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UNIT 1 Learning (Glossary box) Flashcards

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Foreign

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From a country that is not your own ( A person is a foreigner)

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Gist

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SING The gist of something is the general meaning but not all the details

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Text

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The written part of a book, newspaper, etc

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Recognize

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know what somebody is or what something is because you have seen or heard

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go through

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Read something carefully from beginning to end

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Identify

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Recognize something and decide what it is

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Guess

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Give an answer to something without being sure of the facts

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Context

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The words before and after the new word phrase that help you to understand the meaning

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Keep a record

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Write something down to help you remember it

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Make a note

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Write something down down quickly to help you remember it

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Construction

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The way words are used together in a sentence

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translation

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A text that has been changed from one language to another

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13
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Repeat

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say something again

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Explain

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Make something clear or easy to understand

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Pronounce

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Make a sound of a word or a letter

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Opportunity

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A time when it is possible to do something that you want to do

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Experiment with

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Try something to see what the result it has

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Make mistakes

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Not X do mistakes X

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19
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Revise

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Study something again

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Method

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A way of doing something

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Work

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Get or have the results you want

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Enthusiastic

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Very interested in something or excited by it

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Motivated

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you want to do something - A strong desire to so something

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After a while

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After a period of time

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Improve

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Become better - get better - make progress

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Express something ( sth )

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Say or show what you think or feel

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Effectively

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In a way that gives you the result you want

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Obvious

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Easily seen and understood - clear

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Encouraging

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It gives you hope and makes you want to continue

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Accurately

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With no mistakes

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Be aware of something (sth)

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You know about something

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Frustrating

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Making you annoyed because you can not do something you want to do

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Goal

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A thing you want to be able to do in the future - to achieve

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Everyday

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Normal or usual

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Expand

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Become bigger or make something bigger

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A wide range

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A large number of different things

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Complex

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Not simple; often difficult to understand

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fluent

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Being able - the ability to speak a foreign language easily and well

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In detail

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Fully and including a lot of information

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Appropriate

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Right or suitable in a particular situation

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Relevant to something (sth)

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Useful for and connected to something (sth)

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specialized

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Having or needing a lot of special knowledge

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Definition

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An exact statement of what a word or phrase means. (Devine) V

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Avoid doing something (sth)

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You try not to do or experience it

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idiom

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A group of words whose meaning is different from the meaning of the individual words (Also expression)

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Entry

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One of a list of items included in a dictionary

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Provide something (sth)

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Give something (sth) to somebody (sb) , or make something (sth) available for somebody (sb)

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Style

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The way something (sth) written or spoken ( e.g. an informal style, a formal style).

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Slang

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Very informal words or phrases used in spoken language ( Between close friends )

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Offensive

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Rude and likely to upset somebody (sb) ( To offend somebody)

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symbol

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A letter, number or a sign that has a particular meaning

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Syllable

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A part of word which contains a vowel sound

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Relate something (sth) to something (sth)

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Connect something (sth) to something (sth) ( Related)

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Build something (sth)

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Make something (sth) bigger; increase something (sth)

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Select something (sth)

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Select is more formal ( Choose sth (SYN) )

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Abbreviation

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A short form of a word (e.g. a.m is an abbreviation meaning in the morning

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Capital letter / Small letter

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A B C / a b c

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Pause

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A short period of time when somebody (sb) stops talking

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Separate Somebody(sb) Something(sth)

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Keep people or things away from each other ( Devide (SYN) )

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List

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A series of names, items or numbers (e.g. a shopping list, a list of countries)

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Omit something (sth) (FML)

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if you Omit (sth) means , you don’t want to include it. ( Leave something out (SYN)

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Interrupt something (sth)

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Occur in the middle of something (sth) and stop it continuing

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Details

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Small pieces of information about something (sth)

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Instead of somebody/something (sb/sth)

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In the place of somebody/something (sb/Sth)

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Connect something (sth)

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Put two or more things together ( join something (sth) )

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Such as

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You use Such as to introduce an example ( Like (SYN) )

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Alternative

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One of two or more things that you can choose between

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