Advanced Vocabulary and Idioms
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Pearson Education
NEW EDITION
Advanced
Vocabulary& Idiom
B j THOMAS
Introduction iv
Dictionary Practice 1
Topics City Life 4, Issues in Education 4, Fashion in Clothes 5, The Environment 5, Advertising 6, How Much Freedom Should Children Have? 6, Censorship 7, Love 7, Attitudes to Work and Leisure 8, The Purpose of State Punishment 8
Related Word Groups Body 9, Books 9, Dirt and Damage 11, Drinking 12, Driving 13, Food 14, Friends 16, Light 17, Materials 18, Money 19, Numbers 20, People 20, Small Quantities 21, Social Types 22, Sounds 23, Space Travel 25, Sport 26, Time 27, Tools and Equipment 27
Word Formation Word Forms 29, Prefixes 34, Suffixes 36, Compound Adjectives 38, Noun Plurals 39
Problem Words Confusing Word Pairs 40, Difficult Verb Pairs 44, Ambiguous Words 46, False Friends 46
Idiom Alliterative Expressions 51, Animals 52, Body 53, Collocations 54, Colour 55, Fictional Characters In Everyday Language 56, Food 57, 'Hand' 58, Names 59, Numbers 60, Pairs 61, Phrasal Verbs 62, Rhyming Expressions 64, Status 65, Time 66
Identification Objects 67, Newspaper Parts 68, The Arts 68, Occupations 69, Occasions 70
Description People's Appearance 72, Diagrams 73, Plans 74, Maps 76
Style Newspaper Headlines 78, Formal English 81, English in Advertising 83
Spoken English Forms of Spoken Address 85, Colloquial Responses 86, Exclamations 87, Spoken I'dumbers and Measurements 88, Well-known Spoken Phrases 89, Colloquial English and Slang 90, Popular Language 92
Miscellaneous Geo-political Names 94, Names and Tltles 95, Foreign Words and Phrases 97 Homophones 99, Abbreviations 100, Similes 101, Proverbs 102, Euphemism: Britain 104
Word Games 107 Key 108
common colloquial forms and will be especially useful for students who do not study in English-speakingcountries and therefore do not have the advantage of hearing this kind of language around them. The Miscellaneous section contains a variety of exercises: Geo-political Names will help students to understand newspapers and other mass media; Names and Titles and Abbreviations give practical information about everyday English usage; Foreign Words and Phrases, Proverbs and Euphemisms provide useful knowledge of commonly-used expressions. Word Games provide entertaining puzzles.
Use a good dictionary t o d o t h e following exercises. If you like, you can try t o d o them without help first, but check your answers i n a dictionary afterwards.
Pronunciation
1 In each three-word group below, circle t h e t w o words which have t h e
same-sounding underlined parts.
Examples: e.g.
daser
wan
a) w o r d swear w i t c h
b) q u a p l a s~ee C) OuQht colonel t h i d
d) bottle company flood
e) timber number climber
f) yacht c&t hot g) r k a d v h p r a c t k h) theatre those think i) &le &ISI date j) st= coat low
2 In each o f t h e four-word groups below, two words rhyme. Circle t h e
rhyming pairs.
Examples: @ great @ sit
face
@ pass
a) phone done gone shone b) story lorry worry hurry C) bomb comb some dome
f) show how rough though
g) bough tough stuff grow h) hard word third lord
d) saw owe go how e) hour four door throw
i) lose loose choose chose j) piece prize nice rise
Stress
Mark t h e stressed syllable in each w o r d below.
Examples: 'advertise
ad'vertisement inde'pendent
advise promise educate
guarantee central centralisation
necessary necessitate necessarily
'many
apostrophe economic economist
Spelling
Finish t h e spelling o f the words below w i t h t h e correct endings from those above each group.
1 -acy -asy -isy
democr- idiosyncr-
ecst-
conspir-
accurpriv-
fant-
obstin-
diplom- hypocr-
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