Lessons 21-25 Flashcards
When a product isn’t longer available or produced
Discontinued
- To stop being involved in something or stop someone being involved in something.
- to become separate or not connected, or to cause this to happen
Disengage
- someone who is unable to read or write
illiterate
- (of behaviour or actions) not following the rules or what is expected
- not regular in shape or form. Ex: an ** coastline
- not happening at regular times
Irregular
- weapons, equipment or activities intended to destroy or defend against enemy aircraft.
Anti-aircraft
- after a war
post-war
- not of good quality
* below the usual or required standard.
substandard
When large numbers of educated and very skilled people leave their country to live and work in another one where pay and conditions are better
Ex: Due to the crisis, there has been a significant ** with skilled people moving from Spain to other European countries.
Brain drain
- invention or idea a renowned person has come up with
* an idea or invention which is considered to be a particular person’s creation.
brainchild
For example a sudoku is a **. It’s a game or puzzle where you have to think to come up with the solution.
- a problem or puzzle, usually designed to be solved for amusement.
Brainteaser
- to ask someone’s advice about a problem
- to ask someone’s advice about a subject the person knows a lot about.
Ex: - can I ** about how you got rid of those weeds?
- can I ** for a moment? I’m not clear what to do and I’d really like your opinion
pick somebody’s brains
- think very hard to find a solution to a difficult problem.
- make a great effort to think of or remember something.
rack your brains
Noun. The language used between people who do not share the same native
Ex: French was for some time the ** and many languages, including English, adopted ”loan words” much later in history
Lingua franca
Noun. Ordinary people, not members of the ruling Elite
Ex: The Elite were having parties in ball rooms whereas the ** were struggling to put food on the table
Commoners
Adverb. At the same time
Ex: She could do several things **.
Simultaneously
Adjective. Very important strong
Ex: The Norman conquest of England had a ** impact on the English language
Profound
- Adjective. Relating to a socio-economic system of relationship between peasants, who worked the land, and their lords, who owned the land.
- the relationship between the farmers/peasants who worked the land and their lords who owned the land
Ex: So, next time you order some roast beef or pork, think about the poor Anglo-Saxon peasants tending the cows and pigs of their Norman ** lord.
Feudal
Adverb. Approximately
Ex: In fact, English speakers are familiar with ** 15,000 French words, even before they start learning the language
Roughly
- verb. To come from another source
Ex: - The word ”sheep” comes from Old English sceap whereas the meat, ”mutton” is ** from the French mouton
- To get something from something else
Ex: - She ** great satisfaction from playing the violin.
- I didn’t ** much benefit from school
- to get or obtain something
Ex: the institute ** all its money from foreign investments
Derived
- verb. cared for, looked after
Ex: - The aristocracy, who spoke French, ate the meat while the commoners, who ** the animals, spoke English
- The farmer ** for his animals
tended
- noun. nobility, a class of people who hold a high status in society (dukes, earls, counts etc)
Ex: - William the Conqueror, as he became known, brought with him Norman French, which became the language of the **, government and the court for over three hundred years.
aristocracy
- adjective. equivalent, related
Ex: The ** word for the meat “beef” comes from French boeuf
corresponding
- the hundredth anniversary of a significant event or relating to a hundredth anniversary.
Ex: the ** year of the artist’s birth
centenary
- not clearly visible or attracting attention.
Ex: - an ** red-brick building
- she wore ** clothes.
- This type of bird is very ** because of its dull feathers.
inconspicuous
- disappointed and unhappy because of discovering the truth about something or someone that you liked or respected
- disappointed in someone or something that one discovers to be less good than one had believed
Ex: Don’t believe the hype surrounding this film, I was left totally **.
disillusioned
- move or fall downwards
Ex: I was disengaging with the plot early on as it ** into farce
descend
