence?
Vocabulary
- advisory
- Giving advice or guidance, especially as an official group.
- alienate
- To make someone feel separated from or excluded from a group.
- forecast
- a prediction of future numbers based on current information
- investor
- a person or organisation that puts money into a business for profit
- endorse
- To publicly support or approve of something.
- revenue
- money a company earns from its normal sales and services
- verify
- To confirm that something is true or correct with evidence.
- discrepancy
- a difference between two numbers or reports that should match
- proprietary
- Owned and controlled by a private company, not openly shared.
- safeguard
- a rule or action that reduces risk or prevents harm
- valuation
- an estimate of how much a company is worth
- paradigm
- A model or pattern for how something should be done or understood.
- float
- to list a company on the stock market and sell its shares
- equitable
- Fair and equal for all people or groups.
Reading
This crossword revises the vocabulary from this week’s C1 lessons. The words all come from: OpenAI maths releases prompt access concerns; OpenAI cuts revenue outlook by $20bn. Every answer appeared in one of those lessons, and the number after each clue is the length of the answer.
Crossword
Week of 5–11 October 2026
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Discussion
- Which of this week’s stories would you most like to read more about?
- Which new word will you actually use outside class, and when?
- If you wrote next week’s crossword, which five words would you choose?
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