Vocabulary Flashcards
In no time = soon, quickly
only a matter of time.
at times = occasionally, sometimes.
as time goes by,
at one time or another = at unspecified time
a long time
Teresa May will BECOME the COUNTRY’s next PM.
Teresa’s May most _______________task:…
Visiting the _______________, PM promised a full investigation into how the two trains CAME TO BE on the same SINGLE TRACK.
__________________is still a major problem in India.
One State HAS proposed a _________________fat-tax of 14.5% (fourteen and a half percent).
pressing
scene
Malnutrition
so-called
Can you tell us what you want to be when you grow______?
I don’t think it’s a job that women would be interested _______.
I think women would be more _______________BEING a nurse.
I’m in charge _________this team.
I look ________________absolutely everything in here … we have a whole bunch of sharks and rays.
When I’m older, those little girls will have someone to look_____________to because that’s going to be me.
look up to somebody = admire
to be into doing something = to be interested in
The man is able to ____________ on what happened to the police.
He even has his own big comfy bed – and it’s not long before he’s ________________.
Nancy ___________________ the fact that Monks is Oliver’s half-brother and wants to kill Oliver in order to keep the whole inheritance.
shed light on = explain
out like a light = is asleep
brings to light = reveal a secret
US election: Melania Trump ______________Michele Obama.
Spot the difference: Trump’s wife ACCUSED OF __________Michelle Obama’s speech.
Melania Trump’s speech_________________to Michelle Obama’s in 2008.
Sian says that the car she bought recently is ______ .
If two people look a little bit alike, we can say they…
plagiarized
ripping off = copy or steal something.
accused of = need an ING after
a rip-off = the object stolen
bear striking similarity
bear similarity or bear resemblance = means have similarity, resemblance.
bear a faint resemblance.
I hope you don’t scare easily because today I’ve got a story that will_________________________ .
Quickly, the people __________ the house where the noise came from and ______________ the stairs.
A woman is on the courtyard below with blood __________ from a cut in her neck.
The police have never _________ something like this before.
He__________ the evidence – with all the possible scenarios_______________ his head – the strange voice, someone very cruel, no means of escape.
Dupin doesn’t want to ___________ of losing him so he advertises for the owner of a lost ape and manages to track him down and gets him to confess what happened on that tragic night.
He then ________________ taking the razor with him.
He sailor desperately __________ him but couldn’t catch him.
make your blood run cold
run into,
run up
running
run up against
runs through
running through
run the risk
ran away
ran after
repel
keep something away (for example: insects/water) by being unattractive or unpleasant to it
something/someone repels you
you find something/someone disgusting or unpleasant and want to stay away from it/them
deter
prevent/discourage someone from doing something by making it difficult or unpleasant for them to do it
a pun
a funny way of using a word so that more than one meaning is suggested
steer clear of
to avoid someone or something
So she’s the first woman to lead a major American political party towards the White House, ___________ a barrier that ________________ her eight years ago.
High winds and hot weather are causing difficulties for the 3,000 firefighters tackling the __________ in the south and centre of the state.
Scientists at Nottingham University say they are confident that cloned animals do not age _____________.
breaking through
eluded
blazes
prematurely
he story
With just four days until the start of the Olympic Games in Brazil, reports indicate that levels of pollution in Rio de Janeiro remain __________high.
Guanabara Bay, where sailing events will be held, is heavily polluted by raw _________ and chemicals. Research also suggests the authorities have failed in their promise to clean up Rio’s air quality.
Wyre Davies - BBC news
Cleaning up Rio’s chronically polluted waters was a promise that the city made when it was chosen to host the Olympic Games, but it simply hasn’t been kept.
We’re out now on Guanabara Bay, where Olympic sailing events will take place. The smell from the oil on the surface is overpowering and these are waters full of physical waste. Furniture, even dead animals, have been found in the water here.
But most of all it’s the ___________ from the favelas, and even the middle-class parts of town, that floods down into the bay, making this one of the world’s most polluted waterways.
alarmingly
sewage
sewage
alarmingly=worryingly
filthy=very dirty
This house is very filthy.
My shoes are a bit filthy! Maybe I should leave them outside.
sewage=waste water from toilets
teeming with=containing a large number of
It must be the school holidays; the beach ______ teenagers and kids.
unfazed=not surprised or worried
The Australian rowers are unfazed ______ the polluted water.
idiom: as cool as a cucumber
favelas=areas of cities in Brazil where housing is very poor
is teeming with
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