Ask a friend to follow your plan If you are speaking in your English club or Learning Circle, ask one of yourfriends to note down phrases they notice you using to signpost your talk. Did they notice all the important points?Getting feedback like this from friends is one good way of finding ou[r]
11 elaborate, sumptuous12 woeful, melancholy13 intense, desperate15 amazing, massive16 cynical, scornfulChoose the word from the Vocabulary List that best fits into the crossword puzzle. You can check your answersat the end of the chapter following the answers to the questions.Vocabu[r]
fix, besides the one in today’s Vocabulary List.agrarian (ə·rer·e¯ ·ən)suffix: -ian means one who is or does(adj.)having to do with agriculture or farmingThe farmer loved his life.–VOCABULARY LIST 2: SUFFIXES–49NOUN ENDINGS SUFFIX MEANING EXAMPLES-tion act or state of ben[r]
exorbitant (ek·zor·bi·tənt)prefix: ex means out of, away from(adj.)going beyond what is reasonable and properThe cost of real estate in the big citiesforces many people to move to the suburbs.illegible (i·lej·ə·bəl)prefix: il means not, opposite(adj.)not able to be readBecause my handwriting is , I[r]
An acronym is a word formed from the initial letter or letters of each of the successive parts (or majorparts) of a compound term. The roots acr or acro mean beginning, thus, the adoption of the first let-ters of each word in a term work together to make a single new word: an acronym.In a way, unders[r]
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English Vocabulary Flash Cards @ englishpdf.com andenglishteststore.com File 014acrimony(n) Sharpness or bitterness of speechor temper.--------------------actionable(adj) Affording cause for instituting anaction, as trespass, slanderous words.--------------------ac[r]
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.—ARTHUR C. CLARKE, science fiction author (1917–)HyperIn the book The Rest of Us,by Stephen Birmingham, whichchronicles the achievements in America of certain famousRussian Jewish immigrants of the early twentieth century,there is a[r]
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11WORDS, WORDS, WORDS12and Kameenui (1991) express the same dilemma: “It was relativelyeasy to express what we know and don’t know about vocabularyacquisition and what works and does not work in vocabulary instruction. It was quite another matter to translate this knowled[r]
18 paradise19 the science of reasoningDown1 worn out by overuse, trite2 a quack3 official beliefs or teachingsof particular politics,philosophy, or religion5 unselfish concern for others8 theoretical idea or concept13 “all natural processes occurfor a reason”14 scholarly, learned15 subtle differences[r]
speech .incisive (in·s¯·siv)root: cis, cid mean to cut(adj.)penetrating, clear cutJournalistic writing should be andfactual.–VOCABULARY LIST 4: MORE ROOTS–77
but also in other countries.1) raises2) arouses3) arises4) rises11.We built a house, our son was hospitalized, our daughter went to aprivate college, and because we had to borrow money each time, ourdebts ___.1) mounted2) amounted3) upped4) raised12.Ms. Sackett, Mr. White's secretary, put an envelop[r]
Vocabulary tests to accompany the popular English Vocabulary in Use Elementary second edition. Test Your English Vocabulary in Use Elementary 2nd edition can be used on its own or with the companion volume English Vocabulary in Use Elementary 2nd edition. It is a handy book of tests covering the voc[r]
there is a perception of this variety as a standard.Given what we have said, we would predict that codifications ofAmerican English would begin late in the eighteenth or early in thenineteenth century, but that codifications of other national varieties ofEnglish would follow considerably later,[r]
entrepreneur (ann·trə·prə·nər)(noun)a person who takes on the challenge and risk ofstarting his or her own businessBeing a(n) is nerve-wracking becauseyou can never be certain that your idea will be ahit.epitome (i·pi·tə·me¯)(noun)an exact example of something; someone orsomething that embodies th[r]
12111014171518191613Choose the word from the Vocabulary List that best fits into the crossword puzzle. You can check your answersat the end of the chapter following the answers to the questions.Vocabulary List 10: Short Words That Mean a Lot acmeawrybanecitecruxdire[r]